Archive for September 2009

Providing content – somewhat painlessly

the Lisa Barone Way: Quick And Painless Content Ideas For Your Site
Now, I seldom have a problem coming up with things to talk about (most of which, truth be told, are of little to no value to anyone else! but that’s okay too….)  And I don’t have a “brand” to market, so that’s not why [...]

Doctors’ offices, scheduling, and rescheduling

I have a major difficulty with the way these things work these days.  First thing:  if I tell the appointments clerk that I need to set appointments on Tuesdays as early as possible in the morning, I do NOT expect her to say, “We can see you on Thursday at 3pm”.  I expect her to [...]

Darn plugin authors

who don’t bother to state anywhere that if you upgrade the plugin you MUST reconfigure the settings or you’ll get “divide by zero” errors….
/grrr

“… no sense of proportion…”

Skunks.  I’m assuming that they were a joke mom nature foisted on some unrepentant cavemen – a joke she forgot to erase and which have since managed to take over the world.
We have to have a pest repeller (the electronic variety) up on the back fence to keep them away from the area and out [...]

Where there’s smoke

in this case, there is NOT fire, thankfully.  We have a large amount of drift smoke from California again.  My allergies don’t like it….