Under the new moon, I updated two pieces of software, routine computer maintenance, I suppose.
In the middle of one update, Pa Wetzel rings me up to alert me to the fact that he and his wife (“your Mother”) were in a motel in Amarillo, as they were making their way westward for the summer. We chatted for a few minutes, hence my excuse as I neglected one step in the update.
What’s worse? The software itself is clever enough to run, albeit in a slightly hobbled state. In fact, it worked just fine except that Tuesday morning, I couldn’t post a new entry.
I had to go back to the beginning, and read through the whole instruction sheet, only to discover there was one step I didn’t complete.
Netscape, or my unofficial laconic title, “netscrape,” also had a new update. That brings my browser list to four. I’d completely toss MS Exploder, except that at least two business pages I frequent, the secure layer won’t work except in IE 5.
I haven’t had a chance yet to test netscrape on dial up, but that’ll make an interesting switch.
Web site stats:
What was so nice to see, not that I wish ill on any company, but that the stats suggest a strong drop in AOL readership. 18 months ago? AOL was 40% of the traffic.
The other interesting tidbit gleaned from those stats?
“I am away from the office for Canada Day and returning Wednesday, July 2nd.”
One of the 2% crowd, that Canadian ISP. That’s weird. Weirder than weird. I can’t understand what a resourceful Canadian would see in Texas astrology.
This just shows that I’ve got one of the least linked sites anywhere.
