Where’s Phil
July 3, 2009
No, this isn’t some “Where’s Waldo” knock-off…this is my trying to explain where I’ve been rather than posting. It’s not quite as simple as it sounds, unfortunately, but it’s not all that hard, either.
First, I’m in linux-land, having given Vista the final heave-ho after Vista’s inability to access anything on the hard drive in under 10 minutes. This is only a slight exaggeration. The net result of this, however, is that I no longer use LiveWriter, possibly the only useful application MS currently gives away. It’s certainly more useful than those applications they offer for which you have to pay… At any rate, that has slowed my ability to churn out bloggy stuff in a timely fashion mainly because I like to cross post between two blogs and maintain all three from one program. I have yet to find a program for linux that will allow me to do this and, as yet, CrossOffice and Wine refuse to install LiveWriter… Ugh. So, I’m currently looking for a good alternative and contemplating whether I simply wish to install LiveWriter into the XP virtual machine I’m running via Sun’s VirtualBox, and use that. It seems a little convoluted and out the way, but if that’s what I have to do…
Reason #2 for the slowdown is the ramp-up of Operation:MovingOut. Yeah, nothing completely derails your everyday existence like packing all your worldly belongings (or as much as you feel like taking) and hefting it across country. Thankfully, we got movers, through my wife’s work, that will be doing most of the schlepping. That said, Frankenstein (the other linux box) is in boxes, the scanner’s in boxes, all the kitchen stuff has been relegated to boxes…it’s nuts. SO, not a whole lot of time to blog — that’s what I’m trying to say. I guess part of that is that my definition of blog isn’t “short missive to keep someone up to date on the goings on in my life.” That’s a “Tweet,” now isn’t it? No, I like paragraph form, and I like “Story Time with Phil.” So, short story long — if I can’t sit down and write a long post, I’m probably not going to bother…
As a complete side note — whomever decided that three waves of loud-ass technology needed to be sent by the open windows at 7:45am, needs to be soundly beaten with a fish. First the mower, then the weed-eaters and now the leaf blower…really? 7:45am? REALLY? Glad I was already up, or I’d be salty as opposed to simply offended and trying not to breathe in the noxious fumes contaminating an otherwise sumptuous morning.
