Laurabelle’s Blog

Y'all are probably taken aback when my page styles shift all of a sudden. So am I, even though I programmed the whole thing. The styles are supposed to be seasonal, but it seems like just as soon as I get used to one color scheme, it changes on me. The holiday themes are especially [...]

As I said in my last post on Movable Type:
I am moving my blog to WordPress and to http://blog.niceperson.org/. I haven’t quite figured out how to do the redirects automagically yet, but I’ll figure something out. In the meantime, please update your links and bookmarks.
I’m not completely sure what I’m going to do with the [...]

I didn't pay all that much attention to Hurricane Katrina last week. She was a Category 1 for a few days (Florida got off relatively lightly this time), and as late as Monday it looked like New Orleans had been lucky. Floods are the Biblical natural disaster, but God had help in New Orleans this week. [...]

Jeff and I hiked to Upper Lena Lake on August 20-22, sort of on a whim. I say sort of because Jeff had wanted to make this trip for a while. On the other hand, this specific trip was not planned more than about 2 days in advance, and I hadn’t yet found our hiking [...]

I still don't believe it, but my recent ex-landlord, Pete, died last Monday. It was not unexpected (as his son Mike said of Pete's heart attack last year), but it was too sudden for me. Something in me just can't accept that Pete's not upstairs taking a nap. It turns out that Pete's health was always [...]

I feel Really Stupid. You see, when I started using 2.6 kernels (currently 2.6.11), I also started getting told ide-scsi is deprecated, use ide-cd instead when I burned CDs. Eventually I decided to do something about it and left ide-scsi out of my kernel. Well, after that I couldn't manage to burn a CD, and even when [...]

I am typing this blog entry from the apartment that Jeff and I moved into just this week. Last night was our first in the new apartment, and it was lovely, although we almost slept on the floor instead of making up the bed. We were certainly tired enough. That reminds me, I need to get [...]