Going Postal

In more ways than one. I brought the style of the Post Office Galleries in line with the rest of the site. No need to visit them as there is nothing new there. Hard to believe that it has been about a year since I took any Post Office pictures. I stopped because the site that was the impetus for the pictures never even included any of the 15 pictures I sent them. Wasn’t just me, they never did do any updating at all. I kept at it, but have now run out of day trip Post Offices. Any others would require a more serious commitment. Maybe sometime in the future…

The Mozilla bug that causes partial page loading rears it’s ugly head in the PO Galleries in spite of my making sure the images have size numbers. (It probably isn’t a bug, so much as my ham-fisted coding, but whatever.)

But if you didn’t take yesterday’s hint, go visit the Miata Gallery as I did add 4 new pictures.

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Now What?

I finished making the Miata Gallery look like the rest of the site today. For whatever reason when sequentially running thru the large images in Mozilla it will load like half the image and stop. Hit refresh and it displays the whole page, but very annoying.

<UPDATE>
I think I fixed the Mozilla problem. I added the height and width attributes to all the images.
</UPDATE>

Next step, the Post Office Gallery(s).

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Stay Away

A senior citizen in Florida bought a brand new Mercedes convertible. He took off down the road, flooring it to 80 mph and enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left on his head. “This is great,” he thought as he roared on down I-75. He pushed the pedal to the metal even more.

Then he looked in his rear view mirror and saw a highway patrol trooper behind him, blue lights flashing and siren blaring. “I can get away from him with no problem,” thought the man and he tromped on it some more, and flew down the road at over 100 mph. Then 110, 120mph. Then he thought, “What am I doing? I’m too old for this kind of thing.” He pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the trooper to catch up with him.

The trooper pulled in behind the Mercedes, and walked up to the man. “Sir,” he said, looking at his watch. “My shift ends in 30 minutes and today is Friday. If you can give me any reason why you were speeding, that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go.”

The man looked at the trooper and said, “Years ago my wife ran off with a Florida State trooper, and I thought you were bringing her back.”

The trooper replied, “Sir, have a nice day!”

db Failure

Had a little issue with my blog’s database. I successfully exported my entries, so I had a good back-up. I deleted the db and made a new one. While I was at it I uploaded a fresh install of MT. Trouble started when I went to initialize Movable Type. I kept getting a database error. After monkeying with it for about an hour, in frustration I wrote a “help me” post on the MT Support Forums. So far no help. Doesn’t matter as I figured out the problem all on my own. The previous install was set to dynamically publish and to do so meant you had to add a bit of code to your htaccess file. I’m not sure why that code would interfere with creating tables in an SQL database, but when I removed it I could then initialize MT. Now that we are up and running, I’ll go back later and add the code back, so I can dynamically publish again.

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Side Maker Lights

I only did the rear side marker light mod today at tech day. I decided against the blinking side markers because, at least for the rears and maybe the fronts, if you make them turn signal indicators they would lose the parking/running light ability, which is what I really wanted.

Today’s Tech Day could have been called Electrical Tech Day as most of the work done was to the wiring of the cars. I did the side marker thing, 2 folks added air horns and two folks did the power window switch repairs. One member took the discarded stock horn from an’04 with new air horns and added it to their existing stock ’90 to double their noise value for free.

I guess I’ll go add the $8.46 I spent on parts to the BTR Equipment Package list.

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