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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New Look, Same Ol’ Stuff

Well, what do you think? Something is still screwed up with daily archive pages. In the monthly calendar that appears there the daily links all want to lead to a certain date in January that doesn’t exist. The category and monthly archives seem fine. Maybe I should just go back to individual entries as my primary archive and just chuck out the whole daily bit. Then again maybe it is time to export all my entries and do a fresh MT install. That is a lot more work, but what else do I have to do with my life? 🙂

Almost

Almost ready to move to the new site design, just a few back end things to take care of, Comment Preview Page, some of my Info Pop-Ups, etc. have to be finished. Maybe tomorrow night.

Tomorrow during the day is the Master’s Miata Club Tech Day and my project/mod for the day is to make the rear side markers working lights. And I’m feeling ambitious I might go ahead and turn them and the fronts into turn signal repeaters.

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I hate CSS & Mozilla. And IE While I’m At It.

I’ve got the layout of the new front page done, using Plan B. But In Mozilla at random times there appears a 1 pixel line underneath one of the rounded corner blocks. Ugh, like having an ink stain at the bottom of your dress shirt pocket. It is not there in IE!?! IE does wrap the Powered by Movable Type 3.121 to two lines, while Firefox fits it all on one. Oh, well, I’m sure the hate is there because I’m not smart enough to figure out just where I went wrong. It is probably simple too…

Begin Update
I got rid of the 1 pixel ink stain. Don’t ask me why, but as soon as I removed one of the links and it didn’t matter which one, it was gone. Nine links, good, ten, bad. Wonder if 11 would be ok?
End Update

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