My New Cell Phone

When I accidentally dropped my phone into a storm drain last spring, I had a decision to make. I had been carrying insurance on the phone so I thought it would be simple to just get a free replacement – Hah! The phone was a Verizon Pre Plus running webOS ‘Meta-Doctor’ version 2.1. I’d had [...]

Taking A Walk

I decided to take a walk this morning, even though the weather was threatening.  I was thinking about dad. One of the last things that he could really take pleasure in was taking a walk through the neighborhood. I was remembering him as I walked our familiar route.

On the walk, with the cold spring wind [...]

Virtually Complete

As I said in my last post,  my next step in my Web Server transformation process would be to use Oracle’s Virtualbox software to install a trial run of Ubuntu Server so I could better familiarize myself with the in’s and out’s  of both Ubuntu and Apache 2 Webserver. My only previous experience with serving [...]

Forging Ahead

The thing about trying to figure out who you are after spending years and years with someone with dementia is that you first of all need to try and remember who you were. That isn’t as easy as it seems like it should be.  Maybe it’s just because I have never been someone who always [...]

If it ain't broke. . .

Even though my web servers are clicking right along, I feel wrong not running an Apache web server instead of IIS.  But every time I try to make the switch, I run into some headache or another that gets me all worked up and I want to give up.

I’ve spent all day today messing around [...]