Heriz-Smith

On Sunday I helped a friend treat her bees with oxalic acid. I also cut two homasote covers to go over the inner cover and absorb moisture during the winter. Both colonies seemed strong and healthy.

Boy, today was a long one. I’ve found, in the past, that if I’m upgrading a machine from one version of Mac OS X to another, 4 hours is about average. I don’t mean a simple upgrade where we just stick in the CD and upgrade the existing install. This time includes backing everything up, reformatting the drive and then doing a fresh install. Or - perhaps, doing an archive and install - but then setting up printers, scanners, etc. And when that is finished, sitting with the client and making them feel comfortable with the new operating system. Today I did four machines. One I backed up and reformatted, the others I did Archive and Installs. And then three of the machines got Quickbook updates (or installs) and two of them got iLife. This took just about 8 hours - the last two hours were getting the sharing worked out and figuring out some weird printer stuff. Anyway… long day.

Cold Frames

Garden by house

Cream Separator

Fritillaria

This is really just another test of the iPhoto Wordpress plugin - seeing how it deals with multiple images. It is amazing to me though how much changes here in a year.

The first is of the cold frames, just after I’d moved them. The second is the garden outside the back door. Laurie had just done a ton of weeding, but it’s changed a lot from this photo by now. The next photo is the cream separator that Audrey and I found where the old barn used to be, and the last is a fritillaria growing that Laurie planted the autumn before.

It’s not that hard to add captions under the photos - but it’s enough of a pain that I think I usually won’t bother. Maybe there’s a better way… I’m editing the HTML that the plug-in creates at the moment.

And another test of the iPhoto WordPress plugin - I think Eliot is one cool cat.

Ah - I was going to write that I was trying to figure out the WordPress iPhoto plugin with no success, but I just found that the images it uploads go into drafts. Mystery solved.

I feel like I hardly got the garden to bed - no, let me correct that - I didn’t even get the garden to bed properly, and it’s time to think about ordering seeds. I did at least get some of the new beds covered in newspaper or cardboard and straw. I suppose each year we’ll make a little progress and move forward as we go.

I’m wondering if I should bring the logs I innoculated this spring into the cellar… perhaps the cold outside is good for them?

Update: It seems they can stay outside, but should be brought into barn or some other cover if the winter is exceptionally harsh. I wonder if that’s us…

I found this tutorial helpful. It did seem though, that one point was overlooked. If you rename your wordpress directory, as the author suggests you do, you then need to go through all the files in directory and change all links that point to the /wordpress/ directory to the new name.

Update (12/14/2006) I just did a second install for a client - and this time, despite changing the name of the Wordpress folder, I didn’t need to do a search and replace to reflect the name change. Odd.

My airport is working again after reinstalling the 10.4.8 combo updater. Installing the latest security update from Apple (Security Update 2006-007) caused the airport to not see any networks anytime after waking up from sleep. Anyway - all fixed now.

So - a little post to test my install of Wordpress at Go Daddy. I’ll write more about this shortly.