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Theoretically .. we have the CD’s that we originally used to install software and when it is necessary we simply find them and reload. The problem is that theory runs up against reality which results in explosions and body parts scattered around.

Case in point. I use a program called Homesite for web design. No longer produced it was merged into Adobe’s Dreamweaver product ‘back when’. It appeals to ‘old school’ types I think since it is code based instead of being a WYSIWIG. No matter .. it works and I wanted to re-install it to my new computer.

I did not have a CD for the latest version- Homesite 5.5 … what I did find was an old .. old CD for Homesite 4.0 (released November 1998. Said it was old.)

My first thought was to log onto Adobe. I did so .. and it told me that they had no record of my purchasing any software. Darn.

I wasn’t surprised really .. since the program had originally been written by Nick Bradbury and sold as shareware, then versions 2,3 and 4 owned by Allaire, sold to Macromedia which produced versions 5, 5.2 and 5.5 and finally owned by Adobe who merged it into Dreamweaver. Darn.

I found where I could still download a trial copy off the internet. Cool – but – good for only 30 days.

Understand, I had a copy purchased with activation key on my old C: drive .. except my laptop died from a lightening strike. Bad. My hard drive was recovered and put into an external box and now resides as a USB connected external hard drive. Good. Except .. the activation key is stored in the Registry .. buried somewhere withing the Windows section of the old C: drive. Bad.

I found where the activation key is stored within the Registry .. but again .. this Registry is on an external hard drive now and outside my ability to get into it. Darn.

Next- I had a thought. Hmmm. I betcha .. I betcha I may have made a screen print showing the key. I start looking. Didn’t find that but I DID find the print from the original purchase. Complete with activation key. Shazzam!!

Not really. Seems that you can’t enter the activation key into a trial copy. It has to be entered into a PURCHASED copy. Darn.

Top of the page from the print out .. OH! The email I used was an older one. Ah ha! I log into Adobe using THIS email .. and .. oh boy .. NOW .. I find my Homesite 5.5 .. YES!! It even has a DOWNLOAD link!! OH goody. Oh Shazzam!!

Not.

I download the Homesite 5.5 and install it. When it comes up asking for the activation key I enter it. Ok. Now it tells me .. that was an upgrade. It needs the activation key from the product I upgraded from.

Ok. No problem. The Homesite 4.0 CD is in the storage room Down I go .. search .. THERE IT IS!!

I come back up .. enter the activation key (written directly onto the CD) … it doesn’t work.

Darn.

I am stumped for a bit. Looking back at the Adobe site I notice the other product listed. I click it .. and it tells me it is Homesite 5.0 … ooooo. Ok. I must have upgraded from Homesite 4.0 to Homesite 5.0 then to Homesite 5.5

Sheesh. I remove the Homesite 5.5 .. download the Homesite 5.0 .. install .. and when asked enter the activation key. It accepts it .. and asks me for the activation key from the program I upgraded from. I entered the Homsite 4.0 activation key. It was happy!! So was I. Then .. I installed the Homesite 5.5 upgrade .. entered the activation key .. and everything was ‘happy days’.

Ok. Now .. I am going to burn a CD. Copy the Homesite 5.0 and Homesite 5.5 upgrades (.exe files) to the CD along with a text file with all the activation keys. THEN .. put that CD away nice and safe .. for next time.

Hating What’s Right: How the Modern Liberal Winds Up on the Wrong Side of Every Issue

On March 3, 2009 Evan Sayet gave another speech at the Heritage Foundation.

People keep asking .. “Doesn’t Obama understand what he is doing?” .. or variations on that theme. The answer is .. YES. He does. Watch the video.

For his first, two years ago see this link

“The U.N. Security Council approved tough new sanctions against North Korea Friday for its recent nuclear test.”

The draft resolution sent to the seven governments on Friday would curtail North Korea’s financial dealings with the outside world, freeze assets of additional companies, expand an arms embargo, and authorize searches of ships on the high seas suspected of carrying arms and banned weapons to the North if the country whose flag the vessel is flying gives consent.

on Twitter, @NickDeringer said “German Red Cross said more than 10,000 North Korean’s starve to death every MONTH. Well, at least were not have a war!!!!”

You have to wonder who the sanctions will hurt. I bet on the North Korean people. I doubt that the elites running the country. (North Korea’s Elite Enjoy Life of Relative Privalage)

“Nominally a socialist republic, North Korea is widely considered by the outside world to be a de facto authoritarian/totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship.” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea

Well. I am curious though. I would suspect that we should be more concerned with army EXPORTED from North Korea then an embargo on arms imported into the country.

So. The masses will continue to starve. They will continue to be tortured and die in Camp 22- what this article describes as a concentration camp larger then Dachau or Auschwitz- complete with self-grown Dr Mengeles .. and will die in gas chambers, or in biological tests, or face death in the human dissection rooms. – ARTICLE

Random Thoughts

I was stationed in Korea for 16 months during 1998-99. Camp Casey is only 11 miles South of the DMZ – as a crow flies.

We were somewhere North of Casey one day and we parked out tank in a nice ‘ready made’ area on a ridge facing North. The Northern part of South Korea is all mountains- the people crowd the little land that isn’t vertical- or nearly so.

This ‘parking spot’ was specifically there to stick a tank. Walking around the area we found that the entire ridge was honeycombed with a tunnel pierced with defensive fighting positions down the length of the ridge. We didn’t explore too far but seems reasonable that the same system of tunnels, defensive positions continued to our left and right along the ridge facing North. Other ridges .. the same thing- one after the other.

Where the roads slice through narrow points there are rock-drops. these are immense constructions to act as a temporary block to the invading North. Think of the road cutting through a valley with the mountains on either side. Now, imagine colossal cement constructions that line the road- holding tons and tons of rock. Hundreds of tons of rock held above your head in ‘dams’ of concrete. They are designed to ‘break away’ through explosive charges and drop those tons of concrete and rock onto the pass.

You go further North and as you get closer to the DMZ it flattens out as it gets to the Han river. We stopped on a road somewhere up there and what I saw, from the edges of the narrow road, were red and white sticks stretching to the horizon. Red sticks .. white sticks. Perhaps a foot tall or so, they were spaced perhaps 18” apart (I say ‘perhaps’ because this was ten years ago).

These sticks represented mines. Some were anti-tank mines, some were anti-personnel mines. Some were real and some not I was told. Again .. these stretched from the road as far as the eye could see.

When you got to the river and were crossing it on the bridge you could see the actual mines through the water- spaced so closely together you couldn’t see where someone would place a foot. Of course- these were the visible ones.

On the DMZ itself you can see guard towers across the DMZ manned by the North Korean soldiers .. troops troops and still more troops. Masses of them. Think of an ant nest you kick.

At night there are loud speakers playing constantly. The voice is like something out of a WWII movie with the North constantly blaring praise of it’s leaders and denouncing the South and the West. I understand that this has stopped since then.

Strange place North Korea. You sometimes hear the phrase that Truth is stranger then Fiction. In this case, it applies. This county takes what a person would believe fiction and makes it real.

I attempted to update my phpbb3 forum today .. and I’m not sure ‘what the heck’ is going on. You upload the changed files and an install folder. Run a php file within the install folder which then updates/changes parts of the database. NEXT .. you delete the install folder. Now .. I am getting a failure to list the directory structure on etraxx.com within my FTP program. I was afraid at first that I had somehow deleted the entirety of the files on the server .. but .. THIS .. this post on my blog says that didn’t happen.

Weird

In everyday life you sometimes have a problem with people that irritate you. If you work with them you may be faced with a quandry. When I was actively serving in the Army you were faced with three possibilities: (1) You out-ranked them (2) They were your peers – or (3) They outranked you. Where you outranked them you had the opportunity to counsel them-to ‘correct’ the things that you perceived as ‘wrong’. Where they were your peers you could either ignore them or try to talk out the differences you might have. The last one where they outrank you- you are basically screwed. Rank in the Army is power and that is that.

Twitter is different. You can follow and un-follow as you wish. It makes things much, much easier.

I received a tweet from @HOODREPORT.. in my ‘Replies’ column on TweetDeck that said ..

@eTraxx FUCK SARA PAILIN SHE IS AN UNFIT MOM SHE ALLOWED HER UNDERAGE KID TO HAVE A BABY

Well. THAT is news to me! You as a mother are unfit .. because you ‘allow’ your daughter to have a baby. A couple of things came immediately to mind.

(1) Yes, the girl is ‘underage’ by law. In most societies she would be considered an adult- I am sure that during our pioneer days she would have been. Still. She was underage when she had the baby- whatever THAT means. I suppose- that being ‘underage’ the parent should have had the baby aborted?
(2) The ‘underage’ girl .. is quite obviously pretty much an adult physically- and I would think have a say in the matter.

Of course- my assumption (and we KNOW what assumptions can do) is that @HODGEREPORT is talking about carrying the baby to term. IF .. instead it is about the girl having sex .. my response is .. “What is she supposed to do? Sew the girl’s legs together?”.

Sheesh.

Again, Twitter makes it easy. Un-follow.

These are the two young men that were gunned down last week in front of an Army Recruiting Center in Arkansas by a Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad. If you wish to send a note to the recruiteers where this happened you can use the following address:

Army-Navy Career Center
U.S. Army Recruiting
9112 N Rodney Parham Rd.
Little Rock, AR 72205

My roommate (sic*), Tigger. I had walked in from roaming about Lowes (a male thing- similar in many ways to the female’s prowling around Victoria Secret’s) and had tossed a soil-test-kit on the bed. Tigger immediately took possesion of it.

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The April 2009 issue of Better Home and Gardens has a short article on creating inexpensive planters using concrete edgers, steppers and block adhesive. Looks interesting- I have already created my landscape timber planter-box/retaining wall thingies .. but adding a couple of these would add interest I think. I believe that part of what makes a garden ‘pop’ is to intertwine different textures.

The process is relatively simple. Using landscape block adhesive, you glue together your choice of concrete edgers and then use concrete steppers for a base.

Click the thumb-nails for a larger photo

I made a couple of these yesterday. Posted the photos here:

Tags: concrete planter, garden, Landscaping, planter

An astrophotographer Thierry Legault took this photo just minutes before the shuttle Atlantis caught up with the Hubble telescope. Where you ask? Dead in the center of the photograph .. see that ’smudge’? No? Click the photo for a larger version! Full story at DISCOVER

He took another photo with the Atlantis against the sun- in transit. This is before the shuttle caught up with the Hubble telescope. “Thierry made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera.” Again, click the image for a larger version. Original on flickr

I liked this last photo so much that I resized it and then ‘tacked on’ some on the left to make a background for my desktop. Click for full size photo

Tags: Atlantis At, Hubble, Shuttle, Space