Just a reminder that the clocks get changed on Sunday, the 9th here in the Americas. I didn’t know that the date for change is different in the European Union. The change date for the European Union is March 30th.
Interestingly, I discovered from the webexhibits.org link (above), that the official spelling and grammar is “Daylight Saving Time,” without an S on the word saving, but
many people feel the word savings (with an ‘s’) flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.
I have a blog on WordPress.com, besides this one (WordPress.org). Anyway, on that site, something called Snap Shots is enabled (there is not as much control by the user there).
I figured that it had to be a plugin of some kind and I was able to find it. It’s very easy to install. You don’t have to be a programmer, and if you go to the Snapshot web page, they even have a 1 click installation button. So now, if you hover your mouse over a link, it will show you a snapshot (get it 
) or preview of the page that it is linked to.
While checking out .COM, I examined the spellchecker since I haven’t been able to get it to work on the .ORG site and it worked. So, I came to this site and tried it, and it worked perfectly.
Prior to this, I would get an error message. Now you click on the spellcheck and that turns it on and checks the spelling, then underlines the misspelled words in red. Clicking on the red words will offer suggestions. Now, I think you should be able to click on the suggestion and that will replace the word, but that doesn’t happen.
Follow-up:
It didn’t work because for whatever reason, Camino won’t play. Works fine in FireFox.
The New York Times has a humorous article:
On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC.
Question: Does that make John McCain’s website a TRS-80?
I have been on hold now for 20 minutes with Time Warner Cable trying to resolve an issue dating back to October 15th.
I could not see any video on demand (VOD), because 10 minutes into a movie, the picture would start to break up (microblock) and eventually the sound would go. I had techs come out 3 times. One changed the wiring inside the house. One changed the wiring outside the house, and one changed the set top boxes. On the last visit, the tech saw that the issue was not resolved. That was on Nov. 24th. He called the IT department and said it had to be resolved from their end at the IT department. Sometime in December I decided to chance a movie again…. This time it worked.
So, I figure I am supposed to get a credit for not having the service available from Oct. 15th to whenever they fixed it,… which was NOT on Nov. 24th. Fortunately, the last tech gave me the IT ticket number. The problem is that TW has it in their records as being resolved on Nov. 24th, and whenever any of the TW personnel call IT, they get put on hold.
So this last encounter lasted 32 minutes of my life (which I will never get back). Theoretically, I will get called back (tomorrow?) with the correct date… I hate Bureaucracy.
It’s been forever since my last post. I apologize. So many things have happened but it seems so boring by now. The most recent event follows.
I recently (a couple of months or so ago) chipped both of my front teeth. When I say chipped, I mean chunks of teeth missing. No, I was not trying to open a beer bottle with my teeth. I thought I was going to spend the remainder of my life making ssssss sounds whenever I pronounced a word beginning with “F”. So yesterday, I went to the dentist with the idea that he would probably not be able to fix it, or if he could fix it, it was going to cost a million dollars. Well he fixed it, and though not cheap, definitely not exorbitant, and my teeth look normal again and I can speak without sounding like a snake.
YEAH!!!!
I just came from seeing a wonderful documentary called King of Kong. It’s about classic video game players, but so much more. Good guys, bad guys, drama, suspense. You’ll probably on see it at art movie theaters, but if you can find it, go see it. Should be eligible for an academy award in the documentary category.
One of my favorite blogs is Knock-Knock, but the blog seems to have disappeared. The last blog PeaceChick Mary wrote on Aug. 20, talked about emergency room visits. I hope she’s okay.
A friend of mine told me to google, “anti war executive order.” and the path led me to this page dated july 17th. Anyone know if this is accurate?
finally is resting comfortably on my left wrist as I type this entry. It got there amid more drama at the post office. You’ve experienced it before. People wait in line for the clerk to return only to be told to get in another line. I’m surprised there aren’t more acts of violence at the PO.
Anyway, it’s everything I thought it would be, and I’m happy.
I saw Michael Moore’s Sicko, today. Another one of those movies that had me either laughing or crying (literally). It’s amazing what we put up with as so called health care, and the path to who’s to blame is clear and straight.
This is a must see movie for anyone who plans on voting in 2008. It’s time the politicians were asked serious, open ended questions… both on the right and left. As the movie says if we can spend trillions for war, then there is money for health care.
