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Vacation
I am on vacation this week, so blogging will be very light (if I blog at all). That means I will not be liveblogging Tuesday’s City Council meeting. However, you can watch it on Comcast Cable Channel 22, or listen to it on WCBU-FM 89.9. WCBU also streams their audio over the internet.
Have a great week, everyone!
Computer blues
All kinds of news, and no new posts on the Chronicle…. What’s going on?
Answer: Computer problems. My Dell Inspiron 1501 is on the blink. Lately, it’s been shutting off unexpectedly. Not shutting down — shutting off. One second it’s on, and I’m in the middle of typing something, and the next second — POOF! — it’s off. Completely off. Totally off. Kind of disconcerting. Especially when it won’t boot back up again… for a couple days. Then, one day, you press the power button and it boots right up as if nothing ever happened.
So, a new laptop is in our near future. In fact, it’s being assembled now and will ship soon. A powerful motherboard from a pcb solutions company will be installed in my new computer so it should be able to handle my everyday tasks easily.
Well, now I’m getting excited to receive my new computer. I can’t wait to use it for my blog. In the meantime, if I go a couple days without posting, you’ll know why.
Site issues
There have been some problems with the site today, you may have noticed. My hosting account was temporarily suspended due to excessive CPU usage. I’ve optimized my SQL databases and deactivated a couple of plugins, so the site is back up now and (hopefully) will run a little quicker.
One of the plugins I deactivated was the one that puts a toolbar on the comments section. For those of you who liked that feature, I’m sorry I can’t support it anymore (maybe a better plugin will come out sometime that allows the same functionality). For the rest of you, you’ll be happy to know that you can put in your own HTML codes again (like blockquote — a long-standing favorite).
Thanks, everyone!