Quasi-winter has arrived. It is “cold” and windy outside, so we’ve decided that it would be a nice day to stay inside and have for Chili for supper (wonder what is a good wine for accompanying chili?)
Fixed the Galleries, the hard way. Deleted any semblance of the Simple PHP Gallery files and proceeded to try and get Gallery to work. Two attempts at uncompressing the archive file (seems as winzip doesn’t work well with the tarball) and two attempts at uploading the files (seems like WS_FTP doesn’t work well with the files) and I finally got to run the installation script. Reading the support forum I expected troubles, but was disappointed as it worked first time. I created a test directory and uploaded a file. Great. Now to re-upload the 100 or so photos that are already there, cut and paste their captions and descriptions from the text file to each individual image, learn a new layout and templating system, so I can customize the albums to look like the rest of the site. F@%k that. Deleted everything I uploaded and mulled my next move. Hoping, against all odds, that just re-uploading the Simple PHP Gallery files might work, I tried it. It’s a miracle, photos again. The only logical reason I could think as to why it worked is the cache files for the thumbnails was corrupt and regenerating it was the fix. Note to self, delete the cache first next time the galleries mess up.
I also fixed the computers not talking to each other thing, the easy way. I checked this setting once before and thought what I saw was good enough, but it wasn’t. I did two things the other day to get the computers talking, one was disabling the DHCP and the other was disabling the software firewalls. Figuring the IP Address thing was the cause of the no internet access, I left DHCP on and just disabled the firewalls. Viola! Note to self, check both boxes on the Network Neighborhood tab of Sygate Personal Firewall’s option screen.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/06: 13
Here’s a couple of recommendations for good and less expensive reds:
– Jest Red (the label is a hoot) I used to be able to buy this for less than $7/bottle and it’s since climbed up to around $9/bottle. Very good
– Menages a Trois by the Folie ? Deux winery — no, this is not a joke. They have a white and a red … each has three wines blended. The red is a blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot and zinfandel or pinot noir. It will go on sale for under $10 … otherwise it might be tad higher (see http://www.kqed.org/weblog/food/2005/05/folie-trois.jsp for a back story)
Depending on how spicy the chili, I buy a hearty red and not too expensive. I’d recommend a good beer in lieu of a wine but ….
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One more recommended red:
Rex Goliath Pinot Noir – see http://www2.ibgcheckout.com/rexgoliath/aboutus/history.jsp for some background. The full name is actually Rex Goliath “47 Pound Rooster” Central Coast “Free Range” Pinot Noir but the clerk will look at you quizzically if you try to say the whole label name.
this one also will be just under $10/bottle when on sale and when I find it, I’ll buy a case. I seem to find it on sale fairly often at two or three local wine stores, YMMV.
Thanks for the reccomendations. I may have to go shopping in an actual wine shop instead of my local supermarket. 🙂