Notes From Zone 4

The snow storm today turned out to mostly miss us. We’d been hearing all day yesterday about how we could get a foot or more, and I woke up this morning ready to get out there and shovel. I doubt we got six inches, though it’s really hard to tell because it was a very windy storm. I keep wondering about my plants, though. I planted a few marginal things last fall, and they will need the snow cover, so I was really hoping for a good foot or more.

This is a 1.0 bug report, so it may have been fixed in 1.0.1. Here’s the deal. One of the side effects of Worpress feeding everything out of MySQL is that everything has a native url of index.php?[something-or-other]. This sounds harmless, but when Google and it’s ilk come to crawl your site, it looks like

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I updated MySQL from 3.23.28 (shipped with Redhat 9) to 4.0.17 last week so that I could install Zen Cart. The chatter on the net said that this upgrade is a little more eventful than it ought to be, and so it is. The first hassle is that many many other applications are set

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Yesterday we moved the wine log over to www.zinmasters.com. In the process we switched from Moveable Type to Wordpress. I’m pleased to report that the whole thing went flawlessly. Wordpress installed, MT exported, WP imported, Lisa fired up her spiffy new CSS editor and made the site look the way she thinks it should. We

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I set out a couple days ago to install PHPMyAdmin on bunter, the main webserver. (This iin preparation for getting OsCommerce which has no user interface of it’s own going. The default configuration involves putting a superuser password for MySQL into the config file. A simple workaround would have been to goto httpd.conf and

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We’re having a heat wave here. It got into the 20s today, and the snow on the roof is even melting a bit from the sun. The gargoyles look even cuter with icicles on them. Frank is threatening to take me outside to work on cutting trees or something if the heat wave continues tomorrow. After days of not going above zero, it’s funny how warm it really does feel now. Big blue skies and bright white snow make for really pretty pictures, though. I haven’t been doing much in the way of even garden planning lately. Our post office box is filled with catalogs, though, and I keep meaning to look at them. I just want to pace myself I think.

Even in midwinter there’s some gardening activity worth preserving. First the mushrooms. The enokitake had to get moved out of the fridge to the basement to make room for holiday food. Unfortunately stuff in the basement gets neglected, and we’ve had only one half-hearted flush. We’ve gotten two pretty good flushes from the pioppino

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The holidays being over, we’re going hot and heavy on our get-Lisa-off-the-road plans. She’s plugging away at getting our merchandise, and designing our websites, I’m getting the infrastructure up. eGroupWare continues to deliver. I’m working on installing OsCommerce first for a friend of ours. It looks like it seriously needs an administrator’s front end. I’m

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