It’s Sunday not a whole lot going on. Pretty bored at the moment. Gotta get to the gym by 3:30pm to get my full routine in. I didn’t give myself enough time Friday night. The dog likes me getting up earlier as of lately. He gets to sun for a couple hours a day. I’m kind of happy my VPS is back up. I wasn’t looking forward to having to recreate everything somewhere else.
About an hour ago I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.6, and then fumbled around a few minutes looking for where to turn on Google Gears. I think they could have put “Turbo” somewhere a little more obvious, maybe even give it an icon to stand out. So far I guess the wp-admin seems a little quicker. Not sure what to really test. Looking at the Apache logs for my website, it definitely saves on server requests/bandwidth, which while isn’t necessary at this point, is still welcome.
I’ve been back to work about 2 weeks now. Things are ok. I’ve made a few correctable mistakes, created lots of documentation, tried to update really old software, and started using Microsoft Outlook with Exchange *shiver*. It’s not that bad when kept in the cage of a virtual machine container. Oi Vey, so another issue I’ve had to deal with that I’m not to thrilled about is software licensing. I really just don’t care for it. It makes things more complicated in that I can’t just install and configure the software I need, to make sure we own it, get the right software media which works for the install key and then input the correct number of client access licenses or processors. Then of course I had to find and use a 3.5″ floppy disk to install 3rd party drivers to install M$ Server 2003 R2 on a Dell 1750 from almost 5 years ago. It’s all new hardware to me 
but still seems to have the same M$ quirks I remember from back in the day.
Another new to me thing I’ve had to deal with is Quickbooks, WTF. File locking, multiple users, slow as molases over the network. I’ve had to correct the same issue at least 10 times now where I go over to the machine, attempt the task again, fail, then remote to the server, run the Quickbooks server app, find the company database _again_, re-attempt the task, fail, re find the company file, re-attempt the task, possibly succeed, then maybe tell it to stop “hosting” the multi-user access to files which are stored on the remote machine. It’s messy, and scary to think that 15 years ago it was OK for programs to act that way. In this day of age, software should just work, and if it doesn’t it should be open enough that someone with the spare time can take a look under the hood to advance things for all to enjoy.
