Archive for June, 2010

Today’s Business: 2010-06-26

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Shower.  DONE.
  • Cat duty.  DONE.
  • Do all pending laundry.  DONE.

Log

10:00 AM: I’m up.

10:15 AM: Facebooked a while this morning.  Friend count is now 223.  My official Facebook page I created yesterday has 12 subscribers so far.

11:00 AM: Arranged for someone in Nephew Garrett’s family to drive me to Altoona tomorrow to pick up [Emmy] at the train.

11:15 AM: Helped brother-in-law Richard with a swimming pool heating project he’s working on today.  I have several circulating pumps here, and he  wondered if any of them are big enough to move water between his pool and the solar collectors on his garage roof nearby.  He has a very large pump that would indeed do the job.  But it’s likely too big and would thus cost too much to operate.  Plus, it would pump the water too fast, so that the sun would have insufficient time to warm the water in the collectors before returning it to the pool.  My pumps each offer at most ten feet of head (they can’t pump water higher than ten feet).  But his collectors are higher than that; perhaps thirteen to fifteen feet above ground.  So after Googling around and reading specs on various pumps, we decided that mine here are definitely too small — unless we use two of them in series to extend the head.  He might decide to do this.  But at the moment, he’s looking for a cheaper solution.  Aren’t we always doing that?

11:30 AM: [Emmy] called to say hi and that she’s in the process of packing for her trip here tomorrow.  We’ve all told her: Bring your swimsuit!  :-)

12:40 PM: Got the laundry under way.  Today, there are a couple of Mom’s loads, and the sheets and pillow cases on my bed.

01:05 PM: Completed the weekly system backups (details  here), and the weekly site statistics report (see that   here).

03:00 PM: Just upgraded blogs from WordPress 2.9.2 to 3.0. No major problems; although I must again disable automatic saving of post revisions. If I revise a post 20 times, then 20 copies of it are stored; bloating the DB and slowing performance. But the code has changed significantly in 3.0. So I’ll have to figure out how to turn this off in 3.0. :-( If anyone knows how, I welcome your input. :-)

04:40 PM: I figured out how to disable the saving of post revisions.  See details   here.

05:50 PM: iPodded at the pavilion.  Nice afternoon, and the dogs were quiet too.  :-)

06:10 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   on the DVR.

06:15 PM: Nap time.

07:00 PM: I’m back up again and eating supper now.

10:00 PM: Watched    Larry King   on  CNN tonight, doing his interview with Lady Gaga.  Good show.

12:00 AM: Posted a link entry on my Facebook business page to the   Why So Fast The Fall   piece on the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.

12:30 AM: Put clean sheets and pillow cases on the bed

01:00 AM: Monitored the site stats over the past 24 hours, and observed a moderate increases in traffic.  But I’ve received no clicks from people visiting my sites; so no revenue yet since the ad campaign began this past Friday.  I’ll continue watching and tuning, and next week, I’ll call Google and take advantage of the free offer of consultation on how to make my campaign more profitable.

02:00 AM: Facebooked some more.  Friend count is now 229.

02:15 AM: Okay, time to get off of here for the night.  May your rest be effective and thus refreshing, and we’ll pick this up again in less than twelve hours.  Take care and good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

  • Revised blank prescription FAX forms from Mom’s medical insurance company.  That’s all today.  :-)

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Disabling Post Revisions: WordPress 3.0

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

I discovered that WordPress was again saving every revision of every post after I upgraded the   Tom’s Views   blog to WordPress 3.0, though I had disabled this feature back in March.  Click   here   for more details.  But apparently, in this latest version, the automatic retention of these revisions became enabled once more. So I turned off this feature by commenting out line 4398 in the wp-includes/post.php file as follows:

Line 4398 was:

if ( ! WP_POST_REVISIONS )

but now, it’s:

// if ( ! WP_POST_REVISIONS )

Then I deleted all the revisions that had been saved to this point from each blog database by executing the following SQL statement:

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘revision’;

I then logged out and back into each site’s admin id and verified that the revisions saved thus far no longer appear on the Edit Post screen. The deletion apparently worked.   These instructions have now been verified to work with WordPress 3.0.

That’s all.

Tom Hesley

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Weekly Backups: 2010-06-26

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Weekly backups of all my blog sites completed.

  • Databases size: 13.4 MB.  That’s down 400 KB from 13.8 MB last week.  Lots of writing done over the past seven days. But I did delete some old post drafts that were apparently large in size; thus the net decrease in data.  Though I added lots of data, I must have deleted more than I added.  The record database size remains 14.4 MB. 
  • Total data backed up: 91.6 MB.  That’s up  2200 KB from 89.4 MB last week.  Note that this figure includes all databases, site code, static pages, and log files. The record amount of total data saved in a weekly backup is now 91.6 MB. 

Tom Hesley

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Site Stats: 2010-06-26

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

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General Summary
1. Host name prosaic-expressions.com
2. Host URL http://www.prosaic-expressions.com
3. Program start time Jun 26, 2010 07:22
4. Time of first request Feb 1, 2010 00:01
5. Time of last request Jun 26, 2010 00:00
6. Time last 7 days lasts until Jun 26, 2010 07:22
7. Successful server requests 967,247 Requests
8. Successful requests in last 7 days 40,345 Requests
9. Successful requests for pages 640,949 Requests for pages
10. Successful requests for pages in last 7 days 27,447 Requests for pages
11. Failed requests 12,147 Requests
12. Failed requests in last 7 days 497 Requests
13. Distinct files requested 42,006 Files
14. Distinct files requested in last 7 days 10,689 Files
15. Distinct hosts served 6,470 Hosts
16. Distinct hosts served in last 7 days 672 Hosts
17. Unwanted lines in the logfile 3,904 Lines
18. Total data transferred 23.352 GB
19. Total data transferred in last 7 days 1.473 GB

 

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Diet: 2010-06-26

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

I keep this food diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, with the hope that it decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Today, I consumed the following items:

  • Herbal tea and diet caffeine-free Pepsi  throughout the day. 0 calories.
  • 04:45 PM: 2 bananas.  250 calories.
  • 04:50 PM: 1 cup fat free organic skim milk.  80 calories.
  • 07:10 PM: Pork roast and vegetables.  500 calories.
  • 07:30 PM: 2 cups fat free plain yogurt and 6 Oz. of blueberries.  310 calories.
  • 11:30 PM: 6 Oz. blueberries.  90 calories.

Total calories: 1230.

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Business: 2010-06-25

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Shower.  DONE.
  • Cat duty.  DONE.

Log

07:00 AM: I’m up.

08:30 AM: Facebooked a while this morning.  Friend count is now 215.

08:40 AM: Added more content to  the   Gulf Oil Spill Thoughts: 2010-06-23   piece on the   Tom’s Views   blog.

09:20 AM: Threw a pork roast and vegetables into the crock pot just now.  It should be ready to devour by 6:30 PM or so.

11:35 AM: Launched  my first AdWords campaign today for the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog’s home page.  Needless to say, I’ll be watching the number of visits I’m getting very closely.  I’m so excited.

02:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   on the DVR.

03:00 PM: Wrote 300 words into an upcoming   Tom’s Love Quest   post on  how to attract women.

03:15 PM: {Emmy] says she’s having problems changing her email address on Facebook.  I’ll assist her a bit later.

04:30 PM:  The pork roast is finished and I’ve eaten perhaps a third of it for supper.  Delicious!

06:00 PM: Just woke up from a nap.

07:20 PM: Watched   NBC’s Nightly News   on the DVR.

11:00 PM: Established an official Facebook page for my business.  So far, four people like it already.

12:30 AM: Reviewed yesterday’s stats from my AdWords campaign and adjusted keywords to attract more clicks tomorrow.

02:00 AM: Sent an hour reading the Google AddWords documentation and made some enhancements to my campaign based on some of the stuff I learned.

02:05 AM: Bed time.  So good night, and I’ll see you in less than twelve hours.  Take care.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

  • Notice of a change in administration firms of our flood insurance.
  • Balance transfer checks from Capital One bank.  Not at this time, thanks.

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Facebook Tid Bits: 2010-06-25

Friday, June 25th, 2010

08:00 AM: Tom Hesley  knows he’s too tired to write when he spells fruit as FROOT. He loves fresh froot but hates the “timeliness” of it — having to eat it within a few days, lest it go bad. Fresh froot expirations feel too much like the deadlines at work. So at home, he avoids deadlines; though he nonetheless devours froot with glee. Fruit! *yawn* Good morning. :-)

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Diet: 2010-06-25

Friday, June 25th, 2010

I keep this food diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, with the hope that it decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Today, I consumed the following items:

  • Herbal tea and diet caffeine-free Pepsi  throughout the day. 0 calories.
  • 01:00 PM: 1 banana.  125 calories.
  • 01:05 PM: 1 cup of fat free (skim) milk.  80 calories.
  • 01:10 PM: Multivitamin.  0 calories.
  • 04:45 PM: Pork roast and vegetables.  600 calories.
  • 06:00 PM: 12 Oz. blueberries.  180 calories.

Total calories: 985.

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Business: 2010-06-24

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Shower.  DONE.
  • Cat duty.  DONE.

Log

08:00 AM: I’m up.

08:30 AM: Facebooked a while this morning.  Friend count is now 206.

09:45 PM: Added more content to  the   Gulf Oil Spill Thoughts: 2010-06-23   piece to the   Tom’s Views   blog.

10:45 AM: Added the   Therapy   category to the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.  Posts in this group detail my experiences with and impressions of the therapy I sought through the years, to aid me in winning my love quest.

01:05 PM: Posted the   Our Government: 2010-06-24    piece to the   Tom’s Views   blog.

02:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   on the DVR.  Sharon came face-to-face with Adam.  Victor is forced to fly back home to testify in Nick’s trial.  Sky comes face-t0-face with Victor at the poker table.

04:45 PM: Watched today’s rerun episode of   Dr. Phil;   pertaining to Moms who drink and the problems this causes for their children and anyone who must coexist with them really.

06:00 PM: Facebooked for the past couple hours, and told my friends about Mom’s need to go to the hospital.  I’ve received numerous well-wishes.  That’s nice.

07:20 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of   NBC’s Nightly News   on the DVR.

07:45 PM: Watered all of Mom’s plants outside per her request while she’s away.

09:00 PM: iPodded at the pavilion for the past hour.  The new iOS 4.0 does work better.  Should play be interrupted by a weak WiFi signal, the AOL Radio app recovers now.  Before the station would stop playing, but not start again even after the signal strength rose until you pressed the play button again.  But now, it automatically restarts when I walk into a strong portion of the WiFi bubble.  Cool.  The Touch seems a bit more sluggish than before; I get some long pauses when touching the screen to switch to different stations.  But perhaps this is something they’ll work out in a maintenance release soon. I do hope so.

10:00 PM: Bought a late supper at Sheets, during    tonight’s shopping trip.

10:30 PM: Tried calling [Emmy] tonight.  But there was no answer.  She’s been getting tired earlier in the evening these days.  So she probably just went to bed.  I’ll catch her tomorrow.

10:58 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of    CNN’s AC 360   live.

11:00 PM: Looked for some older pictures that I was sure I’d stored on this computer.  But a whole folder was missing.  I checked my backups from as far back as a year ago, and apparently the folder has been gone at least that long.  So, fortunately, I was able to find many of those pics in my older email files; I’d sent them to numerous folks and saved copies of all my sent email.  Still though, I’m curious about what could have happened to that folder.  Hmmm.

01:00 AM: Facebooked a while.  Friend count is up to 215.

01:05 AM: Well, I’m going to pull out of here for the night.  Have a good one yourself, and I’ll be back out here again in under ten hours.  Good night.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

  • Coupon card from   Papa John’s   pizza.  No thanks.  I’m on a diet at present.  :-)
  • Notice from Mom’s medical insurance company of coverage they’re providing for a blood-glucose test she had run recently.
  • Credit card offer from BankAmericard.  Hmmm.  Haven’t heard that name in three decades.  Aren’t they what turned into today’s VISA?  Well, it looks like someone is resurrecting that old name these days.   But the longer I live, the more against credit cards for toy purchase I become.  So no thanks, but thanks anyway for the offer though.

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Shopping Trip: 2010-06-24

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

09:25 PM: Bought a grilled chicken salad at Sheetz, with the following ingredients:

  • Grilled chicken
  • Romaine lettuce
  • Jalapeno peppers
  • Pickles
  • Black olives
  • Mild pepper rings
  • Diced tomatoes
  • Green peppers
  • Slivered onions
  • Diced onion
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Colby Jack cheese blend
  • Sliced hard-boiled eggs
  • Fat-free Italian dressing

Total cost: $5.92

Grand total: $5.92

Tom Hesley

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