The long-suffering Lee the Tech Lady and I have been working with Zen Cart at the DianeDuane.com online shop for almost six months now, and the reviews are, well, kind of mixed. While Zen Cart works well enough, the learning curve has been annoyingly steep, and the thing has more controls than the Space Shuttle [...]
I was checking on something over at EuropeanCuisines.com and found (via Woopra) that someone from Belgium was looking at a recipe. Hardly an unusual occurrence by itself, as EC.com is normally moderately busy and has visitors from all over the world. (I remember the time I found someone from Ulan Bator looking at Peter’s Mum’s [...]
It’s always fun when someone exactly gets what you were trying to do. “”Omnitopia Dawn, dot Hack, and also, surprisingly, Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb, all have an element in common, that of using video gaming worlds to affect the so-called “real” world. But J.D. Robb uses the next step in virtual reality as [...]
As of this weekend we’ll be running out of the supply of special kidney-friendly cat food that the vet’s office sent home with Mr. Squeak after his hospital stay. Now it’s time to start ordering it seriously, and jeezLouise is that stuff expensive. Also, in our neck of the woods you have to order it [...]
Per a notification from Lee the Tech Lady: “Just a quick note to let everyone know: our ISP is going to be upgrading the software underlying all the YW.com sites tonight, some time between 11 PM EDT Thursday evening and 4 AM EDT Friday morning. (For the techies among you: the servers have been running [...]