Presto’s Ramblings

As you all know, I’ve been offline for a little while I work on some stuff.  When I went to check on my blog, I discovered that I had over 500 spam comments to deal with.  The spam filter caught them all, but I had to waste a lot of time sorting through them to [...]

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I’ve been juggling a couple of projects and helping my mother get ready for yet another surgery. Meantime, here’s a musical interlude to fill the time during the intermission. I can’t get this Jimmy Barnes song out of my head lately, so here it is…

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There seems to be an odd problem with how the Gallery section of this site renders in Internet Explorer 6. Pictures are cut off on the right side. Funny, it looks fine in IE7. I’m going to have to figure that one out.
If y’all see any other problems, please be sure to [...]

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My quote collection project is in full swing.  I now have 99 quotes in the widget in the upper right corner of this blog’s pages, and have 169 in the database for the screensaver project.  I still have more to add from the pages that I have found on the net and the quotes that [...]

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Over the last few days I have been going through the posts that I have imported over from my old Blogspot blog, and I have noticed a disturbing trend: most of the YouTube clips that I have posted come up with a message that says, “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.”  I poked [...]

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Welcome to my new home on the web!  For those of you who are coming from my old blog on Blogger, I’m glad that the forward worked.  For those of you who are new, glad you were able to find the place!
I hope that you like the place.  It still has a few rough edges, [...]

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I’m sorry that things have been a little quiet around here recently. I am working on a project, and so have been a little busy. I’ll be back soon!

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Inspired by environmentalist blogger Crunchy Chicken’s book discussions, I’m going to post my own notes about personal freedom books that I read. As I read chapters in the book, I will post whatever thoughts that come into my head and try to relate the content to my own quest for freedom. You are [...]

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…because it seems that every time I try to start working on a substantive post, my internet connection goes down. It’s frustrating and aggravating. I guess that I am going to have to compose my posts offline, and post them in one of the short windows of a clear wireless connection that I [...]

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This is just a short note to notify readers that I have updated the linklist on the right-hand side of the blog. Some of the old links were dead, and some no longer relevant to the direction the blog is going. It’s a relatively short list compared to some blogs. I don’t [...]

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