Binary Expressions

Hey everybody I know I haven’t been on for a while but I have breaking NEWS about my sister-inlaw.
She is finally getting tired of the forbidden site after 30 months of being a member.

Hi everyone. It’s been awhile since I’ve created some of my own fresh content on here. Don’t worry there is more coming. I’ve just been quite busy with life lately and trying to upgrade WordPress. I’m also in the process of creating another website using WordPress. I’ll announce that when its complete. Anyways as you can see I’ve successfully upgraded to WordPress to v1.5. It was not easy at first for some reason. I wish I could explain why but I can’t. Only excuse I can come up with is working on it to late at night. The reason I say this is because the next day (yesterday) I did the exact same thing to upgrade WordPress and it worked perfectly with hardly any time investment. Here’s what I did to upgrade WordPress from v1.2 to v1.5. Please note these instructions are for those that don’t care about there WordPress files and alterations you may have done. Mine was simple so use instructions at your own risk and digression.

Steps to Upgrade WordPress v1.2 to 1.5

• Backup all your current WordPress files and database before moving on further!
• Download WordPress v1.5
• Delete all your WordPress files (remember you made a backup).
• Uncompress downloaded archive to where you had your previous version.
• Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php.
• Edit wp-config.php, set your database name, username and password.
• Load your web site into your favorite browser and add /wp-admin/upgrade.php (i.e. www.domainname.com/wp-admin/upgarde.php). Follow on screen instructions.
• At this point your WordPress should be successfully upgraded to v1.5.

The only steps left is to convert your old WordPress template into the new WordPress theme system and bring over any plugins you wish to use. You can follow the instructions on how to convert your WordPress template into the new WordPress theme system under Upgrading Old Templates. The plugins portion you will have to be on your own. Haven’t gotten to that point yet and I’m in no rush .

Note: I had to remove the link tag in my template referring to the /print.css. This file appears to no longer exist. You could create your own of course.

I came across this news article on BBC News about an individual that was discussed by being burglarized prior. So he took a brilliant idea of using his webcam to capture evidence. Well he pulled it off. It’s nice to see things like this happen. It’s a good read.

News source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/4272041.stm

A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night and have dinner with her parents. Since this is such a big event, the girl announced to her boyfriend that after dinner, she would like to go out and make love for the first time. Well, the boy is ecstatic, but he has never had sex before, so he takes a trip to the pharmacy to get some condoms. The pharmacist helps the boy for about an hour. He tells the boy everything there is to know about condoms and sex. At the counter, the pharmacist asks the boy how many condoms he’d like to buy: a 3-pack, 10-pack, or a family pack. ” I’m really going to give it to this girl,” the boy tells the pharmacist. “I intend to plug every orifice in her body at least twice.” The pharmacist, with a laugh, suggests the family pack, saying the boy will be rather busy, it being his first time and all. That night, the boy shows up at the girls parents house and meets his girlfriend at the door. “Oh I’m so excited for you to meet my parents, come on in!” The boy goes inside and is taken to the dinner table where the girl’s parents are seated. The boy quickly offers to say grace and bows his head. A minute passes, and the boy still deep in prayer with his head down. 10 minutes passes and still no movement from the boy. Finally, after 20 minutes with his head down, the girlfriend finally leans over and whispers to the boyfriend, “I had no idea you were this religious.” The boy turns, and whispers back, “I had no idea your father was a pharmacist.”

Splenda (alternative sugar replacement) is being sued. Why do you ask or why should you care? Let me explain. Splenda is being sued by their competitors because of their slogan “No Calorie Sweetener is made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar”. The competitors clam Splenda is miss leading consumers by using the word sugar. They shouldn’t have the right to say it’s like sugar. This is so blatantly obvious that the competitors are only suing Splenda to put a dent into there business and hopefully knock their momentum of growth. The competitors are purely competitors of the aspartame product “The Silent Killer”. Why should you care, because Splenda and Stevia are the only current products on the market that are safe and do not have any bad side affects. These products are a must for those that have diabetics. However I do admit I need to do some research on Splenda but Stevia is definitely an awesome sugar replacement. Second reason you should care is because this is so stupid to sue someone over. To be honest this makes me sick and I hope this case gets thrown out of court or Splenda wins.

News sources:
Splenda’s Ads: Sugar-Coated?
Google News Search – Splenda Sued

The motor sports event is coming soon, The Auto Trader Motor sports Spectacular at Saskatchewan Place February 18 to 20, 2005. Yeah I know Saskatchewan Place is now called Credit Union Centre, but to me it will always be Saskatchewan Place. Not sure if I will be attending this event or not. I would like to but will have to see.

This is another classic computer comic strip. It was originally created by Jim Davis creator of Garfield comic strip. To my surprise this edition of the comic strip has been altered from Jim Davis’ original post in The Vault Strip at Garfield.com. I have no idea who altered the comic strip but either way it’s quite funny.

This is one of my favorite computer related jokes, explaining an IT project. This joke however can be applied to many other professions too.

I do not know the origin or author for that matter of this story, but it’s well worth the read.

My three year old son had a lot of problems with potty training; and I was on him constantly. One day we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch in between errands. It was very busy, with a full dining room. While enjoying my taco, I smelled something funny, so of course, I checked my seven month old daughter, and she was clean. Then I realized that Matt had not asked to go potty in a while, ! So I asked him and he said, “No.” I kept thinking, “Oh Lord, that child has had an accident and I didn’t have any clean clothes with me.” Then I said, “Matt are you sure you did not have an accident?” “No,” he replied. I just knew that he must have, because the smell was getting worse. Sooooo…. I asked one more time, “Matt, did you have an accident?” Matt jumped up, yanked down his pants, bent over and spread his cheeks and yelled…. “SEE, MOM, IT’S JUST FARTS!!!” While 100 people nearly choked to death on their tacos, he calmly pulled up his pants and sat down to eat his food as if nothing had happened. I was mortified! Some kind elderly people made me feel a lot better, when they came over and thanked me for the best laugh they had ever had!!! Another old gentleman stopped us in the parking lot as we were leaving, bent over to my son and said, “Don’t worry son, my wife accuses me of the same thing all the time.. I just never had the nerve to make the point like you did.

I found this awesome article talking all about why Windows still sucks and why people put up with it all. I don’t agree with it 100% but it has it’s true points. The part I disagree with is the fact that you can avoid all the nightmare. It just takes common sense and little experience with some tweaking. However I agree it is a lot of work and hassle in comparison to really any other OS. Anyways I could go on and on with this topic. Just give this article a read, Why Does Windows Still Suck? by Mark Morford, SF Gate columnist.

Hi everyone. There was a tragic skidoo accident recently of a fellow co-worker’s husband, Brian Sargent. I would like to wish them all the best and to be strong. Take a minute in your prayers for Brian and his family. You can read all about how Brian is doing by reading the blog setup to keep everyone informed. It’s called The Brian Sargent Update.

By default Windows XP presents you with a logon screen with a selectable list of users one may log in with. This is great for most people but under certain circumstances one may want to hide or reveal the selectable list of users. There is two solutions to this common problem. Make sure to be logged in using the Administrator account or have administrative permissions.

• Change Windows XP’s logon style
• You can change the logon style to Window 2000 look and feel. Users would then be required to type in their username and password to login. This does provide the best security solution for concealing user names. Here’s how to change Windows XP logon style.

• Open the “Control Panel” (left mouse click on the Windows Start Menu -> Settings -> Control Panel).
• Open “User Accounts” (left mouse click).
• Select “Change the way users log on and off” (left mouse click).
• Uncheck “Use the Welcome Screen” (left mouse click).

You can take one step further by setting a system option to prevent the last logged in user’s name from appearing in the logon dialog box. This part can only be achieved by editing the Windows Registry using regedit.

• Open regedit application (left mouse click on Windows Start menu -> run).
• Type into the dialog box without quotes, “regedit” and press the Enter key.
• Browse to the following location in regedit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon (double left mouse click on the tree items to expand, single left click to select).
• Create or modify the DWORD value named DontDisplayLastUserName by setting the value to 1 (one). To create the DWORD value go to the menu Edit -> New -> DWORD value. To modify left double mouse click on DontDisplayLastUserName.

• This step can only be achieved by modifying the Windows registry using regedit.

• Open regedit application (left mouse click on Windows Start menu -> run).
• Type into the dialog box without quotes, “regedit” and press the Enter key.
• Browse to the following location in regedit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MicrosoftWindows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList (double left mouse click on the tree items to expand, single left click to select).
• Create a DWORD value with the name of the Windows XP account username (ie. “foobar” without the double quotes). To create a DWORD value go to the menu Edit -> New -> DWORD value. Type in desired username and press Enter.
• Set the value of the new DWORD value you just created to 0 (zero, hides) or 1 (one, visible) (left double mouse click on the new DWORD value to set value).