| Saturday,
November 9, 2002 Column is nearly done but it keeps
sprouting other stuff.
The world's cutest puppy -- pictures later -- is now big enough to get
into everything. She has figured out that there's something about
poop that upsets these humans, so it's better to put it outside, but she
also thinks that if she can see the outside through the windows in French
doors, that's probably the right place. But she is learning...
Thank heaven for Nature's Miracle. One product eliminates odors.
Another tastes horrible and stops her chewing anything it is sprayed on.
And she's growing and getting smarter every day...
She also got her foot caught in a door I was trying to close, but no
harm done, and she didn't think it was me who did it. As I say, pictures
later.
Column going well, the rain here was just right, no mud slides, and
there was enough to end the fire season.
Yesterday I had some spam. It so upset Norton and Outlook that it
wouldn't even load or delete: somehow it was making a call to a
non-existent file, and blowing up Norton Anti-Virus. The odd thing that is
first I was getting messages telling me about this thing -- Norton is set
to just delete stuff without bothering me -- so I ran Norton Live Update.
BIG mistake. After that, Norton not only popped up to tell me things
I didn't need to know, but couldn't deal with this at all.
The remedy yesterday was to get the people who run Rocket where my mail
is kept to delete the offending messages; but that's a temporary thing.
Today I downloaded and set up Mozilla. Norton still had problems with that
mail, but we fixed most of those, and Mozilla let me download the horrible
stuff so I could delete it, then let Outlook go get all the non-deleted
mail left on the server. That worked. It will be in the column, but the
real problem is NORTON Anti-Virus which apparently doesn't know how to
deal with W32.Yaha.F@mm although it does detect
it. This thing tries to call a file that Norton won't let it create, a .tmp
file, and when it can't get it, it blows Norton up. I hope the
Norton crew finds a remedy soon.
Until then I can use Mozilla to go get mail and delete bad stuff.
Mozilla, interestingly enough, has a horrible INDEX, but it doesn't need
one: things are organized quite well and in a logical manner, in contrast
to Microsoft which sticks important things in different places and makes
you play guessing games. I know Microsoft has legacy problems, but
the solution to that is to do a sane organization and either provide a
good index, or have duplicate ways to accomplish something -- the old
legacy way, and a sane way.
With Mozilla, if you believe it's organized logically, you can find
everything about where you would expect it to be. It sets up well. I may
convert to it as a web browser. My only problem is that when I told
Mozilla to be my web browser, it also decided it was my default web page
editor and disenfranchised FrontPage. I didn't tell it to do that, and I
don't want it to do that, and until I can figure out how to make it stop
doing that, Mozilla is exiled to be called in only when
needed.
Sable has decided I don't want to play just now so she's watching me
from the cave under my desk. She likes it there. Pictures later...
I have been requested to put up a special puppy picture page. I'll get
to that when I finish some other work. Thanks for the suggestion...
And I have mail saying "The Republicans obstructed Clinton's
judicial appointments too."
I never said otherwise. Read what I did say. I was making a prediction.
I will say that the Democrats managed to make a fine art of not allowing
judicial appointments even to come to the hearing stage, but it's not
important who started what. When I was younger the Senate was a collegial
house, and Senators found each other more important, and the Senate as an
institution more important, than they did their party or their
relationships with the White House. Presidents come and go, but the Senate
steht immer. That has been lost. The Thomas hearings, and the Bork
hearings, were both symptoms and causes of the breakdown of self
government into something less pretty.
It's not unusual and it wasn't unpredicted. It's still something to
note, and to be concerned about.
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