This morning marked the end of my relaxing four day holiday weekend. Like many Americans, I had last Friday off in observance of Independence day. I also had Monday off as a special Qualcomm celebration of the 35th anniversary of their founding. Last night Daniel helped me drop off the minivan for repair. It is 10 years old and holding up well for its age. Honda, like Toyota, makes quality, solid vehicles....

Where have you been? Somewhere around 1998, someone created a tool which I wish I’d known about: sitecopy. And it does what I’d been doing a decade ago for bilikfamily.com but in a different manner. When I was writing entries at my site, I’d usually create it all on my local computer, preview it, and when happy with it, “deploy” it (i.e. upload it) to my web server. This is one common approach with smaller sites that aren’t Amazon, Facebook, etc....

When it rains, it pours. Or as Roseanne Roseannadanna liked to say, “If it’s not one thing, it’s another. But it’s always something.” (Example from YouTube) Saturday morning I went to get groceries and noticed that the key fob (aka the van remote) couldn’t do anything. Upon further examination, I found that the unlock button had seized. After unloading the groceries Timothy and I worked to open up the fob layer by layer....