He looks to be less than a year old, is very friendly, and is not afraid of people. He has no collar.

If this is your cat, or you think you know who he belongs to, call 347-0757, or e-mail eggertson@gmail.com.

Posted: Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

See the full-sized picture of the cat we found.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
2920 Regina Avenue
(between Retallack and Robinson)
347-0757
eggertson@gmail.com

Come for a little time, come for a long time…

There will be space for youngish and/or young people to hang out away from the more seasoned guests.

We hope to see you!

If you don’t understand servers or WordPress, skip this post.

Permissions on the server have been a sore point from day one.

I can FTP files to the server, but when I try to use WordPress’ admin panel, I can’t install plugins or themes.

My queries to the hosting service result in a combination of responses from “we don’t provide support for any applications you put on our server,” to “gee, you should have told us about that two months ago. It’s a database problem that only we can fix.”

The latest go-round was about trying to get WordPress working, or canceling my account.

Now the server has been configured to allow WordPress to create files, etc., but I can’t FTP anything to the server any more.  I have the option of one method or the other.  So how do I change the images in my WordPress theme?  The files are on my computer.  I want them on the server.  Ugh.  Now I’ll have to go through every fricking option on the server control panel and see if there’s a file upload function that doesn’t involve FTP, or that bypasses the permissions.

My ignorance of WordPress is showing. Why can I only post items to the blog through WordPress, or via FTP, but not both?  How can you even use WordPress if you have no control over any of the files on the server, except what WordPress lets you do?  Back to WordPress to go laboriously through every fricking menu option to see where File Upload is hiding.  Will it let me choose where on the server to post something?  What file path do I use?  This is going to be fun…

I’ll keep trying this weekend, but it’s becoming painfully obvious to me that I just don’t have the technology chops to get everything set up properly, troubleshoot everything, and tweak WordPress. I’ve never given up on a piece of software or a technology environment before because I just couldn’t get it to work properly.  Usually I keep slogging, get a geek friend to help me with the tricky parts, and persevere.

But this business of having tech support that plays cat and mouse with what they will and won’t support is just annoying. This site advertises that they have one-step WordPress installation.  Well, installation hasn’t been the problem. It’s doing anything with it that’s the problem.

Argh.

Today I read an argument that your food choice make a big difference in the amount of water used. A pound of potatoes: 24 gallons. A pound of beef: 5,214 gallons. After all these years of having “environmental impact” and “environmental footprint” thrown at me, I see it in terms that make sense.

Water conservation has always meant to me fixing dripping taps, improving industrial production, and reducing lawn care in the suburbs…

I’ve known about the argument for eating beans and other things at the bottom of the food chain, but no one ever put it in context of water conservation for me before.

(No, that doesn’t mean you can take 20-minute showers guilt-free if you’re vegan.)

Finding more environmentally-friendly ways to raise cattle is a step in the right direction. I’d find it hard to give up beef altogether.

Now, on to milk. A dairy cow uses 115 litres of water a day? I’m not sure I can handle soy milk to go with my lentils. I’ll have to do more reading on this.

Baby steps, Eric. Baby steps…

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Thanks for your patience!

My b5media public relations blog is at http://commonsensepr.com 

For my photos, visit Flickr.

Thanks for dropping by. Hope to see you again soon!

ERIC

I’m looking at various wikis as possible platforms for most of the information. And I was assuming I could possibly piggyback on a platform like Facebook, a photo sharing site, or something like that.

Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated!

Leave me a note here, or e-mail me at eggertson (at) gmail. (dot) com.

Tags: reunions, wvss, high school, wikis, blogs, websites, west vancouver

 Starting June 1, Tod Maffin is hosting a live video show on blogtv.ca.

According to the Todster, it’s about personal technology, and will feature 45 minutes of live call-in (via computer) every Friday night.

Tod says he has funding from Alliance Atlantis for the web TV show, which will include visits to various technology companies across Canada.

One thing’s for sure: there’s nothing on regular TV Friday nights to compete.

Good luck, Tod.

Tags: tod maffin, tv, video, canadian, tech, gadgets, todbits, webtv, live, blogtv.ca

For a play about rural Saskatchewan, the setting is just right. Dancing Sky Theatre operates out of a converted community hall in the village of Meacham, east of Saskatoon. There is room for just over 100 seats, plus a restaurant where you can get a meal before the show.

The silences and pauses are the best part of the play. As funny as many of the lines are, the unspoken disagreement between the farmer and his son say more about their relationship.

O’Shea puts a new twist on the story of passing on the family farm to a new generation. In this case,  the father wants his son to escape the financial burden of keeping a farm running, but the son prefers farming to anything else he’s tried.

Of the staged readings, productions and broadcasts I’ve come across on this subject, most are way too earnest or melodramatic. Nice to see a professional cast breathe life into a good script.

O’Shea’s first play Dogbarked started at Dancing Sky and progressed to the Prairie Theatre Exchange and the Globe Theatre. That’s precisely what a theatre like Dancing Sky is supposed to do: allow Canadian plays to prove there are stories written here that can make good theatre.

The Red Truck, by James O’Shea, directed by Angus Ferguson. Patricia Drake, Tom O’Hara and Rob Roy.  Music by Ernie Kurz, lighting design by Denise Hansen.

See also:  For Love, not Money, Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, Dogbarked, Dogbarked Study Guide (PDF).

Tags: james o’shea, dancing sky theatre, meacham saskatchewan, the red truck, drama, plays, prairie, playwright

Since I’m married to the playwright, I’ll avoid bias and just say this is a superb play that tackles the myth of the perfect woman as defined by controlling men.

Rose is a fairy tale princess who falls for Prince Charming. The results are dramatic. I’ll be there Monday night.  Looking forward to seeing Kate Herriott as the fairy godmother, Greg Ochitwa as Prince Charming, and Talitha Cuthbert as Rose.

Language and sexuality warning, blah, blah.  Call the UofR box office at 585-5500, for tickets, or bug the Theatre department.

Here’s Kelley Jo’s website (just three pages so far, but more to come).