Test Blog Mini June 3, 2010
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This is June 3, 2010, checking mobile post.
NSCAVE News #11 January 8, 2010
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Unfortunately NSCAVE News will be discontinued for the foreseeable future.
Although WordPress is the most popular blog service and editing tool it has not worked well for our purposes. It rejects posts saying it does not publish pictures when in fact there are none in the post. It has consumed hours of time trying to get a simple post to work where other forms take only minutes.
This is not to downplay WordPress in any way as its number of users prove otherwise in many ways.
Thank you to our readers and followers. Our sister publications will continue at NSCAVE.com and RoseGarden.
Merry Christmas from Panama City Beach December 25, 2009
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Merry Christmas to all our families, friends and readers from Panama City Beach, Florida.
-=One Day At A Time=-
NSCAVE News #10 December 19, 2009
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The temporary transfer to Panama City Beach, Florida, was made successfully. Even though the weather here is cold by their standards, I find it quite satisfying to check the traffic cams daily and see the frigid cold I am missing back home.
Does Santa Claus Come Here?
I was wondering if Santa Claus will arrive here the same as everywhere else. With no snow, that sleigh will drag a little hard on landing and take off. Maybe the sleigh has wheels on the runners like roller blades, do you think?
MetroFactor
Our online racing at MetroFactor has been jumping around a bit as we try to work things out since my departure from the scene for a few months. With limited member drivers available the decision now is for the drivers to practise and race with each other when they can without a set schedule.
For the remainder of the time they will join other online tracks and race with larger groups, which makes it more realistic and more competitive.
Email Gripe
My email rant is still almost the same, only more so. I am now receiving those forwarded Christmas and other emails four or five times, not just twice. Although it is nice to hear from everyone, especially when away, it gets pretty boring opening the same old stuff time and time again.
I wonder how many will be offended when I send out a blanket email to all of them asking them to not send me any forwarded stuff, that I won’t be reading any forwarded emails, movies, powerpoint presentations and so on?
-=One Day At A Time=- (¯`·._.·ns¢ävË·._.·´¯)
NSCAVE News #9 December 3, 2009
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Trip preparations for my southern excursion are almost complete after many delays and set backs. How’s that saying go, “Expect the unexpected.” Things are now in hand and next weeks NSCAVE News likely won’t be published. The following week it should originate from ‘snowbird’ country.
Avast Sends False Positives
I have used Avast as a virus and malware deterrent for a number of years. Yesterday they had a bad update that I am sure is causing them a lot of grief. At least it caused their customers grief for a short time. You can read about that at the RoseGarden.
MetroFactor Practise…
is still ongoing. The main delay is me, while I decide whether I can move my end of the operation south with me. Here everything is wired in solidly, and it is no easy task to get portable.
It should be interesting doing the temporary move and it will be mentioned here once our schedule gets officially under way.
NSCAVE Christmas Pages
At this time of year NSCAVE usually has a number of Christmas pages on the go. For the same reasons this has been put on hold, I hope temporarily. This should take place shortly if I can fit it in this busy schedule.
I can’t believe Christmas is only little more than a couple weeks away.
Sounds like I am making a bunch of excuses, and I am. This venture is new to me – what a way to get a buzz on!
-=One Day At A Time=- (¯`·._.·ns¢ävË·._.·´¯)
NSCAVE News #8 November 28, 2009
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I tried not to miss yesterday, which is like saying I started to stay up. However things are getting busy once again as a planned trip to the southern climate had to be delayed.
This was sort of expected, but not exactly in the way that it was delayed. If this sounds confusing and doesn’t make much sense, then you are beginning to understand how the week went and why I missed publication yesterday.
Control Your Computer With Chip Implants
That was the subject in one of my recent newsletters. Seems in a couple years time we will be able to control our computers by using the electrical impulses from our brain with chips installed at various locations in our heads.
Now I haven’t studied up much on this, but can imagine all sorts of things. For example:
- Will virus still mean the same thing. What happens when you get a cold or the flu?
- If you have a headache or a migraine, does your computer crash.
- If you are in a grumpy or bad mood, does the computer act up?
- Will the computer run slower in the morning until after you have your coffee?
There’s more, but you get the idea.
Ho Ho Mail
In my continuing comments about email, it gets worse. Now the repeat Christmas emails are doing the rounds again. I don’t click on electronic Christmas cards anymore, seen them all before anyway.
Then there’s the PowerPoint presentations that some yuk put together. Pictures or some crap that someone thinks is cute.
Or how about the flash presentations where you click on this and that to put a star on the tree and turn on the pretty lights. Hope they are LED. Actually there was one I liked, the dang tree blew up.
That was real good.
Anyway there should be short note next Thursday, then if this delayed planned trip gets under way I will probably miss one Thursday in order to get set up in sunny Florida. Or is that a planned delayed trip? Hmm… not sure about that one, more research is required.
-=One Day At A Time=- (¯`·._.·ns¢ävË·._.·´¯)
NSCAVE News #7 November 19, 2009
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This is the time of year when the sun is so far south it barely gets up. The sun barely lights the North yards of some tall buildings. And if you have to walk anywhere it is very dangerous trying to check for cars as you look directly into the sun which seems almost at ground level in that direction.
MetroFactor
Mentioning MetroFactor racing here a couple times brought the response that it is too bad you can’t show what it is like on the website. Well we can to a degree. We don’t have the capability of recording our own races yet, but all you have to do is type “VHR stockcar” without the quotes into YouTube and you will find all kinds of samples.
You will be amazed how real it is. I also put a couple links of some good samples from YouTube on the MetroFactor gallery page in the left hand menu area.
Email Makes The Rounds
Yes I am still harping about this. Now I am getting emails for the sixth and seventh time. “Don’t let this candle go out.” “If you support our troops you won’t let this end here.”
The first is usually a cancer message, having lost my wife to that terrible disease I am well aware of it and support most of its causes, but not this one. Your candle is going to go out when it reaches my in box.
The second is self explanatory, but the message has reached the point of ‘give it up.’ Indications that you don’t have a heart if you don’t send this on, or you are a non-supporter if you delete this message are crazy.
I don’t know about you, but I have no intention of sending it on seven or more times. My filters will send it back to you, so I guess the keeps it going doesn’t it.
Short and sweet this week. I don’t want to mention Christmas yet. I’ve had some frustrations planning my upcoming trip, so I will just slide on out of here ‘till next week.
-=One Day At A Time=- (¯`·._.·ns¢ävË·._.·´¯)
NSCAVE News #6 November 12, 2009
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Another week has gone by which included Remembrance Day yesterday, Nov. 11th. For once it was a decent day weather wise in most places and it was good to see the turn out of people who care was large in number, perhaps even larger than some previous years. This proves we will never forget.
MetroFactor Forum
One of the biggest happenings at NSCAVE in the MetroFactor section was the loss of our forum. This forum is used by our race drivers for information and news, such as race results and penalties for each scheduled race.
It seems some hacker or other means was used to place a couple links for less than ideal web sites in the forum and the administrator password changed so admin access wasn’t possible. The only way to fix the problem was to go into the master control panel and delete the entire forum. This means all membership data as well as information items was totally lost.
The forum is being rebuilt from the ground up with different software and previous members will be emailed a new user name and password. The forum is now completely closed and no access is possible unless you have been given access information by admin. In addition a logging process now logs the IP address and email address of any attempt to access the forum.
This is unfortunate because in the previous instance visitors were able to read what was going on and if anything tweaked their interest or if they were interested in online racing they could apply for membership.
Membership is now only available through MetroFactor or if invited by admin.
NSCAVE
These are busy times because as mentioned, preparation is under way for me to operate from a more southern climate this winter. There is a lot of new material to be added to NSCAVE, but the preparation events will keep that from happening until at least December, other than some minor updates during the weeks ahead.
I will be running the site and blogs by remote from the sunshine state. That should prove an interesting challenge. I hope to add a couple new features to RoseGarden during that time. Don’t worry, I have personnel stationed at the home front on site 24 hrs a day just in case all this remote operation stuff fails, and we have to push the power switch to power up the systems manually.
Wii Update
I mentioned previously that a Wii entered my life just over a month ago. I wanted to see if they were really effective for exercise. After not missing a day so far (34 days), I can say the exercises seem to work. At least they make you feel better and keep parts moving that you don’t normally use.
The only thing, I wish I could eliminate some of the cartoon buddy’s same old conversations day after day. “You’re a little shaky! Excellent! Good balance. Do you find the exercises more tiring as you do them longer?” – on and on every day, the same old words are spoken, and written on the screen.
There should be a way to bypass those, because to do an hours worth of exercise takes over an hour and a half. I get bored clicking and waiting.
I will do a full review once I spend a little more time with my stick buddies.
-=One Day At A Time=- (¯`·._.·ns¢ävË·._.·´¯)
Lest We Forget November 11, 2009
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NSCAVE News #5 November 6, 2009
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A day late for NSCAVE News once again. Can’t say I am not consistent. The days just fly by and the weeks go even faster. Maybe that will help with that four day work week they used to talk about.
Snow
Hate to use a four letter word in a family rated blog, but I have to. We had our first snow fall for 2009 in Nova Scotia. It wasn’t little, as I looked out the window early this morning it looked like a blizzard and there was about a foot of snow on the ground with the trees bent over in agony from the weight of it.
It won’t stay, but this is early for us. Makes beckoning Florida look pretty good. Snow brushes, shovels and warm boots were the order of the day. It will be gone by tomorrow though – I hope.
MetroFactor
Things are proceeding favourably. Our practice sessions are going well with lots of guest drivers dropping in. We are almost ready to get our 2009-2010 season under way. Everyone is anxious to begin our weekly races. This year the races will be Sunday evenings.
There are some administration issues to take care of, spreadsheets to be made to keep track of points and things of that nature. As MetroFactor admin, it looks like I will be guiding the show from sunny Florida this year and that too will present some unique challenges.
VR Commander
Been looking at a program called VR Commander which allows voice command of many computer actions. The program looks pretty versatile and useful for a lot of things. Often when we are racing at MetroFactor people use the text chat system while driving appearing as if they are typing and driving at the same time, which would be next to impossible.
I am wondering if a program such as this would allow that. I hope to check it out soon and will let you know later.
Other than that it has been a quiet week. Nothing wrong with that.
-=One Day At A Time=- (¯`·._.·ns¢ävË·._.·´¯)
