Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

Rottweilers. Computers. Cameras. World Domination. Not necessarily in that order.

Rottweilers.
Computers. Cameras.
World Domination.
Not necessarily in that order.

More pretty pictures!

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I’ve updated our gallery with photos from Freya’s March 13-14 UKC trials.

Thanks to Karen Hollis of Sirius Pet Images for these Freya photos, yes, even this one with Freya’s face planted firmly in the food bowl where it is not supposed to be!

I had a bad technology moment with the gallery. I remembered that I had not installed Gallery 2 using Fantastico… but after I had already started updating it through Fantastico. This often does not go well, especially if you have customized your Gallery 2 installation in any way. Unlike some of the other galleries I maintain, this one is pretty generic, so major disaster did not occur. Panic almost did, when the installation would not verify.

It is much easier to calm down and think straight when you know you have a very recent backup. I highly recommend regular backups, or at least backups before you try to “fix” stuff. After almost panicking, I remembered to check the configuration file, and realized I needed to edit the full paths. All was well after that.

Because I apparently like the stress, though, I’m going to inflict another possible bad technology moment upon myself by moving the gallery to another domain soon. I have too many domains that I don’t really need or want any longer. I’m trying to consolidate, so the gallery will soon be moving to vomviersenrotts.com where it really belongs anyway.

EDITED TO ADD: The gallery has moved and the link has been updated.

(NaBloPoMo | March ’10: 29 of 31)

A little bit o’ ranting, a little bit o’ Rotts, a little bit o’ blog

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The Rottweilers are somewhat perkier than they were yesterday. I had Freya skip breakfast and her obedience class due to her digestive upset, but by afternoon she seemed to be feeling better. She was definitely eager to eat her dinner, bland though it was. Everyone’s ears look better and there’s no scratching and very little head flapping, so perhaps there is no infection, just dirt and waxy buildup.

Unfortunately, they had no outlet for the increased perkiness and energy and general evil, as it rained for most of the day. Again. Yes, AGAIN.

I’m only happy when it rains
I feel good when things are going wrong
I only listen to the sad, sad songs
I’m only happy when it rains
     —Garbage

Ummm. Sorry. Not in agreement. I’m all for a sad song now and again, but I am pretty damn tired of all the rain we’ve been getting, and the total lack of warm weather. I don’t like the super hot humid days that a Chicago summer can bring, but it would be nice to see a tiny bit of global warming in the area.

Since it was an indoor type of day until late afternoon, I took the opportunity to update my underused photo gallery from Gallery 1 to Gallery 2. I think I’m ready to work on organizing the many photos that now reside only on CDs, DVDs or my computer. I’m not quite so ready to work on scanning the many photos that have still never made the jump from old school prints to digital. That’s going to be a major task.

I really have to spend some time tonight and tomorrow and finally catch up on the rest of the magazine stuff, including an ad for Axel. In fact, I’m going to go and do that right now. See you tomorrow!

(NaBloPoMo | June ‘09: 13 of 30 | 75% Challenge: 140 of 274)