Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Added an original fiction page today. I also made a slight adjustment that might not be noticable depending on your screen resolution. Hopefully, I didn't mess things up for you, the reader of this stuff. I probably won't edit the older pages much. Besides, I'm still learning how to do these website/HTML thingies so bear with me here. I might keep things the way they are on the older pages so I can see how things have developed over time as I slowly learn more about how all this works. Wednesday, October 9, 2002 Are you backing up your computer?  If not, I'd recommend you start.  Today if at all possible. I've been offline!  I hate being offline.  I especially hate having a computer that refuses to work and I have to reinstall everything from scratch because I made a mistake in choosing a backup device! Well, okay.  Maybe I shouldn't blame my backup device, (an OnStream Digital Drive), for all of my troubles.  The instructions never said that I couldn't use it to back up my entire system and then restore the entire system later.  How was I supposed to know that when Windows is running that some of the little programs that Windows likes to run couldn't even be copied?  (And I'm not talking about a few either.)  (I suppose I should have realized you can't restore a system over a running system too.  Now that was dumb!) It would have been nice if the people at OnStream would thought about us single system users and would have included a DOS version of their software so that we could backup the entirety of our Windows operating systems. It would have been even nicer if I would have done more research on the OnStream Digital Drive in the first place.  I would not have purchased it if I knew then, what I know now.  I still don't have everything re-installed.  I might have to return this notebook of mine back to the factory condition . . . yet again, and start over.  We'll see. While I'm considering other backup options, I must ask you, what are you doing for your backup?  Are you backing up?  When I asked people who should know better, that question, many of them said that they don't back up.  Even people, (most of whom are computer techs), don't backup.  Based on my past few experiences with lost data, lost time and frustration, that's frightening to me.  At least one person, who works at a computer place you might have heard of, CDW, said that he doesn't backup his computer right now, but he will start soon.    Monday, September 2, 2002 Well, yesterday afternoon I started going through a tutorial and redoing the pages for my website.  Now, the tutorial had a bunch of nested tables and I had previously read an article about not using nested tables because they take longer to load.  Well, I had to try it anyway.  Frankly, I like the new look I ended up with.  I shall have to test it by uploading it and seeing if it takes longer to load than my original page or if it loads more quickly. Well, one thing I noticed and I haven't even uploaded these new versions yet.  Some of my stuff on the sides are crowded together in Netscape 4.7. Well, time to get back to my writing for a while. The fictional stuff that is.     Return to top of page.   I...uhm...don't think I'm ready for email yet.    ;-) Primary Content Copyright © 2002 B. J. Miller Jr. All Rights Reserved