The question in my mind is: am I actually publishing the post or just hitting Save? As you can see … the two buttons are side-by-side in the Wordpress screen where you write posts.

Although I can’t be sure, I don’t think so. I never click Save, because WP auto-saves posts every few minutes. And I’m pretty sure I can’t have made that mistake so many times.

So I’m wondering if there’s a bug in Wordpress … and if anyone else has noticed it. I think there is, and I think I might even know where/when it is. I say where/when, because my guess is that the problem might be occuring when two things happen at the same time: Wordpress auto-saves a post, and simultaneously, I click Publish.

I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue. To help me find out, I’m now going to very deliberately click PUBLISH.

With no further ado … here they are:

• Business card printing
• Business school
• Affordable Toner Cartridges
• Business christmas cards
• Staffing & Employment Leaders
• Address Label
• Performance Management
• Vector Marketing
• Collectibles
• Briefcases

Thanks, all!

I can only assume that Microsoft screwed up something in the initial update horribly, and needs to rectify its error with yet another massive update.

Not cool!

To date I have spent more time updating Office 2008 than actually using it.

Oddly, over the past 5 years I have never actually taken all my allotted vacation time … but I intend to this year. The benefits are just too great, and the costs too high, to take less. I’m not only talking about the most important reasons to take vacations: spending time with family and friends. I’m also talking about the renewed vigor and changed perspectives that you can take back with you to the office.

Resolution: to take my vacation time in the future. (I have another 2 weeks coming up later this year.)

On a related note, a vacation-oriented quote I recently saw:

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Vacation is also a valuable time to sort out priorities and goals …

“Pardon him … he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
- George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

Saw it on Bruce Byfield’s blog …

Teresa and I took the kids to see WALL-E last night (great movie, paradigm-breaker, lots of fun). One particularly interesting part for long-time Mac users are the Mac start-up sounds that accompany WALL-E’s and EVE’s reboot cycles. Notcot has already noticed that EVE is an iPod of the future (can’t wait to get that incredible laser attachment) but you never would have guess that the rusty, clunky WALL-E runs Mac OS X.

There weren’t wholesale signs of recognition among the crowd in the theatre that I could recognize, but I’m sure that the levels will rise in future years …

The game was tough - the Mariners were down 8-1 and 12-5 in early innings, but managed to tighten up the defense and tune up the bats to squeak out a nail-biting heart-stopping 14-13 win in the final inning.

Richard Schorn (second from left in the back) and I coached the team this year, and the team probably needed more coaching today than any time in the past year. Winning is great but it doesn’t always prepare you for challenges, and the kids were having a tough time early, getting down on themselves for playing beneath their potential. But they pulled it out in the mid to late innings and won the game with a RBI home run.

Ethan had a good game, getting on base 3 out of 4 at-bats, with a couple RBI.

The most amazing stat is the 3 solid unbeaten seasons. That’s hard to believe, even for me - and I’ve help coach the team all those years. Somehow, we’ve always found a way to win. It’s been a good run, but it’s now over: next year all teams get broken up and new teams will be formed.

Congrats Ethan and the rest of the Mariners!

“It’s so disappointing,” said Linda Wilmesherr as she peered through binoculars at water pouring through a gap that appeared to be 30 feet wide. “With all the guns in this county, couldn’t we kill a muskrat?”

The poor woman is of course dealing with the possibility of her house disappearing in floodwaters …

First impression: wow! The screen is amazing and the speed is great.

Second impression: Apple Migration Assistant failed to assist, and all our user accounts, data, and applications are still on the old iMac.

Time to do some research …

Which means I’m cooling my heels in a Toronto airport hotel (not literally, it’s muggy here) until tomorrow …

The cameras will have to wait.