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Just installed WordPress 2.9.2 via automatic update. No issues so far–booyah.

For those of you wondering why no new photos have been posted for a long time, videos have been basically non-existent, and I took a long hiatus on my website, here’s a big reason why. (This happened a couple months ago.) This rundown may help out some other newbies to some of this moving-from-one-host-to-another stuff:

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I recently did some research for a friend on notebooks that are fast enough for word processing, video viewing, etc. (i.e., faster than netbooks) but at the low end of the available price range. In case anyone else is looking for the same and is not necessarily technically savvy (and thus probably wouldn’t want Linux), here’s what I found:

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It’s past time for me to sleep (“tiiiiime for meeee to flllyyyyyyyy…” Wow, what a wimpy song ). But. I just solved a problem that Microsoft had a ticket for for two weeks and hasn’t offered any solutions for yet, and it’s a recurring problem that has been driving me crazy. It’s been preventing me from taking courses on their website that I have free for a limited time (though I still have my laptop as a way to take the courses). One with such a simple solution that it seems ludicrous. I did find the answer on Microsoft Answers (Microsoft’s “answer” to Yahoo! Answers, I suppose–anything has to be better than that)…but it wasn’t posted by a Microsoft moderator. Anyway, I wanted to share this to save you all some time if you ever see this problem.

Check out the thread, and my comments under the name “hotshot309″ here.

These work well for me in Firefox, but unfortunately, IE 8 opens them in the same window instead of popping up a new one. Arggggh! Thanks, Mike R. and Chuck F., for helping me get this far on this JavaScript. I fixed a typo, but I still don’t have it working in IE. The next thing I’ll try is making sure every possible parameter is specified when I call window.open().

pop-up with default size

800×600 pop-up

Below are my two JavaScript functions. I’m trying to make them as accessible to various browsers as I can. (I added an escaped line break so that WordPress wouldn’t cut off the long line in each function.) Let me know if you have suggestions.

function openNew(url) {

   var width = 400;
   var height = 600;
   var horizMargin = (screen.width - width) / 2;
   var vertMargin = (screen.height - height) / 2;

   var winProps = 'width=' + width + ', height=' + height + ', left=' /
+ horizMargin + ', top=' + vertMargin + ', resizable=yes, scrollbars=1';

   newWindow = window.open(url, 'pop-up', winProps);

   if (window.focus) {
         newWindow.focus();
   }
 }

function openNew2(url, width, height) {

   var horizMargin = (screen.width - width) / 2;
   var vertMargin = (screen.height - height) / 2;

   var winProps = 'width=' + width + ', height=' + height + ', left=' /
+ horizMargin + ', top=' + vertMargin + ', resizable=yes, scrollbars=1';

   newWindow = window.open(url, 'pop-up', winProps);

   if (window.focus) {
         newWindow.focus();
   }
 }