Sigh... The new weblog (diary) has finally been put into place. As always, there's a glitch. The search function no longer works. The search software refuses to index the new pages. Now there are literally hundreds of reasons why the search software gives up on a page, and the logs of course don't seem to enumerate the precise reason. They only note that the pages have been bypassed. I'm really getting sick of software. Fix one thing and another breaks, and it takes weeks to track down the problem. Ad infinitum.

Then there's the Quicken software which manages my books. They've got a 'year-end archive' function which strips out all the old records and lets you start fresh. I've been doing this on January 1 for the last few years. But this year I've got more than one bank account. Come to find out it only archives one account, and it's the wrong one. There's no place to configure which account gets archived or to archive more than one. Luckily I kept a backup. But it means I can't archive anymore. Just have to keep all the records in the current file forever it seems. Which means that the program is going to get slower and slower crunching old data until it eventually chokes. Maybe this year, maybe next - but it will eventually choke. (Just like the weblog, which I likewise still haven't figured out how to stop choking.) Sigh...

On the bright side, hardware is getting easier. I grabbed a wireless unit from the shoppe and decided to try it out in my studio. It's winter and the garage is a bit on the chilly side. But I've still got the whole-house audio. I can plug some headphones into the wall in my bedroom. And it's a top-of-the-line wireless unit that goes through a few walls. So that means I can play my flying V in the bedroom and take advantage of the processor in the garage that's set for the infamous 'Eddie VH - playing through a Marshall stack - in a coliseum'. And without having to cart a bunch of heavy equipment upstairs.