I have not post here in over three years.  I have have had my blog on TypePad since 07/2003.  You can check Howard's Notebook and see what I been doing for the last few years.  

  I have a number of other sites.  I miss LiveJournal.  Those were the good old days.

 

 

I am still alive. I am 65 years old and living in Miami FL.
For the past few years I have been posting to my blog: ShowMeBlog
www.showmeblog.com

Please come and check it out.

I have not been updating this LiveJournal. I have been using other software for the last year or two. My current blog can be found at: ShowMeBLOG www.showmeblog.com

I have not been posting here. I am now using the new TypePad service as my diary. I miss LiveJournal. I just can't support all the things I am playing with....

There is a hell of a virus out there...I guess it is, in fact, a worm..But..it is a son of a bitch. If your running Windows XP or Windows 2000 you need to take action right now. Check out my web site: Howard's Notebook for some details on it.

What it does is this.. a worm has been sent out and is all over the place and it keeps sending out copies of it's self to computer..and it runs.. and does a number of things.. opens up 20 or so of YOUR ports and sends it's self out and attacks.. MS update site. It also.. and this hit me.. all the computers here except one.. it would fill the buffer here and then the give a message and re-boot the computer each 5 minutes or so.. Yes.. four or five computers.. re-booting each 5 minutes..
The fix is easy.. MS has a download..

But if your runing Windows XP or 2000 you need to install the fix and right now.

Anyone trying to access the HNB Web Portal at the url of www.hnbphp.com has not been able to get access for over 12 hours.
A hacker got access to the hosting company Name Server.


I hope we will be back online soon. Like I said it has been over 12 hours now.

You can keep up to date on what is going on at: The Naked Nudist

Hilary was all excited about seeing a lizard on the wall of the house next door. It was pretty good size. She said she would cut the grass from now on..she is fearful Jimmy is going to run over it.. Well the grass is getting high in the yard.



Hilary loves lizards and snakes and stuff like that.. come to think of it.. so did LaDawna and Ken.

Jimmy and I do not care for them at all.

I guess I will use the LiveJournal again.

Just what will the content be? That is the question.

I have my web site: Howard's Notebook and then I have The Diary of a Naked Leftist Liberal. I run that using Movable Type software.
Then I have the ShowMeBlog and I run that using the Xanga people.

I need, in my head, to sort out just what goes on each.

I am thinking that on The Naked Leftist Liberal that would be more about about is going on in the world and how I feel about politics and stuff like that..
I am sure that with the ShowMeBlog ..now ..that I want to post a photo or two and tell a bit of a story on that one.. So it will be family photos and stuff like that..and then the story that goes with it.. Something like that.

NOW if I can stick with that.. then that would leave this LiveJournal for my real "diary" and that is what it was in the past. The problem is that I set down and start typing and thing blend and merge and conbine. But I am going to try and do it this way..

I am going to make a note to myself..and try and remind myself ..what each of these should be.. It will not be easy for me.. Sopmetimes I forget which one I am typing into..

Wish me luck.

I am working hard on HNB Web Portal and Howard's Notebook.
One of the services that the HNB Web Portal offers is a free journal/diary. I want to try it out and I want to learn all about what can be done with it.

So I am NOT going to be posting here to the LiveJournal for awhile. I may return later.. But come and read my diary at HNB Web Portal. You will see "Journal" listed. Or click on my user name there and you can find it.

After I have given it a full test run and when I decided what I am going to do ..then I will return here and update you on.. things.. I will let you know if I am going to return to using the excellent LiveJournal here, that I have been using for years, or if I am going stop using this LiveJournal.

If any of you want a free diary come and sign up at HNB Web Portal and get one. It is free of course.

I WILL BE SEEING YOU.

I took a cab to the post office and the cab driver waited for me. It cost $20.00 for the round trip.

It was nice to get back home so fast. Talking a cab saves me a lot of time.

I think in a few days I may change Darlene's web site over to the PHP-Nuke software. I think it would work out well for her.

Well Hilary was up all night on the computer and did not make it to work. I did not make it to the post office. I will go by cab tomorrow. Hilary does not like to go to the post office and I hate to ask her. Jimmy got called into work early.
Jimmy has to go into work tomorrow at 11 am. There is a guy at work that only speaks Spanish that does not like white people. The kid has been telling people that he is going to beat Jimmy up. I am sure Jimmy is concerned about it. I guess this kid is sort of nuts.

Dar's VCR broke. She got the VCR out of the living room. I ended up with the DVD player out of her room.

I made a lot of progress on Howard's Web Protal and I am starting to learn a few things about the way the program works.

I was sending out video on CameraWare today for hours. They have just released a new version of the software. Not sure what changes they have made to it. My membership with them has expired. I guess I am not going to renew.



I got to wake Jimmy at 10 am. I am not sure when I am going to the post office.

A new version of TrackerCAM software came out on the 16th. I do not see any changes to it at all.

Jimmy at to be at work at 4 pm. It started to rain a few minutes before 4 pm and rained for about 5 minutes. Jimmy did not want to walk in the rain to work. So he took the red car. I guess he make it to work with the car. Now we have to worry if the car will make it back.
But since he has the car up there. I am going to walk up and get some stuff at the store. Put it in the trunk of the car and then walk back home. When Jimmy comes home he can drive the car home and we can unload it.

Well just got back the store. Now Jimmy can drive the car home and we will have some of the stuff we need.

Dar says here VCR does not work. I guess she is going to take the one in the living room. She could have the one in my room but I tape stuff for her all the time. On her TV she does not get cable. So I record stuff for her every day.

I hear cables and stuff falling upstairs so I guess Russ is going to hook it up for her.

I just logged onto the jury duty site and put in a request for them to have me serve on a later date. You can not get out of the jury duty online but you can request juror duty at a later date. I had to give a reason. I guess I could have just taken the easy way out and put out of town or something. But I put down that I have to make bathroom visits very often and that my feet have been swelling and I need time to seek medical treatment or learn to live with the problem.
I am not going to get treatment however.. so I guess when I hear from them again.. I will have to serve. Hard to do jury duty, for me, without money, without a car and with the problems that I do have.... I am in good health ..except I need to visit the bathroom about each hour or hour and a half. Also my hearing is very bad. I am not sure..what type of setup they have in the court room. If they have a PA system.. often ...I can not make out a word that is being said.. Something about sound level hitting my ears at different level or something.. Not sure..what it is..
It is too bad I can not just say ..I have medical problems.. But they want paper work from a doctor. I guess..it the hearing is a problem.. I will just have to turn up .. and if it is a problem..I will have to tell them then... I am sure..they will take me off jury duty for sure.. Problem is they may keep calling me unless I have paper work from a doctor. I have never seen a doctor for my hearing lost.
I wonder if I could go to one of those testing places that want to sell you a hearing aid. Which I can not afford. I wonder if they tested me ..if they would give me paper work showing how bad my hearing loss is.. and if I could use that paper work to ...I bet I could not unless it was a doctor that filled it out.

I heard from Ken today via eMail. He said.. he was having a bit of a problem getting around my new web page. Also he wished me a happy Father's day and said he hoped that I had a supply of Coke on hand. Fact is I am out of Coke.

Well I have made great progress on my new Howard's Web Portal and I am very happy with the way it looks.

The software is PHP-Nuke and I am having a few little programs but not many. The main problem that I have is when I go to type "Nuke" I always type "Nude" ..hard time breaking the habit of typing nude.
The program is written in PHP and I think it would be worth while for me to learn to do some coding in PHP. Next time I get over to the library I will see if they have any books on PHP. I have had a few little problems pop up and I think if I just knew a little PHP or had a good book on it I could correct the problems.
I get getting an error on my listing of other web sites. I think it has something to do with the size of the page or photo being displayed.

I did install a great photo album plug in. It is great. Now I can have all my photo gallery and albums right on my site and have more control over the way the present. I just set up three albums so far. One I setup is for visitors to my site to post photos of themself. I have had two people do that so far. I think that is going to be great. I always wonder what the people look like that visit my site and now I can see them.

In my diary and my blogs I get very personal and often mention names well the new software has let me setup a cast of players and as soon as I get all the names in ..you can look up the names you see here. I am just starting on that project. I think I can make it interesting. I have not attempted to put any photos in but.. I think we can do all of that.


Well Hilary was up all night. Not sure if she is on the computer now or sleeping. Jimmy is sleeping. He has to be at work at 5 pm.

Russ and Dar are awake.

I have to go to the post office. Hilary will take me. I will get a cab home. It is raining plus I want to get back to work on Howard's Internet Portal.

A small storm came thur Dallas today and power went on and off a number of times again. And.. bang.. no Internet service. I checked to see what the problem was.. and we lost the new Router that I had used to replace the blown hub. They both had been plugged into the same plug. That plug however was in a UPS unit.
I am not sure. .maybe the power surge is coming in over the cable line. Not sure what is going on..
But I do not have enough hubs now for everyone.. I got to keep Dar online..she makes money with her computer.. Selling on the Internet.

Well.. now I am going to see who gets hooked to a hub. When I get money on the 28th of this month I am going to buy an 8 port hub. Both the hubs we have left are 4 port hubs. One of them thou is at the end of the lline for the two computers up stairs.

Well going to check.. here and make sure.. that.. everything is plugged into the best protection that I can..
Going to see how I can hook everyone up. I think.. what I will have to do.. Is cut back to one computer and run the video on that computer and do my stuff on the same computer. That may mean that I have to take the video down from time to time to work on some project that needs on the computer CPU.
When I get my money on the 28th I will buy an 8 port hub and I will see if I can get a new bigger and better UPS unit.

It only took about a few minutes to get the Router setup to allow streaming video. So we are back up with the streaming video.

I checked out the video and then looked at the last photo taken and saved before we lost power. Here is that photo. I was laying on the bed, nude of course, and when the storm hit I jumped up to put my pants on and shut down the computers.

I found the bad hub. I am not sure about the hub upstairs. Both Dar and Russ are sleeping.

I had to hook up a Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router (WRT54G). So we are all behind it and behind it's firewall. So WebCamXP and TrackerCAM are not working at this time. I have to see how I go about telling the Router to route the ports to the computer. I have attemped to mess with this problem in the past and it is a bitch.

I will start working on the problem now.. The camera programs are running and I will try and fix the problem and I hope you can see the video soon. I am, at this time, sending out video via CameraWare. It is not streaming and it works behind the Router firewall. So if you want to see me trying to fix the problem.. You can see me at: http://www.hnbbs.com/blog/current.htm

If you can read lips I am sure your going to see that I am not happy.

Had a storm come thur here at about 10 pm last night. A lot of power problems. The power here was going on and off very fast. We shut down things as fast as we could and about 2 hours later... when we turned on the computers no Internet connection. I checked everything.. still no connection. I went to bed.

I just woke up and no Internet connection. So I took the connection out of the cable modem and went right into my computer and I got an Internet connection. So the problem must be in one of the hubs. So I am going to check on that..but wanted to post something here.. Wish me luck.

Jimmy has been sleeping all day... I think it has been over 12 hours now.. I am starting to worry. But I guess that is all dads do is worry.

Jimmy is off work until Friday.

Well I put the link on the web page for my new site: http://216.67.231.40/~hnbbs/phpnuke/ The domain name still has not kicked in yet.