The Legacy – Little Site on the Internet

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While watching an old 1982 episode of Little House on the Prairie in 2018, it struck me that an important part of human existence is to make a mark, be remembered, leave a legacy. Otherwise, what’s the point? Born, breed, die? Cockroaches and bugs can do that. Is legacy egoistical thinking? I suppose it depends on what legacy is left. The likes of Stalin left legacies that will be remembered for a long time, but none that I admire. A Little House season 8 episode titled, ‘The Legacy’ opening scene…

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SMF Repair (Fail) Tool

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I’ve been using SMF Forum on my CB radio hobby site for 10+ years with various web hosts.  While moving GCCB this week, the SMF Repair Tool had me stumped. It kept saying no data engine could be found, even though the correct user, password and database name was entered … and it also kept recommending I use https rather than http (http is all I have) I must have wasted 6 hours screwing around because of this “tool” … eventual problem was the database backup from the old host…

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The Rodney Thing – Fundamental Figuring

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Tonight while searching “rodney stevens” on Google … to see where rodneystevens.com is on the rank list, I came across the above video from a guy also called, Rodney Stevens. (no relation as I have an Anglo tan) Unlike Matthew, Muhammad, Kamahl and Cheng … Rodney isn’t a common Australian name ; nor are there many famous Rodney’s world wide.  Rodney Rude and Rodney Dangerfield, two coarse comedians .. and that’s about it. Out of curiosity, I watched the above stranger with same name … I have no idea what…

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Hello (spherical) world!

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Only good thing about the creeping cashless nwo society is the easy (Paypal) refund option  when Domino’s Ashmore makes another crap pizza with stuff  all pepperoni. First post about … well nothing much. Last web host’s (Zuver) annual $36 bill came today … bugger that .. good value for what I got … but takes me two weeks to make that much selling peanut shells … so I just pointed rodneystevens.com to a free web host … thus the odd looking rms.x10host.com address (rms aka my initials) [2019 update: now…

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