The Deep North

The Doctor is In! Like or not, you have to admit, Dr. Ron Paul is a new kind of cool. Personally, I like it. He just raised about $5.9 Million dollars in the past 24 hours. As far as I know, that's a new record and the money is still pouring in so fast they can't count it. I expect that if you count donations that were attempted before midnight they easily pass the Six Million Dollar mark.

It always annoys me no end when I get messages like the following: "The system cannot execute the specified program." I got the above error from Windows XP when I tried to execute a program I use all the time. The message is hugely aggravating because it says the obvious without giving any actionable information. If you have such a problem and you are executing from a deep directory structure that may be your problem. It was in my case. Looking on the web with that phrase brought up a bunch of arcane stuff that did not apply to me. It mostly brought up long threads (as these things tend to do) which follow this pattern: 'Q' is the guy with the problem asking for help 'A' can be any number of people who jump in to 'help'. Q: I got this error "The system cannot execute the specified program." when I tried to ... [long list of things tried] A: What program were you running, what operating system, where is the program? What type of ...

I had a blog a long time ago and found the thing got so much SPAM it had to be shut down. I am hoping that this will be someone else's problem for a while. Meantime, I can hammer up content here as the spirit moves me. For now, I'm just setting the thing up. It's simple enough for me (thought time consuming). I wonder if other people found it simple, though.