08:13 – Here’s irony. I’ve been desperately hoping for an alternative to Time-Warner Cable ever since we’ve lived in this house. Yesterday, we got mail from AT&T announcing that their fiber Internet service is now available in our neighborhood, just as we’re preparing to move up to the North Carolina mountains. Ten years ago, five, even one year ago, I would have been first in line to sign up for the A&T fiber Internet service. Now it’s too late. Fortunately, the West Jefferson area already has fiber Internet service.
Barbara labeled several hundred bottles yesterday, in batches of 120 each, and will label several hundred more today. I’ll end up with something between 1,500 and 2,000 labeled bottles that I can fill this week. I’ll order another few cases of bottles today or tomorrow so she’ll have more to label this coming weekend. That’ll give us a good start on what we need to build kits for the summer/autumn rush.
Speaking of new services available in Winston-Salem, I just placed an order with Amazon on Friday and a message popped up to tell me that Winston-Salem is now one of the cities for which Amazon offers year-round Sunday delivery via US Postal Service. I’ll have to talk to the mailman and find out if that means we’ll also be getting Sunday pickup for kit shipments.
09:42 – When I converted to Linux more than a decade ago, I used a WYSIWYG HTML editor called N|Vu, which was a Linspire fork of Mozilla Composer. When N|Vu was orphaned, a community fork called KompoZer replaced it. Unfortunately, that project never really got off the ground, and it was last updated more than five years ago. The last version doesn’t work with “recent” Linux versions, which is to say any that use GTK ≥ 2.14.
So I went off looking for a WYSIWYG editor for Linux, but the cupboard appears to be bare. So I downloaded the last version of KompoZer, but in the Windows version. I hope it works there, or my only choice will be to bring up an e-commerce site, which I eventually intend to do anyway, but just not right now.