So I’m half asleep – right now – and I had this thought… If reincarnation is real, why are virtually all reincarnated people former civil war soldiers, artists, or royalty? Indian chiefs seem to get reincarnated with regularity, too, but those guys fit pretty squarely into the royalty category. I’ve never heard one person who claimed to be reincarnated say that were – heck, I dunno – a certified public accountant from Scottsdale, or, a plumber from Toledo in a past life. They were never bartenders, nor, shoe salesman. I did some research on the web and, as far as I can tell, there’s never been one, single X-ray technician who’s been reincarnated; I was getting really tired but a less thorough check of the web seemed to suggest that, likewise, no locker room attendants have ever been reincarnated. And then I had this thought: if a real civil war soldier thought he’d been reincarnated wouldn’t that just be a really serious case of deja vu? Wow – I just realized….I could swear I’ve written all if this before – but I was an Indian chief. I need a nap.

This has something to do with XP trying to generate a preview, typically when an AVI file is very large. Anyway, if XP keeps locking up when you open a folder containing a large .avi file, do the following from a command prompt:

regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

Be aware that – as stated – this will disable the previewing of various files (not a big deal to ‘ol Guy).

One thing about WordPress: since it’s gaining in popularity there’s an extraordinary number of plugins for the darned thing.. There are tons of lists, on the web, of “great WordPress plugins”, or, “must have WordPress plugins”. While it’s all helpful every list is incomplete, in one way or another. There are just too damned many great WordPress plugins. I’m sure there are lots of them which I’d like, but, which are not listed in this post. By the way, I run both Unix and Windows servers and while most of the plugins listed on this page are cross-platform, some of these work on Apache (Unix/Linux) and not on IIS (Windows). Generally speaking the audio players are the pickiest (and the contact forms). Eventually I will add descriptions, caveats, etc. And by the way, while some are archived here for download newer versions may be available.

Security & SEO
Quiz 1.2
Math-Comment-Spam-Protection 3.0
WWP Anti Spam 1.2.2
Meta SEO Pack 2.2.1
Track That Stat 1.0.9

Multi Media
Audio Player 2.0.4
Flowplayer
Hana FLV Player
Kimili Flash Embed 2.2
WP-OS-FLV-1.1.3

Contact Forms & Email related
Cimy Swift SMTP configuration tool
Simple Contact Form (with CAPTCHA)
Contact Form 7

Social Networking/Share Plugins
Add to Any
Share This
Async Social Sharing
Slick Social Share Buttons