Adventures in Car Rental: 2007 Volvo S40

Renting cars is always a bit of a chancey proposition, because you never know what you’re going to get. Take my previous article about the Ford Expedition, for instance — you just show up at the agency, they give you the keys, and it’s a bit of a surprise every time. Sometimes you end up being stuck driving a horrible piece of dreck, and sometimes you get lucky and drive off in something that ends up being at the top of your list of cars you’d like to buy. And that’s what happened when I drove off the lot in a Volvo S40.

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Typo3 — possible to get started?!?

I’ve been checking out Typo3 with an eye on moving this blog (and others) to it, for a number of reasons, but I have to say that it’s quite frustrating to try and learn about it. If you install the software according to the instructions you end up with an error page when you try and access the site (No pages are found on the rootlevel!), but all “getting started” documentation requires the use of a ‘quickstart’ site which does not work with version 4.0 (the only version you can download from typo3.org). You get the impression, rightly or wrongly, that the project’s a bit disorganized…