About 2 months ago my primary workstation died. The machine was behaving very flaky, not posting from time to time and requiring my to jumper the Clear-CMOS on a routine basis. After a couple of times doing that it gave up the ghost and refused to post ever again. I’m fixing it, …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Mac Pro in the HouseAt the end of August I picked up a new USB thumb drive that would perform at a pace capable of running applications. I got the OCZ Rally2 2G drive and was very happy with it. One of the only deficiencies of the drive was that there was no way to attach a strap to it, and that …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: USB Drive RoundupTammy has launched her website, Smaller Than a Redwood. You should check it out. Her website is finding it’s groove right now. She’s got some early content on it. She doesn’t intend it to be “diary based” like this site. You won’t see what we did when and where on it, but instead …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Smaller Than a RedwoodAfter wasting a lot of time messing with the routing options on my Zywall 10 I think I finally got the port-forwarding configuration setup right so that the new website is up and running! Yeah! Hint for anyone trying to configure that on the Zywall, go to the manual, and jump to …
Keep reading · 1 minute: New Site Up!So when your wife is upstairs on her computer, and you are downstairs on your computer, how do you communicate? Why not video chat? 🙂
Google released a new version of the Google Reader a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been using it for the last few days. I think that I’ve finally found a web-based RSS reader that I can live with now. I’ve wanted to move my RSS reading to a web reader so that I can access it …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Google ReaderThis site showed up in one of my RSS feeds recently, How Many of Me? It is a fun little site that takes census data to do rankings of people with the same name. For example, did you realize there are 49,535 people with the name John Smith. That is bigger than my home town. You …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: How Many of Me?I am a frequent “CrackBerry” user. That’s the slang term for a BlackBerry for those that are not “in the know”. In recent months though I’ve started to look angrily at my CrackBerry. I’m starting to get pain in my thumbs on a pretty regular basis. Any of you that have seen my …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Sore Thumbs!So you have been following along with update from the Great Adventure but your confused about where all this stuff is? Well, now you can explore the Great Adventure in Google Earth. Make sure you have Google Earth installed and then you can open our Great Adventure map and …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Great Adventure in Google EarthWhile getting the Internet side of life setup while on the Great Adventure I made a trip to Best Buy to get a wireless router. The apartment has broadband (of course), but it terminated to a single ethernet cable and being tethered to a desk with only one laptop simply wasn’t …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Jump into 802.11n