I have been “working” on my personal portal for weeks now. Mostly that “work” has been staring at it and wondering what it is supposed to be. I have made no progress building the thing from scratch, just seems to be too abstract to tackle that way. The technical aspects of everything I want to […]
How many years have I written this post? Anyway, Happy St. Valentine’s Day to the special boy in my life 🙂 And to the rest of, may you find true love on this very commercial of holidays.
I don’t have a lot of use for spreadsheets anymore. Most things I do I keep in a MySQL database and have accessible from GITI or some other insane little utility, but for some reason I am maintaining my transfer equivalency matrix in a standard Excel spreadsheet (where maintaining is updating when I remember). So […]
If I were to complete my deck of Associate degrees with the full assortment I would have to meet the following requirements: Associate of Fine Arts in Visual Art 2D Design (ART 121) 3D Design (ART 122) Three studios from Photo 1 (261), Computer Art 1 (171), Painting (240), Jewelry (247), Print Making (231) or […]
Just when I thought my father could not find any more ways to annoy me with technology questions, here comes the newest inquiry, regarding a GPS. Apparently my mother has to go to Charleston, SC for 3 days to work next week and her boss is willing to pay for the Saturday as well, so […]
To be my friend apparently requires a very specialized set of skills and abilities, so much so that only three people in my life fall in to the category of “friend”. Chris, Oscar, Matt; the three of you have consistently shown patience to my moods and have always returned when I have tried to run […]
48 hours later, it finally took.
Windows XP SP3 Base Install Install forgotten network card driver Join domain Install Dell QuickSet Install FireFox Del.icio.us Plugin Download Helper Flash Install Thunderbird Accounts (about 7 of them) Install Office 2003 (not using 2007 on laptop yet) Install Office Service Pack 3 Install Office 2007 converter pack Install Winamp Install Windows themes Install Adobe […]
I just finished creating a slipstream (with unattend) Windows XP with SP3 CD. If it works it will be pretty cool. Ubuntu was slowly driving me bonkers and I sort of missed Windows XP, but knew my XP install on the other partition was aging quite a bit, and I really did not want to […]
VoIP used to boast its clarity and noise-free signals. Now, there is a new feature for some VoIP systems (such as Microsoft Response Point) to promote, Comfort Noise. I found this particular quirk when looking at some D-Link VoIP network products and noticed it was listed as a feature. At some point when cell phone […]