A friend I was supposed to see this weekend just cancelled. I hadn’t heard from her and that naturally led me to anticipate some complication. I hate being right. I mean, in “normal times” my friends and I rarely have the time just to visit. Truth be told, it’s usually some conference that brings us …
Last Sunday, at about the same time that I was working on my sister’s computers and watching the Phoenix Mars Lander do it’s thing on nasa.gov, someone who goes by the online handle of “Mrs. Happy Pants” was accepting a marriage proposal marriage via the Internet mini-blog service called Twitter. I heard about this by …
I don’t know what the hell is going on. About two-weeks ago, just after I decided to not tow my cute burnt-copper-colored Scion behind a U-haul and instead drive the beastie all the way to Florida, it developed a difficult to diagnose slow leak in the rear-passenger-side tire. I had a full-load of Snapples and …
“I’m awake for my sol 1 duties. Have received commands from Earth and will spend the day carrying them out,” MarsPhoenix via twitter – 5/26/2008 Sunday was a good day. Even though I had no time to be away from the massive packing job at my apartment, I had arranged with bro-in-law Paul to give …
When I went to visit mom during Spring Break one of the main assignments was to set up her macmini so that I could do remote diagnostics whenever she runs into problems. The Leopard upgrade went great but I think her computer’s 512MB RAM wasn’t enough memory to allow remote access. Damn. So I was …
Thanks to Will Pate for the link to this video Music: World On Fire from the album “Afterglow” by Sarah McLachlan Technorati Tags: love, music, musicvideo, promises, video, youtube
Friends & Family, I’m not really sure where to begin this particular status report, as I sit in my local In-n-Out Burger watching the rain come down outside. First, I want to apologize to those whom I haven’t been able to send a more personal communication with, and that you’re getting this info in another …
Back in December, in an effort to Simplify, I reduced my computer set-up to two computers and created two “new” PCs from the remaining parts, one for Juls and one for my son. Well, “remaining” isn’t quite right, ’cause I still had cases, motherboards and various bits for four PCs and one Mac G4. So …
Music: Love and Leave from the album “Love and Leave” by MiNG Technorati Tags: florida, FullSail, kids, teaching, travel, work
This morning OLPC founder, Nicholas Negroponte, unveiled the XO version 2.0 according to Engadget and LaptopMag and it is all about the touch. With a schedule 2010 release date the OX will be a hinged dual touch-screen device almost half the size and volume as the original OX. Not too surprisingly, pundits* who didn’t “get” …