We took a trip down to Mountaineer to do a little gambling. Today was a bad, bad gambling experience for me. Usually I don’t blow through the money so fast, but today was not one of my best in front of the slot machines.
After a couple hours I had gone through my money [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2005
Final blog update using iBlog
Posted in Apple on Jul 29th, 2005
I’ve moved the site to the root of my server. You can access it from www.blindsquirrel.org or if you are using a newsreader you can grab my new feed here.Update those bookmarks and feeds and I’ll see you over at the new site. This one will be kept around as an archive, but no [...]
A few things you can do before you put that Windows PC on the Internet
Posted in Microsoft, Technology on Jul 25th, 2005
As more and more people are adding high speed Internet to their computers, there are some pretty serious risks that you may not be aware of. I’ve read that a brand new computer running Windows can be compromised in 12 minutes when plugged in to their DSL or Cable Internet connection. I’m not here to [...]
I had some problems with Val’s laptop when I took it from Suse Linux to WindowsXP. She actually seemed to be happier using it when I had Suse on it instead of Windows. So I downloaded Suse 9.3 and started working towards getting her away from Windows once again.
During this process I got [...]
More changes to the site
Posted in Personal on Jul 23rd, 2005
I decided that I didn’t like the options I had with iBlog any longer and wanted to move to something web based. I decided to move over to Blogger. I never knew you could use it and publish to your own servers. If I would have known that I would have moved [...]
When we go to Erie, we always make it a point to eat at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants. We’ve done this for a long, long time. I had become great friends with a little dish they like to call Burrito Deluxe. Delicious. Simple. Safe. Or so I thought.
Last Saturday we made one of [...]
A couple more quick tech updates…
Posted in Technology on Jul 13th, 2005
The cable modem is really working out. Downloads are so much faster than they were with my sDSL. However, I have heard that Verizon will be offering their FIOS service in my area some time in September. Fiber to the home! Phenomenal speeds at very good prices. I may have to [...]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes…
Posted in Technology on Jul 9th, 2005
A few days of changes as far as technology goes.
I was a DirecTV customer for 9 years. My moving to satellite was more of a statement against cable at the time. The satellite picture was amazing compared to cable. The pricing was better. Customer service was excellent. But [...]
Hang tight while I move everything to an external host
Posted in Personal on Jul 7th, 2005
Things are going to be broken for a little while. I never expected to deal with case sensitivity when I moved to an external host so this will take me some time to repair.
UPDATE: Everything appears to be fine. So what’s going on, right? Well, I decided to make a huge technical change at home [...]