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Posted in Personal on Aug 28th, 2005
I suck. I mean really, really suck. Like “Ray Charles could beat my ass in golf” suck. Yet like an addict looking for his next fix I find I can’t wait to go again. Today I thought I would work out some of the many issues I have with my short game and went out [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Personal on Aug 21st, 2005
Last night a bunch of us went out to dinner down at Station Square and then caught a few comedians at the Funny Bone. Dinner wasn’t that good but the comedians made up for it.
When you leave the Funny Bone they redirect you out through another bar area called the Green Room where they [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 15th, 2005
I ended up making 6 support calls for this problem and went to a local Comcast office to get a new cable modem. When I brought it home it still didn’t work correctly. I called back in to Comcast in case they had to do anything for it to start working and it suddenly started [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 14th, 2005
Just hung up from my 4th call with Comcast cable modem tech support. They are going to dispatch someone to my house. The earliest they can get here is Friday - 6 days from now. Now that is customer service. If they actually fix the problem when they come out I will [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 13th, 2005
Since signing up for Comcast Cable and High Speed Internet(HSI) 5 weeks ago thing have not gone as well as I had hoped. Don’t get me wrong, when things are working, Comcast HSI is fast. Very fast. But last night around 8pm things got very, very slow and then we had no Internet connectivity at [...]
My youngest daughter has never had an easy time with brushing her teeth and flossing. She has a terrible gag reflex and will do just about anything she can to get out of brushing well. She tries hard though.
Tonight she was brushing her teeth and flossing for a long time when she finally [...]
Posted in Apple, Personal, Technology on Aug 7th, 2005
Tonight I finally got around to shutting down my completely open wireless network that used all Cisco access points. I have now completed my transition away from hosting, DSL, Cisco access points, 802.11b, and the OpenBSD firewall over to an external host, Cable modem, Apple Airport Extreme and Airport Express base stations with AirTunes, [...]
Posted in Personal on Aug 6th, 2005
Tonight we went beyond all reason and purchased a Dyson vacuum cleaner. The DC14 to be exact. My wife had mentioned one before and I did some research and it was rated very highly, but I backed off when I saw the price. Over the last 3 years we’ve gone through 3 cheaper vacuum cleaners [...]
Posted in Apple, Technology on Aug 2nd, 2005
Some times I wonder if Apple does things just to tick off 3rd party developers.
Today Apple finally released a mouse with more than 1 button. They named it Mighty Mouse.
Or was that Unsanity, a 3rd party Apple developer, that already had something called Mighty Mouse?
Doesn’t really matter since this will always be my favorite [...]
Posted in Apple on Aug 1st, 2005
Apple recently announced upgrades to their iBook and Mac Mini lines. Many of you know that I am a big fan of Apple’s OS X operating system and I love my PowerBook. But while these latest upgrades give a slight speed bump and include some things that were previously available as build to order items [...]