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Posted in Family on Jun 28th, 2007
Just finished our second day down at Universal in Orlando, Fl. Kids are holding up really, really well. Almost too well! They’re not tiring out before us. Yesterday we opened Universal Studios and closed it - 9am-9pm. Today we did Islands of Adventure. We only missed a couple things yesterday - [...]
I never saw this one coming. I woke up on Father’s Day to heart shaped pancakes with sliced bananas and strawberries, syrup, and a glass of milk - all in bed. Does it get much better than that? Then we went to church, lunch, hung out with some friends, miniature golf, dinner, and then drove [...]
Infoworld wins. I have read Infoworld for what seems like forever. They were one of the first RSS feeds I subscribed to that embedded advertisements in the feed, which someone probably got promoted for, but it drove me crazy. Always really disliked that. Ranks right up there with only providing just a few lines of [...]
Posted in Apple on Jun 11th, 2007
I still find web sites that are not 100% compatible with Safari - this blog’s editor being one of them. I find that Firefox gives me the most chance for success while browsing the Internet, with Camino coming in a close second. Don’t get me wrong, Safari is a nice browser and I test the [...]
Posted in Health on Jun 5th, 2007
Daycare. Pre-School. Elementary School. All of them are just giant petri dishes of sickness. Colds, chicken pox, strep throat, etc. I don’t know about your kids, but mine really dislike getting a throat culture done to test for Strep, plus it takes too long for the result. I know they now have a rapid test, [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 1st, 2007
It was 3 months ago that I switched from Comcast high speed Internet to Verizon Fios. Comcast wasn’t terrible, but I wanted more upstream bandwidth than the tiny 384k they provided standard. I switched to the Verizon Fios 15/2 package, which gives me 15Mb downstream and 2Mb upstream. I knew going in that 2Mb upstream [...]