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Wednesday 8 April

    Hooray! (02:44) - I found the problem! It tuned out to be our firewall. I disconnected each of the devices in turn and connected directly to the modem and then the router and then hooked the firewall back up. It started to happen... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 7 April

    What's going on! (15:48) - I was making a post on Saturday, the pictures of the beautiful flowers. After that I haven't been able to log into my control panel. I'm at the library now and able to get in to post so I know... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 23 November

Monday 13 October

    Update on Computer Crashes Suck! (20:03) - I bought a PCI SATA Controller card so that I could hook my hard drives back up and it came via FedEx on Friday. Now everything is back together and I am still in the process of reloading all my... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 9 October

    Computer crashes SUCK! (17:34) - Last week while I was fiddle-ling around with my computer (something told me not to) I broke the motherboard connector for the SATA controller where the  hard drives get connected. It wouldn't just happen to something cheap or easy to... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Saturday 19 April

    BREAKING NEWS! (05:34) - You've seen it! Now spread the word! Let's save those helpless bloggers!... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Saturday 5 April

Tuesday 12 February

    It's BaaaaacK! (21:23) - Yeaaaaaa! My Photo Gallery is up and running again! I'm not sure what exactly happened, but a few months ago my domain host (One World Hosting) moved their servers to a better facility, since then my photo gallery has been... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 5 January

    Circuit City, Their extended warranties SUCK! (20:27) - A year ago Cassie and I bought an Acer computer at Circuit City in Moorestown, NJ. It was going to be used by our school age children. After two months it just up and stopped working.  Cassie said, fortunately we... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 19 June

    Robosapien V2 (13:41) - Guess what I got from Billy, Heidi and Kristin for Father's Day? Can't guess? A Robosapian! Wowwee Kazowie!  ... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 5 March

    More credit card madness (22:57) - From Boing Boing Sunday, March 5, 2006 Citibank under fraud attack, customers locked out of accounts BoingBoing pal and Citibank customer Jake Appelbaum tried to withdraw some cash with his ATM card on Saturday night. He initiated his bank account... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    Another Update on Credit Card Theft (11:46) - This hits very close to home! Bank of America is the chain bank that automatically freezes accounts when suspicious activity is detected. (My bank) Cyber theft By DAVID LEVINSKY AND JASON HARRIS Burlington County Times Kathy Chester has never visited... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 21 February

    How my Canon digital camera was born! (08:30) - I found this cool article about the invention of the CCD (Charge coupled Device) that makes possible the "magic" of the digital camera. 1-Hour Brainstorm Gave Birth to Digital Imaging (Newsbytes Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Even today, Willard S. Boyle can... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 16 February

    Upgrades (14:48) - Cassie's PC has been running slow lately so after some diagnostics I determined that her swap file was too small. She had filled her 20 gigabyte hard drive up to the max. Yesterday we took a trip to my favorite... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 23 January

    Update to MT acting weird (14:52) - I fixed it! Sometimes you just gotta get away from the infernal machine for a while to figure things out. When I upgraded to MT 3.2, MT created backups of my indexes and loaded the default indexes. Which totally screwed... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    MT acting weird (14:22) - The other day I posted an entry (Bible quotes) and the post didn't show up in my blog. So I then posted 2 tests and they didn't show up either. I did some messing around with the templates and plugins... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 16 January

    Upgraded at last (04:52) - At last I've upgraded to latest and greatest Movable Type. Well, that is Lisa did it for me. I have been wanting to do this ever since MT 3.0 came out. Now I'll hopefully have a better handle on controlling... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 24 September

    I'm up and running again! (15:57) - Wow what a week. I've been working a bunch of overtime and when I get home I just want to crash. That's just what happened Thursday night after I got home! One of the guys at work needed to have...

Saturday 4 June

    STARWARS GEEKDOM! (10:32) - I thought I was a die hard Starwars geek until I saw this. I am not a case modder by any stretch of the imagination, but I love to admire the creativity and skills of these people. I'm going to... | 3 Comments

Friday 27 May

    The geek's geek! (22:52) - My sweetheart's power supply fan seized up this week. Cassie told me there was a funny smell and noise coming out of her computer and asked if I would check it out for her. Funny smell? I thought I'd better...

Friday 4 February

    Ecto 1.5 Beta test (16:26) - I just installed the latest version of Ecto, 1.5 Beta for Windows. The interface is more like MS Outlook. There are a few things I like about this so far and one thing I don't like. The category window should...

Wednesday 19 January

    Phishing (14:48) - This morning's email brought quite a surprise! It was supposedly an email asking me to confirm my account with Washington Mutual. If I was ignorant of the many tricks used to get consumers credit card numbers and other personal information,...

Saturday 11 September

    Trying a new post and publish editor (14:40) - Ecto recommended by Boing-Boing A Directory Of Wonderful Things. I have tried Zempt, (freeware) which is an excellent software written by Bill Zeller & Adam Kalsey for publishing to your blog. I find that it doesn't support multiple posting to...

Sunday 5 September

    My Fantasy Computer (15:25) - I was surfing and saw the add for this "Desktop Super Computer!" I just had to see what it would cost with all the best gizmos and doo-dads. Click on the link at the bottom to see how much my...