We ordered cheese sticks
Vegas in July, sounds like a great idea, right? 109 degrees in the shade... tourists in wife-beaters... wondering if the misters use "reclaimed" water. Scary as it sounds we had a fab-tastic…
You see Theo…
In the 70’s I used to listen to my dad’s Bill Cosby albums, in the 80’s I used to watch the Cosby show and in the 90’s I cringed when Bill Cosby…
Tipsy dog, one month on
It's been about a month since Nala's second episode of vestibulitis and she is as happy as ever. She isn't, honestly, back to 100% though... she's not even back to 100% of where she…
Tell Ron I’m sorry
Paula has been doing a fantastic job of getting healthy. She's been exercising regularly, she's been cooking healthy and, thankfully, she's been encouraging me to eat well and exercise with her. Yesterday…
Relapse
Just about a year after her first attack of vestibulitis Nala has had another attack. Paula was at home this time when it happened and it was nowhere near as bad as…
Migration
Well, it's been a long time (10 years) with Network Solutions but I've finally gotten off my lazy butt and moved my domains over to GoDaddy. The primary reason was to get…
Raw diet
The various competing digital RAW formats have been a boon to professional and pro-sumer photographers but to date the support for them has been limited to the manufacturer's software and expensive photo…
Fix your Windows Media album info
Omar turned me onto this fantastic tool for quickly and easily fixing the album data in Windows Media. Album Art Fixer may follow Microsoft's not-so-sexy, name-it-what-it-is product title strategy but make no mistake,…
Gah, I missed my free music!
I was organizing my music last night (after ripping another 110 albums this weekend) and was reminded of the free music from Mercedes. On a whim I went back to the Mercedes…
So… does that make it a fruit or a vegetable?
I say Ketchup, you say Catsup, let's call the whole thing off. But wait... something new on the horizon? Here's just the thing for people looking for that special condiment to set…
Mechanical procreation
There's cool, and then there's geeky cool. I think this is both. Robots master reproductionAndreas von Bubnoff Modular machine assembles copies of itself in minutes. Humans do it, bacteria do it, even…
Share your web favorites with all your machines
A while back Omar turned me on to FavoriteSync as a great tool to keep your IE favorites in synch across multiple machines. Omar has since moved on to Groove but I…
Useful
Working in the computer industry and living in this strange computer utopia there are a lot of useful sites and software packages that one adopts simply by means of osmosis. In an…
We are experiencing heavier than usual prayer volume…
So, according to the bible, God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh. This is, quite simply, the reason there is a weekend. Now, let's say I'm looking…
Sure, it’s from the Virgin Islands, but c’mon…
...does "Virgin Water" really sound appealing? Perhaps it just needs a catchy slogan: Virgin H20: Fresh squeezed from the world's finest virgins. Virgin H20: Like holy water, only better. Virgin H20: Now in plastic containers...…
Hey, I needed that!
There are times when you need to get a file out of your Hotmail account but the server has flagged the file as dangerous and won’t let you at it. This can…