Archive for June, 2005
- Quiet - June 29th, 2005
- Sold Out? - June 27th, 2005
- Up, Up and Away! - June 19th, 2005
- It’s Official! - June 18th, 2005
- 15 Hours, 7 Minutes … - June 17th, 2005
- Post Secret - June 17th, 2005
- Refocusing - Phase I - June 17th, 2005
- Today Has Been Brought to You by the Letter Y - June 15th, 2005
- DSL is Here … Early - June 15th, 2005
- Bloggers’ Writes - June 13th, 2005
- The Day Draws Near … - June 13th, 2005
- Battlestar Friday - June 10th, 2005
- DSL Arrives … sorta - June 9th, 2005
- Rasterbation Revisited - June 7th, 2005
- Apple and Intel — But wait, there’s more… - June 6th, 2005
- Apple to Use Intel Chips? - June 6th, 2005
- Need a Really Big Print? - June 5th, 2005
- What about “Referers?” - June 4th, 2005
- Cooking by Freezing? - June 3rd, 2005
- Contracts, Contracts, Contracts! - June 2nd, 2005
- Managing Your E-mail - June 2nd, 2005
- ALPS Printer Supplies - June 1st, 2005
- Old Billboards Never Die - June 1st, 2005
- ZoomQuilt - June 1st, 2005
- Interesting Statistic - June 1st, 2005
Hi, folks. It’s going to be pretty quiet here while we (mostly I) get caught up. Here’s a very short update:
We had a great time on the honeymoon. Pictures will follow. Soon. We promise.
I’m working double at the TV station this week, and probably (hopefully) into next, as some of the production people are on [...]
“Oh, goodness!” you’re thinking! Geren’s sold out! There are advertisements on this site now! Well, yes there are. It’s more of an experiment than anything else, and, if I do make a few pennies from it, well, that’s good, too.
One of the reasons for adding the adverts is that this site is a test bed [...]
Well, we’re about to be off on the honeymoon — a week in Nova Scotia. Woohoo!
This week will be a very special one, as, in addition to being away together to play, and to discover a place that neither of us have ever seen, we can sit down, away from all of the daily distractions [...]
Well, folks, it’s official. We’re married!
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Thanks to all who came. We had a great time! And, I’ve made an honest woman out of Donna! Yay!
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It’s 15 hours and 7 minutes until The Moment. It’s going to be an interesting and different day. There’s still a small load of stuff to do — including painting a door we forgot!
And, after all the festivities of our day, we’ll be going to … a funeral. Yes, that’s right. My aunt passed [...]
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Post Secret is an interesting place on the web. Write your darkest secret on a postcard, and mail it in. Hmm…
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As I mentioned a couple of days back, I’ve found a need to re-focus my life. And, I found that I was simply trying to do too much. As a first step in getting life back under control, I’ve stepped down as keyboard player in LaRocca. I will remain a member of the group, but [...]
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Tonight brings another meeting of the CMPG, and tonight we’ll be talking about the images from our latest photo assignment - Alphabet. This is my offering. I happened across this tree along the side of US Rte 50, while we were on the way to visit my parents a few weeks back.
I about scared the [...]
DSL has arrived here, several hours earlier than expected. Verizon had our “on” time scheduled for 6PM today, but, as of 8AM today, a recorded message from none other than James Earl Jones proclaimed that our DSL service was ready. By 9:30AM, I had my WindowsXP box and my Mac-running-Linux on line.
Installation went without a [...]
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has put together an excellent legal guide for Bloggers:
Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post.
Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don’t [...]
As the Big Day draws nearer, blogging is growing light. There are a few things I want to touch on now, in case I don’t get much of a chance over the next few days.
Life out of Focus
Donna and I have been growing frustrated with a lot of things recently, and we couldn’t put our [...]
Well, yes, I know that’s one of Will’s titles. But, last night, I finally got a viewable version of the pilot miniseries. We sat down, just planning to rest for a couple of minutes and check to make sure that my crappy DVD player would play the silly thing back. An hour later…
I missed the [...]
As I mentioned the other day, we decided that we could be reasonably happy with DSL in place of Comcast’s broadband internet. Everyone I know who has it is very pleased with the service, and my own experience at my parents’ home was positive. It was just a matter of timing, and deciding which local [...]
In case you were wondering, here’s a rendering of [one of] my rasterbation[s]…
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This one was made to fit on six sheets of standard letter-sized paper — the resulting print is 22 inches tall and 25 1/2 inches wide. The moire pattern in the image shown here is a result of resizing the rasterized image without [...]
Just a couple of links on the Apple/Intel story …
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Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips
Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that it’s scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel’s microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned.
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CNN reported this morning that Apple has inked a deal to use Intel to provide CPU chips, instead of IBM. Now, as far as I know, Intel is not presently licensed to manufacture PowerPC chips (the chips that make a Mac work the way it does). So, what’s the deal?
Well, theoretically speaking, since MacOS X [...]
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The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.
Here’s a gallery of cool Rasterbated images and their application. Some of the ones that are “wrapped” around a corner are the [...]
Until today, I didn’t get this whole “referers” thing when it comes to site statistics. I was especially perplexed as to why the majority of my “referrer list” is made up of porn sites and online casinos. Why, I wondered, would they be having a link to my measely little site?
Of course, they don’t, per [...]
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This just might be the ultimate in freezer-burn technology:
Crygenic Cable Cookers
So, just what the heck is a cryogenic cable cooker, anyway?
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I had a happy phone call today. For several years, I’ve been involved in the Howard County Cable Advisory Committee as meeting recordist, and confidant to the Cable Administrator. However, last December, she resigned, and there hasn’t been a new Administrator until just yesterday. This morning, the new Administrator called to ask if I would [...]
Alex King suggests that you should have three e-mail accounts, possibly four. His logic is pretty sound, and frankly, what he says is common sense.
Without stealing Alex’s thunder, here’s the short form:
Personal Account
This is the account to share with your friends and family.
Business Account
This is the account for all your professional communication
Throw-away Account
Use this one [...]
Anyone know of a reliable source for ribbons for an ALPS MD-1000 printer? I’m specifically in need of the gold and silver metalic ribbons, but, I’m probably going to need white pretty soon, too.
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Just what everyone needs in their living room — old billboards!
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This is just too cool. Clickie on the picture to play…
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I mentioned the other day that I had installed a back-end stats package to see what’s going on here. I was looking at the panel this morning, and found that 34% of the hits to this site are from Firefox/Mozilla users, as opposed to only 24% for IE users. This is the first time I’ve [...]
