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Month: May 2006

In Lieu of a Real Post…

… I shall list the things that I would actually put into a real post if I had the time: I would post about the incredibly fun time my little brood and I had down South-Easterly-like in our previous home-town of Harrisburg, PA, visiting the best of friends. I might mention the adverse effects that driving for 7 contiguous hours will have on your posterior region. I would upload some pictures to my flickr account, showing some of the fun, frivolity, and freakishness from previous weekend, including: a thorough smashing of one candy-stuffed Dora The Explorer pinata, culminating in my delicate, beautiful eldest daughter, smashing the utter bejeebers out of said beloved cartoon character, in full witness of several of Read more…


iPod Nano iSkin, M:I:III

iPod Nano Skin, M:I:III, originally uploaded by vanRijn. So, me needed to get me some armor for me iPod nano, matey, since me had one of the little buggers up and get a cracked screen on me in recent days bygone. And me started looking at me options. And me found the iPod Nano iSkins. And me thought they looked all slickey like. And then me saw the special edition, Mission: Impossible III iSkin. And me ordered it. And me got it today. And me am not so sure me likes it. For starters, the new clothing makes me nano a trifle bit hard to use. Uncovering the bottom hole covers which cover the headphone jack and the cradle/cable port Read more…


In The Last 48 Hours

I have had the pleasure(?) of living through the following: Getting two problems (ABS light and Airbag light were both stuck on) with our new-to-us 2005 Town & Country fixed only to find another problem (2 radiator fans refused to turn off when car was turned off). Had to disconnect battery overnight to turn off fans and prevent battery drainage. Took said vehicle back into the dealer who promptly and courteously fixed it. Again. Finding out that the family dog (who just yesterday started limping–refusing to set any weight on her left, front paw) has Lyme disease. $200+ later and doggie is now feeling much better, apparently. Beating head repeatedly against same problem at work for a week now is Read more…


Daddy, Where Is The Other Internet Stick?

So, I was at work today when my beautiful eldest daughter called me and asked me if I knew where the “other Internet stick” was.  I had to think about that one for a second. Turns out, I have our computers using wireless USB network cards.  The other night, I had taken one of the wireless USB network cards out of the computer downstairs and left it upstairs.  Ah-HAH!  That’s what she was looking for!  The Internet Stick (TM) that I had taken out of the computer and left on my desk.  =:) *teehee* I love my kids!!!  =:)


This Just In: Apple Is Better Than Microsoft

Well, I had to make up for my blah-stricken previous post full of my woes and travails. So, anyway, I once had a nifty little iPod nano. I loved her like a cat and gave her a name and talked in soothing tones to her. Oh, little Beethovina and me were inseparable, yes we were. *sniffle* And then one fine day, Beethovina got a crack in her display. I cannot tell you how distraught I was. Ohhhh, I was nigh unconsolable.  Not to mention the fact that a 2-gig iPod shuffle sucks mightily, especially when what you really want is to be able to see the thingeys that you can’t see on the display. *sniffle* But I must tell you, Read more…


LDAP, Microsoft Exchange, and KAddressBook or Thunderbird

My current employer uses Exhange 2003 as its current groupware solution. I have on-and-off-again been beating my head against the proverbial concrete wall in trying to get it to work nicely with LDAP and addressbooks other than Evolution or Outlook, for obvious reasons. Today, my geeky noggin’ has broken through the proverbial concrete wall and I now have both KDE’s kaddressbook and Thunderbird’s address book successfully using the Exchange server here at work. Yay, me! Two things I’ve found this morning that have helped my noggin’ and I’ll list them here for future reference for myself as well as in hopes of helping some other poor concrete/geek/proverbial/noggin’-banging soul. First, I’ve found this post which lists a very helpful step-by-step approach Read more…