New Monitor, Simple Solutions when Troubleshooting DVD Players and Other Complex Systems, Hiding Your E-mail Address On Your Website, Interesting Website Usage Stats

Argh, been remiss here in posting, way too busy. Hmmm, I feel that I’ve said this before…   New Monitor   I just acquired a new 22 inch LCD widescreen monitor (the one on the right in the pic above). Very nice unit, large and bright.   But I wasn’t…

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Chris Pirillo’s Geeks! Site, Ning.com, The Obama Projector, Major Worm Patch, Forcing Drivers in XP

Chris Pirillo’s Geeks! Site, Ning.com If you have anything to do with computers you probably at least know of Chris Pirillo.  He’s run a technical mailing list and site for many years now. If you’re a geek or would like to be one and want to share info on a…

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Global Handwashing Day, Clipart Sites, Obama/McCain, Tweaks for Vista

  As you may or may not have noticed my blog entries are getting further and further apart.  Sorry.   I find myself busier and busier but having less time, it seems without really gaining on much of anything.  Isn’t that the way it is with everyone? 😉   Global…

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Watertown Dog Park, Firefox Memory Leaks, Google Chrome, Vista & HP

Congratulations to my niece and her husband for their new baby boy (and sympathy for the long hours of labor), named after my Dad.       Watertown Dog Park A good example of why Jefferson County stays the same.  Some of the people of Watertown and Jefferson County were almost…

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New Computer

New Computer I haven’t actually bought a new, non-laptop computer in many years.   I usually make my computers out of a combination of parts I have, parts from current computers, and new parts. But this time I wanted to just go out and buy one; a damn good one, and…

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My Dad’s 90th Birthday, Faststone Maxview, More Stabs at HDR Creation, Fred Langa’s Journey

My Dad’s 90th Birthday I was a late child – an ‘accident’ as my wife likes to tease me about. While growing up, most of my friends and peers had parents the age that my sister and brother were, with grandparents the age my parents were.   It usually didn’t…

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Free Maps of the Whole US for your Garmin, Customized Engraving Company – Warning Blatant Advertisement

Free Maps of the Whole US for your Garmin   If you buy a Garmin eTrex GPS you know that the basemap for roads is, er, a bit questionable in the amount of data department.  Of course – you’re not buying the thing for the roadmaps; are you?   Well,…

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Power Crisis, Wind Power, Updated Garmin Maps, Fort Drum Air Show

Power Crisis, Wind Power Interesting.  For quite sometime I’ve been saying that we’re all dumb. Everyone in the US should have learned from the oil problems of the 70’s (whether we were alive during this time or not), and we should have seen this coming.  We should have been pushing…

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New Editor/Dashboard Look in Blogger, Google Maps with GPS, Flash Earth, Drop.io, Jott.com Now Has RSS Feeds, No WAAS on New iPhone 3G?, Converting Raster to Vector

              (The is blog entry below is no longer relevant)   New Editor/Dashboard Look in Blogger I like it; it’s bigger, brighter, and more “Web 2.0” (despite my somewhat-dislike for this misnomer that has become such an established “format”).  Or maybe this is just a…

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Internet Rumors, Upper NY Modified Garmin Maps, Scheduled Blog Entries, Mobiola Web Camera 3 – Use Your Cameraphone as a Webcam

Internet Rumors Ever play that game in elementary school where the teacher tells one kid something and that kid tells someone else, and it goes around the room until each student has told someone else? It’s an exercise to show how rumors and fact can be readily distorted, at least…

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