Dual Monitor Set Up, 19 inch CRT versus LCD, Book Cataloging

Dual Monitor Set Up I’ve been wanting to try a dual monitor or multiple monitor set up for myself for quite some time, and finally got the chance to on my home system. All I gotta say is – if you work with graphics, programming, webpages, etc or you’re just…

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Neelix (cat) Fetching, Flash Video Quality Again, and Human (Technological) Evolution and Computers

One of our kittens consistently fetches toys. Geordi (one of our other cats) and Katie (my father’s cat) will do this also, but they get sick of it quickly and they were more into it as kittens. Neelix will do it over and over for long periods, and will even…

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Busy, Finished the Dining Room, Theresa Birdfeeder Webcam, Black Friday, Logitech Orbit Webcam, Voice Thing from Vozme, Firefox 3 Alpha, XNView

Busy It’s been kinda a hectic couple weeks, as mentioned in a previous post. Hell, a hectic month come to think of it. With Xmas coming and I’m getting ready for that, then there was Thanksgiving, Black Friday (we never miss it), and all this month and next customers will…

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Remodeling Delay, Rocketdock, California Wildfires and Natural Barriers, Very Old Coin

Remodeling – Blog Delay Not much in the way of blog entries here for the last while. We’re taking some time to remodel the last full room we are going to do – the dining room. Below are the entries I was working on before I start, the wildfire one…

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Exploring the Old Anthony Farm Near Perch River Dam

Exploring the Old Anthony Farm Near Perch River Dam I’m interested in history and old structures, especially in the North Country. You can find my history page here, my abandoned buildings site here and more related links in the column to the right. One of the things that’s of interest…

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Meeting People in Person, Natural Heritage Area, Backing Up Your Blog, Finger Stick, Camera Attached to Telescope, Dining Room Remodel

Ema Capite Ad Calc Blog Action Day seemed to be quite a success, according to the website over 20,603 blogs participated. Not bad. There was a good amount of press coverage too, which helped. A good blog I found on the Blog Action Site that might be of interest along…

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Alternate Energy, Global Warming, Blog Action Day

Alternate Energy, Global Warming, Blog Action Day I don’t understand it. So much emphasis and controversy is being put on why Global Warming is occurring and whether to blame humankind or a natural phase that the Earth goes through (though fortunately the focus has shifted from whether it’s happening) instead…

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Book Writing, New Trail & Bad Rules, Totman Gulf, Apple Picking & Applesauce Making, Tree Planting & Blog Action Day, Box Embeds & Canon Pics

Book Writing Possibility Interesting. The editor of New York titles for Arcadia Publishing, a well-known publisher of local and regional photographic histories, contacted me and asked to talk to me about the possibility of my doing a book on historic Watertown. I assume she ran across me via my Jefferson…

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Death Threats, The Gran Paradiso Firefox and Vista and Human Nature, Web 2.0 and My Concession – Rounded Corners

Death Threat Hmmmm, this is a first for me. Yea, I’ve had people threaten me before. Both online and off. Yea, maybe some has said they’d kill me once or twice, but that’s just people being dumb and usually isn’t serious. But I’ve never had anyone e-mail me telling me…

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Blogs, Friends, Clayton Car Show, the Environment, Indian River Conservancy trail, more Canon A570 IS, Scribefire Addon for Firefox

Blogs I just can’t see myself blogging and analyzing every strange bowel movement every single day of my life {SARCASM}. I mean – I haven’t actually seen the above chronicled but I’m sure multiple people have done so on numerous occasions. Gawk! I’ve recently been enjoying using Flickr.com (as mentioned…

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