I was listening to a Podcast today and it had some ideas that I had partially implemented but they had described better…so…I figured I would finish the job. Basically the deal is that on the Mac under OS X, you can actually run as a standard user with no real issues. In fact, it is [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2006’
School Volunteer Schedule
Looks like my school volunteer schedules are starting to come together. I should get the next piece of it in the next day or so but I know what I’m expecting. It should be a busy year for me. I’ve 2 things that I expect to do with Mitchell’s class and several things with Xander’s [...]
Next OS X Program
I wrote my next OS X program. There are some cool things about the dev environment on a Mac. They have made things pretty easy. I haven’t made it as far as toolbars are interacting with media systems (playing songs and such) but it’s pretty simple to make a program do interesting things right away. [...]
Corporate Bully’s getting their way in Congress
Anyone who reads my blog knows that I bought a Mac almost a year ago and have had a great experience with it. I’m far from a Mac zealot but I do think that Apple has done a lot of smart things. On the other hand, they are doing some really bad things. One could [...]
I was Kathy’s IT professional
It was kind of a funny time, though expensive over the weekend. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Kathy’s hard drive died. I think some bearings went out and the data became unreliable and it certainly wouldn’t boot. Well, I became Kathy’s IT professional. It was our running gag for the weekend. Of course [...]
Book Review: A Bite To Remember by Linsay Sands
This is a book that is part of an ongoing series that Linsay Sands has written. I have reviewed some of the earier books. The premise is that there are some folks in the world who are “infected” with nano’s that were created by the mythic civilization of Atlantis in order to improve health, life [...]
Kathy’s Disk Died
Kathy’s hard drive died so we had to run out and get a new one. Also while we were at it, we upped the size and made sure that we had an adequate backup solution. I’ve got it installed and now it’s a matter of installing software. She wants to do a clean install (which [...]
Internet Speeds
We had an alignment of issues over the last little while. First, we noticed that multiple sites were being slow. Unfortunately, it wasn’t consistent. It took me a while be we finally got to the cable modem. Most homes in our area get the cable modem reset fairly often because of various power outages (they [...]
I wrote my first OS X program!
It’s a small thing but I’ve decided to learn what I can about programming on the Mac. Maybe I’ll recode my MP3 tool program (eventually…) but right now it’s about learning. I bought a few books and since I know something about various versions of C, C++, C# (by no means am I an expert), [...]
Time to winterize
I guess that when the season’s change it’s a time to be emotional. In the Pacific Northwest, the Fall/Winter season begins our gray and wet period. Occasionally where we live, we will get a bit of snow but for the most part Winter and Fall are much the same. The Spring is warmer and sunnier [...]
What’s the deal?
I’m not sure when it happened but somehow, I can’t get my WordPress installation to send email right now. I’ve spent the better part of today trying to figure it out but to no avail. I’m going to give it some time to percolate to see if I can think of any other ideas. I [...]
Book Review: Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta
This is a new author to me. Marta Acosta is interesting in that much of this book refers to the notion of reading books and book styles throughout the book. I found this interesting because I mention some of the stylings when I talk about the books I read from time to time. Along that [...]
Homework
I’ve had some interesting discussions with some other parents this past week. One of them was regarding homework which made me remember a brief bit on a podcast that I had heard. The podcast was an interview with a professor who had done some research into the impact of homework on children. Some of his [...]
A little trial and tribulation
Today was a day that gave the first serious vibes of fall and even winter. We had rain and cooler weather this morning. For us, since school has started, it meant getting out the jackets and umbrellas. Mitchell generally goes with the flow when we change seasons and the clothing that goes with it but [...]
Electric Guitar Update
I’ve had my new electric guitar for almost a week. My observations may be obvious to folks who’ve played guitars for a long time but I’ll make them anyway. First, this guitar is just so easy to play. My acoustic guitar is such a pleasure to play compared to other acoustic guitars but this electric [...]