So one of the things that I’ve been comparing in setting up my Mac Pro is Parallels and Bootcamp. Parallels is a virtual machine environment that allows you to run other operating systems in a virtual way and allowing context switching. It’s available from a company other than Apple. Bootcamp is kind of a multi-boot [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2007’
New Plugin that does thumbnails
The plugin is really simple. It only has a few lines of code and I even understand it. Basically, it let’s me put in a link to a picture and it will allow the link to pop up the actual picture. I can put up the link as a thumbnail or just a text phrase. [...]
I’m sick
I guess you pay a price for being with the kids as much as I am. Speaking of which, I was the Mystery Reader in Xander’s class today. I surprised Xander pretty good. I think the kids all had fun with the story that Kathy helped me pick out. Anyway, being sick means I can’t [...]
Guitar Lesson today
Wow! Something new in my guitar lesson happened today. Usually, Mick, my guitar teacher, and I spend time on other fundamentals. Some of the things we have worked on are pentonic minor scales, picking styles, chord voicings, barre formations and then tying all of that together into a practice regime. Today though, Mick wanted to [...]
Here’s an explanation
The reason for the test post yesterday is that after the upgrade to WordPress 2.1, I was having a problem with any new posts. The posts were only in the database once but they were being displayed twice (for those of you who visited, you probably saw and noticed). Anyway, it turned out a plugin [...]
Test Post
Why are these showing up twice in the blog?
An experiment gone wrong
I had a Maxtor external drive (One touch). It had a 200GB drive in in. The capacity is not very useful to me so I took a 500GB drive which was a Seagate and tried it in the enclosure. It did not work. In fact, the capacity declined even from 200GB down to 12xGB so [...]
Blog software update…big one!
As some of you know, I use WordPress for my blog software. I manage it on a hosted site which means that I have to maintain and updated it as the software gets update. I’m pretty good about that though I did decide to skip the last update because the word was that the next [...]
Church for Children
Tomorrow I am volunteering at Church to lead a children’s liturgy. What that means is that I lead the children in a few prayers and read the gospel (another volunteer reads a reading) and then I do a homily/sermon. Homilies/sermons for kids are much different than for adults. There are lots of questions and answers [...]
Oops! I have a blog to write…
I got a new toy and got to darn occupied to even do anything else (and boy did Kathy let me know about that too). I mentioned that I ordered a new Mac Pro. It came in and I’ve been spending time setting it up. The simple setup was done quickly. You know getting email, [...]
Interesting Problem
Kathy and I have decided to try something interesting since we got the Tivo Series 3. We are going to watch the Tivo S3 from both the Family Room (where it lives and is connected to an HD television) and our bedroom (where I connect it via a coax modulator which puts it on a [...]
Good News
I ventured out into the icy roads.? Kathy wanted some groceries and so I took her car since my car has the engine light (they said I could drive but to watch it closely cause it means something is going to happen soon – oh so helpful that statement is!).? I drove very slow and [...]
Time to recover
OK, I’m on the path to recover from the bad day. Today is the day to get my windshield fixed.? Kathy is still not willing to drive on the icy roads (probably a good thing!) so I have to wait while they do it. Wednesday is the day to get my engine light issue fixed. [...]
A bad day!
OK, first the cold weather is getting a little old but I’m pretty easy about stuff like that so that doesn’t stop my day and I go on. My body is in pain. That’s because I have no sense. I spent the day before sledding out of our driveway with our boys. Our driveway ended [...]
I ordered a new Computer and it’s …
… an Apple Mac Pro.? I wrestled with the choice for quite a while.? I think the crux of my choice is that the new Mac’s run Parallel’s and Bootcamp so run Windows (and in fact, reportedly run it quite well) yet I still get to run Apple’s OS which I have grown pretty fond [...]