It’s taken along time but Kathy’s folks are now online. We’ve given them one of our old computers and they signed up for the least expensive DSL packages and I set them up yesterday. I’ve got them up with email, browsing, and just a couple of simple applications. I also put widgets on their desktop [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2007’
Woodworking Show
I went to our local Woodworking Show today. As I said in an earlier post, Marshall and I go every year. This year we both felt the show got a bit smaller. We finished walking the show floor in about 3 hours. We also didn’t feel compelled to go to any of the training sessions [...]
MP3, ID3, Quicktime Development in Xcode on OS X
I’ve decided to begin the development of an MP3 ID3 tool, similar to my Windows tool (see the download area for the tool). I’m still way in over my head. I’m not a very proficient developer anyway but usually I can find samples or something to start with because I’m pretty decent at coming up [...]
iTunes
I use iTunes to manage playlists and such. Unfortunately, I don’t really want iTunes to manage the actual files. iTunes wants to put songs in a particular organizational structure that I’m not fond of and that makes things hard to track and move around (all based on artists and albums). I prefer a simple playlist [...]
Local Woodworking show …
The Woodworking Show is making the rounds and is in our neck of the woods next weekend. My friend Marshall and I have made it an annual trek for the last 15 years (I think) so we’ll be heading out again this year. I do have one tool that I hope to see in person. [...]
Book Review: Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong has written a lot of books with the tag line “Meet the Women of the Otherworld” which are about various women of supernatural ability. Bitten is about Elena Michaels, a strong, sexy woman who also happens to be a werewolf. She has decided to isolate herself from her pack though because she doesn’t [...]
Book Review: Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
This was an interesting and different kind of story. The concept of the story is that we are in some sort of similar Earth but where Magic comes and goes in waves. When Magic comes, technology doesn’t work so good if at all. There are magic players who participate in the society. Some are good [...]
New Theme
I put up a new theme. I found this theme that was in the style of the Mac OS X operating system. Since I am using it almost exclusively lately, I thought it would be interesting to add to my pallet of themes. Anyway, you can check out the Theme Switcher (in the sidebar) and [...]
GoDaddy
I was having a problem with my blog. It turned out to be a much bigger problem than I originally thought but I’ll get to that in a minute. I had set up a subdomain so that we could get to my blog and our photo gallery easier. Our domain is www.kathyandglenn.com and the subdomain [...]
Coppermine – PhotoBlog
Last year, we used Coppermine, PhotoBlog Software but we had some issues with uploading. It would only allow us to upload about 5 images at a time with any reliability. Well, I’ve been playing with the latest version and it seems to have fixed that problem. I seem to be able to upload a whole [...]
Vacation Pictures are Posted
Kathy was busy tonight and posted our vacation pictures so check out the gallery tab at the top of this page. Here is a nice picture of Xander and Mitchell. They are riding a camel statue at the local zoo. Yes, Palm Springs has a zoo – it’s called the Living Desert.
Moved hosting services
Kathy and I decided to try something different. We had been using a hosting service called Netfirms which is located in Canada. We had been using them for more than 2 years, I guess – maybe closer to 3. For most of that time that service and support has been great. In the last year [...]
Home, Home at last!
We got home safe and sound. I feel better already. I was able to take an honest to goodness nap in my own bed (I don’t think I mentioned how bad the bed was in the rental house in Palm Springs!) and that helped a lot. I even had some soup for dinner … because [...]
More Vacation News
I think I mentioned that Mitchell was sick (a virus – stomach/intestinal) on our trip out. Poor guy was not having a fun time. Fortunately he recovered quickly and was mostly back to himself. Except for his appetite because that took a few days to get back to normal. It might have been because he [...]
Vacation News
We’ve been having some fun. It’s been great seeing my folks. The kids have been great though they probably have more fun with my folks two dogs Sydney and Missy. Xander and Mitchell were a little tentative around the dogs at first but after a bit they have gotten comfortable. Missy especially is a bit [...]