I mentioned earlier our Furnace issue, I think. Anyhow, if I didn’t our furnace died a week and a half ago due indirectly do a storm passing through. The storm caused some micro power outages and some power surgages which in turn blue out the blower motor in the furnace. This was the second time [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2007’
OS X Leopard 10.5 Update (bugs!)
Ok, I’ve hit some bugs. One I’ve solved and one I’m leaning towards thinking is Parallels issue and will be resolved when they do their update. My first issue was that even though, before the upgrade, I had networking working with my Windows machines on my LAN, after the upgrade, it stopped working. Obviously, this [...]
Upgraded to OS X 10.5 Leopard
I didn’t get it till this afternoon (after I went to a woodworking show that turned out to be a dud!). I had done all the prep (backup, disk cleanup, permission cleanup, …). After some soul searching, I decided that my system was clean enough to risk an upgrade so that’s what I went with. [...]
Getting Ready for OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I’ve just upgraded my Mac Pro. It’s already a killer machine but I decided to add some memory to it to make sure that it can stay cutting edge for the video processing that I’ve already begun (go see the Gallery for some of the video I’ve uploaded). I’ll also be updating my Powerbook but [...]
Is Comcast the first evil of many?
Well, here goes the first company, Comcast with the first barage against any sense of internet neutrality or fairness. According to all accounts, Comcast has been killing packets of BitTorrent traffic. At this point they are unwilling to discuss their actions too. It’s obvious that the actions are not going over well with the internet [...]
Another Guitar file
Lately, my guitar teacher (Mick) has been working on some synthetic scales with me. These scales combine a mode for the first two strings, the overlapping pentatonic major scale for the next two strings, and the previous mode for the final two strings. The last restriction is that we restrict the synthetic scale to four [...]
I got new glasses
I went and got my annual eye exam. I didn’t need a new prescription but decided to get new glasses. I needed computer glasses anyway and my regular glasses were uncomfortable so I figured I would try something different. Kathy helped me find something new and different, different for me anyway. They are not wire [...]
New Guitar File
I’ve added a new Guitar download. C Chord Guitar Overlays provides the overlay of Modes (Mixolydian, Aeolian, …) with Pentatonic Major scale. These two scales are often used in improvisation together and apart. My guitar teacher, Mick, has been spending quite a bit of time showing me these overlays while working through some other [...]
Furnace troubles
We had a bit of a storm pass through. It caused the typical wind and power outages. Unfortunately, this time it caused an issue with our furnace. I tested it out a bit. The furnace gets flame and heat but the fan doesn’t turn on so no heat goes to the rest of the house [...]
Blog Update
Over the last week, I’ve been trying to do some updates to my Blog. Some of them are “under the cover” updates. I’ve been removing plugins that I’ve not been using or have been unstable or have reports of performance issues. Plugins are extra pieces of software for WordPress (my blog software of choice) that [...]
OS X 10.5 Leopard
I’ve ordered my copy of OS X 10.5 Leopard for my two Mac’s (a MacPro and an older non-intel Powerbook). I’m very excited about it. It’s not earth shattering or anything, I think but they look like they have a bunch of cool things in it. A new updated Mail.app, a new Dock, an updated [...]
Started Looking for a TV
I’ve started the process of looking at TV’s. It’s not our main TV but to me, it’s an important TV. It’s for my Gym so I watch it nearly everyday for quite a while. I mostly watch movies though I watch a bit of TV (and as I watch TV, I’ve become increasingly needing HD [...]
Early Morning Work
Still following up some more work with some more tests. Still having some issues. May be getting closer though. Newzcrawler is my test bed and is quite the bugger. I think I’m giving up. I can’t get it to work on Newzcrawler or IE (getting an icon to show up like other blogs). I see [...]
Late night work on feeds
Sorry for these technical test posts. Trying to see if I can get some minutia to work. Still struggling with the work though and I need to get to bed soon.
Change Icon
Quick post to see if syndication feed icon can be changed. UPDATE: ICO files don’t work, ok in Firefox though. PNG files don’t work, not ok in Firefox. GIF files don’t work, ok in Firefox though. JPG files don’t work, ok in Firefox though. UPDATE: Changing syndication signature. Compacting copyright and such. Removed one plugin [...]