When I was doing all the organization in my garage, I was doing it as I always do things – aggressive and get it done. Well I’m 45 now and even though I work out 5-6 days a week and am very fit, my body is not that of a 20 or 30 year old [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2008’
MacJournal – Update
I’ve been playing/using MacJournal’s trial for about 12 hours now. It seems to do everything I want including updates, tags, separate journals for Blogs, private diaries, and even imports. The imports are difficult and take a lot of work but they do happen. The imports do lose some information like tags but the data that [...]
MacJournal – using with WordPress
I saw a blog post about an updated version of a software package that sounded interesting. The reason that it sounded interesting over what I’m using right now (Ecto) is that you can have multiple “Journals”. I love having a blog to share thoughts with the world but I know that the thoughts that I [...]
Project Organization!
I know, I know! It’s a show name on HGTV or some home improvement cable network but I don’t need no stinkin’ Project Organization! We had too much stuff building up in our garage so I decided to thin it out a bit and move some stuff around. I also wanted to prep for the [...]
Impatience got the best of me
Ok, even though there were some rumors floating around I discounted them. I mean, when isn’t there an Apple rumor floating around about some new Mac or iPod or new piece of software or update or some such? This year there has been something delivered every Tuesday but I guessed that Apple was pacing themselves. [...]
Our 5 year old HDTV died
We owned a first generation HDTV from Pioneer – a Pioneer Elite Pro 730HD. The picture is great and the size has been great for our space. Unfortunately, we have had several problems with it though. We have had problems with the tubes/guns not showing the image correctly and needing to be replaced – not [...]
Obama v Clinton
I haven’t talked about politics in quite a while. This Presidential race has been quite interesting for even the most casual political watcher. First you have Hillary Clinton who started the race as the nearly pre-ordained candidate but who has lost all momentum. I think it is not because she wouldn’t make a good President [...]
Lunar Eclipse
We went to dinner with Kathy’s folks tonight and it seemed cloudy before the sun set so we figured we were not going to get to see the eclipse tonight. We had settled into watching a movie before bedtime when we got a call from our neighbor telling us we were missing the show. We [...]
Went to the Zoo
Monday was zoo day. We have a membership so we go a few times a year. We all enjoy it. Mitchell is really into tigers right now so that was his first pick. I was grateful that the tiger was at least sleeping in a visible place. Sometimes the animals are doing their naps in [...]
Mitchell’s using a Mac
At first I had Mitchell using an old Windows laptop but, man, it was painful. He was having a lot of problems and they were all due to the fact that the laptop is really slow and the websites today all have increased requirements on a system, it seems. I’ve been thinking about upgrading my [...]
VMWare’s Fusion
In using VMWare’s Fusion (and before that Parallels), I have been using a Boot Camp partition but only because I had initially set up a Boot Camp partition. I think I kept it because I thought to myself if there was some compatibility issues, I could just boot into Boot Camp and run the s/w [...]
Movie Review: Jumper
Kathy and I saw Jumper yesterday. Before I comment on this movie, I do want to note that I’ve actually read the 2 books that this movie was based on. You can check out my comments on Jumper and Reflex if you’d like. The books premise is that a teen is abused by his father [...]
Respect is hard
Respect is a hard thing. Respect is something we want and even demand from other people. Respect is something we hold in reserve and give sparingly to the people we know. Respect is difficult to define and is our definition of respect is often different for someone else. Respect for an person may change over [...]
Kathy’s been using Facebook as a kind of community location for several of her friends and she’s been having fun with it. She likes some of the Facebook applications like Scrabulous. As the dumb grunt of a husband, I figured I’d follow my lovely wife’s lead and check this out so I signed up. I [...]
Dance Dance Revolution
We got a Wii over Christmas and the family (yes, kids and adults) have been having fun with it. I got a game for Kathy but she wanted a different game instead so we returned the game and ordered Dance Dance Revolution (DDR for short). It was on back order but we got it yesterday [...]