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Dancing Kids

Friday, December 7th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

So, this winter, the kids have been taking dancing lessons.... check them out here....

Get Real Winter

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

Just saw this post on a favorite blog of mine HackBend.com and the post. Looks like there's a new ad campaign for Central Oregon, or more specificly Mt. Bachelor.  Anyway, you should take a look at the "Mock Movie Trailers" here. Now, ...

Christmas List

Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

I've decided to do a Christmas wish list online.  Well, partly online. On the right sidebar, you'll see an Amazon Wish list button.  That has most of what I can think of that I'd like.  In addition, I'll always take Home ...

Got to love free… maybe.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

In my last post, I talked about Mozilla's Prizim.  I haven't heard from anyone, but I really didn't expect it. Another product I want to tell you about is Google Calendar.  You can thank one of my friends in Eugene for this ...

Mozilla Prizim

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted in General | 1 Comment »

Recently I found a new application called Mozilla's WebRunner.  In a nutshell, it's a web browser stripped down to just the window so you can run web-based applications in a cleaner window.  Originally, there had to be special files created to run ...

What is Comcast doing?

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

I found this article very interesting on Comcast and their lasted round of "potential" interuption of BitTorrent files. http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/10/25/blocking-network-packets-the-comcast-fiasco/#more-1083 Now, I came from Comcast country about 2 years ago, and I have to admit, I loved their speed and bundled packages for ...

Been Offline

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

Just wanted to say I've had the website offline while we moved... and now we're back online. Now, we'll see if I can start posting more.  Stay tuned!

Ubuntu - Education Style

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

I've been installing and playing around with Ubuntu lately, and specificly, looking at the diferent version or "distributions" of it.  I wanted to set up a computer for my kids, that they can use, and have games, applications and tools ...

Ubuntu Baby!

Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

I'm not one to sit around and tinker on something, get it working, and then just sit and be idle watching it just go along.  I kind of feel that once I can get a new program figured out, or ...

Coffee Junkies

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

I just sent a reply to an email a co-worker sent me... It made me realize what Coffee Junkies my wife and I are.  I'm sure there are worse, but overall, between the two of us, we drink a lot of ...