 | 5/2/03 - Another Web Site Rehost
Now on WinSave |
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12/28/02 - Web Site Rehost
I dropped Comcast as the host of my web site due to their lack of
support for anything other than their web-based FTP publishing client.
I purchased a site on
Feature Price,
a commercial web-hosting company. In addition to easier web
publishing, this site will allow me to post the
weather conditions in my back yard. |
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11/16/02 - Old Age
I am picking up my first pair of bifocals today. Dr. has been
telling me I needed them for years. The only consolation is that
I chose a pair of frames that have magnetic clip-on sunglasses. |
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11/02 - Drive failures
I had not one, but two hard drive failures this month.
Needless to say I wasn't happy about this. I no longer recommend
Western Digital hard drives. I'm returning one of them to WD in
the box my new Maxtor drive came in. This did give me an
opportunity to try out the data restore capabilities of Symantec's
Norton Ghost 2003. It worked flawlessly - highly recommended! |
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11/02 - Cat
Spoopy, one of our 2 cats, had bladder surgery to remove a growth and
a bladder stone. She decided that I was suffering from a urinary
deficiency when I was picking her up from the vet, so she peed in my
lap. Laurie got a good laugh out of it. She's on
medication and a special diet now to keep her condition under control. |
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10/02 - Painting
The exterior of our house has been painted for what I believe is
the first time in it's 35-year history. We're dumping the white
to go with tan with dark-green accents. |
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| 9/8/02 - New Printer
My old Epson inkjet printer has been producing crappy output for a
long time, so I chucked it in the trash and picked up an HP Deskjet
5550. It produces photographic-quality printouts on high-quality
paper. |
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| 8/20/02 - DVD+RW
My software and MP3 archives began taking up an excessive amount of
storage space, so I picked up an HP 200j DVD+RW writer. This cut
my disc collection to 1/7th of it's original size. I was amazed
to discover that I could record a 4.7 GB DVD in under 30 minutes. |
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| 8/3/02 - New TV
We finally upgraded our 15-year-old 26" RCA television and retired it
to the master bedroom. In it's place, a brand-spankin' new
Toshiba 34HF81 Widescreen Direct-view HDTV. |
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6/16/02 - Wireless Networking |
I got a wireless card for my
PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) so that I can connect to the wireless
network where I work. What does this mean? It means I can
send/receive e-mail and surf Lockheed's Internet from my handheld PDA
via the wireless network access points that are installed throughout
my company's buildings.
What good is this? When you're at a meeting where
90% of the material has no applicability to your job, instead of
sitting there with eyes glazing over you can get answers to questions
or distribute information via e-mail, or just surf the web to kill
time. I also installed
a combination router/wireless access point at home in order to speed
up synchronizing and backing up my PDA with my home PC. The
hardware prices and ease of use of this technology are now at a point
where I can heartily recommend this technology to anyone wanting to
network their home PCs.
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