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Why It Pays to Have a Personal Computer Rider

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Can you see the cracks in the screen?
Can you see the cracks in the screen? It’s extra creepy when I’m looking at this picture of screen cracks through the real cracked screen.

Allow me to give a little public service announcement.

Last weekend I dropped a filled duffel bag while attempting to load it into our car-top carrier for our holiday trip to Tampa. It fell from the top of our SUV, and in the bag were my Macbook and iPad.  The iPad was well-protected, but the Macbook was not; the screen shattered and one corner of the aluminum body crushed.

Don’t yell at me, I’ve been fussed at enough about this.

The computer is still working decently, although I can occasionally feel the cracking of some small shards of glass inside the keyboard.

We have USAA Property Insurance (being a military family and all), and we immediately called them about our options for getting the computer repaired or replaced.

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Glitch: Where Webkinz Meets Dr. Seuss in The Shire!

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The GeekMoms drew me into this new world of video gaming: the MMORPG. “The WHAT?” I know, many of my readers (hi Mom and Dad!) may not have heard that term, so allow me to educate you.  MMORPG = Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. A couple fellow GeekMoms got to be alpha- and beta-testers for … Read more

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Pay No Attention, Nothing to See Here….

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This is just a filler post to run a fun little experiment.  I am going to compare RSS Graffiti with Networked Blogs and see which syndication posts to my Facebook page faster. I’m leaning towards keeping RSS Graffiti because it didn’t require the widget on my site, nor did it require me to pick 5 … Read more

My First-Ever Blog Post, Revisited!

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…which wasn’t on this blog. It was on MySpace in July 2006. that’s just the link to one blog.  To see everything I wrote between July 2006 and August 2007 — I stood up this Blogger.com blog in December 2007 — use this link and select the “More” button at the bottom of the page … Read more

R.I.P. Webcam (for now…)

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The webcam on my HBTS Rexford St. Weather Underground setup is dead. I don’t think it’s the webcam itself, it’s most likely the laptop that was hosting the webcam.  That dastardly “kitchen laptop” that I’ve kept alive all. these. years. Anyhoo, since the screen on the laptop isn’t working, I have to plug it into … Read more

CrashPlan Status: UNSUCCESSFUL

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Not a complete fail, but a “mostly” fail. Today I officially gave up on the CrashPlan 30 Day free trial to send files to “the cloud”: the CrashPlan Central offsite servers.  I had a 30 day free trial to try this out, and after 27 days, I had only uploaded 60% of the files. I … Read more

Like Watching Paint Dry

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Paul and I have gone nearly a week uploading to each others’ computers with CrashPlan.  It’s been quite successful, in that we are successfully connecting to each others’ computers consistently.  That’s the good news. The bad news is that I’m seeing just how slow my AT&T DSL network is.  I purposefully selected a data plan … Read more

CrashPlan Update

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Isn’t Schoolhouse Rock the BEST????  I Googled images for “Hooray” and this scene from the episode on “Interjections” appeared. Yesterday we had success! Paul and I did a couple more tweaks with our respective firewalls, and after dinnertime, the grey lights turned green on our CrashPlan GUIs! This point-to-point uploading is going much much faster … Read more

Free, Easy, Automatic Backup???

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I called it. On Saturday I enrolled in CrashPlan for the 30-day free trial and so far I’m not that impressed. Their website claims “Free, Easy, Automatic Backup”. So far, no. Paul kindly offered to sign up also — we can always backup to each others’ machines with the CrashPlan GUI without charge — and … Read more

Our Weather Station is BACK!

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We re-assembled our weather station in our backyard over the weekend. We have plenty of fenceline to choose from, and you can’t see the equipment from the street (always a bonus in a deed-restricted neighborhood). You can see current conditions on the right-hand column of the blog now, or you can click on the “sticker” … Read more