Okay, maybe I’m jumping the gun a little by considering it dead already since technically it’s still serving its purpose. For those who had been following the adventures of my poor dilapidated Dell Inspiron 4100 “Kitchen Laptop” (yeah, I’m sure I’m so popular that you guys are following my laptop), yesterday was another step in … Read more
So I’m having a grand old time working on organizing my photos on my Macbook. There’s software called “iPhoto” that seems quite intelligent. I’ve already imported all my pictures from our desktop (32,000+ photos, about 30GB). So one of the features I’m having fun with is iPhoto’s Face Recognition program. Called “Faces”, based on a … Read more
The kitchen laptop has officially been REPLACED! Finally! I haven’t been this excited about computer stuff in a really long time — I’ve been looking forward to getting a new laptop for many months, and for once I was going to save up and get something I REALLY wanted. After those months in the desert, … Read more
Now that I’m home, I’m slowly getting back to normal. One of the things that was on my mind while I was away was setting up one of our webcams (that we used to keep in touch during my deployment) as a weather webcam, that connects to our home weather station. So here you go. … Read more
Now you can see my Twitter statuses, which are also my Facebook statuses! One Status to Rule Them All!
Greetings from a happy place! Today has been a good day. I got some 9 hours of sleep yesterday and the weather I help to forecast has finally calmed down from the ridculousness I experienced my first week here. After this blog post I plan to hit the gym for a nice long run on … Read more
I used my iPhone a few times since I’ve been here. I used it quite a bit en route, uploading pictures and chatting on Facebook from Italy. My phone will officially stay in “airplane mode” for the rest of my time here! So it’s essentially an iPod touch, still quite useful to me. I can … Read more
This is what greeted me when I tried to use Google.com for the first time this morning. I did a screen capture before immediately clicking that “Google.com in English” link in the lower left. Several of my web pages are doing this, my ads on Facebook are for goods and services near my location. Some … Read more
Today has been gray and rainy all day. Ugh. Dave is in Michigan for a Google Earth conference. I’m jealous. I love Google Earth and would LOVE to learn how to write code for overlaying data! So it’s just the boys and me tonight, so we had a laid-back afternoon/evening. We built Legos, ate macaroni … Read more
Feedback please! I finally took the plunge into a 3-column blog, which I’d been wanting for some time, so I can put the “standard” widgets on one side and the “fun” widgets on the other. Unfortunately, all of my widget code was lost in the transition, so I’m in the midst of reconstructing those. I … Read more