Geeky Ramblings

Drainage

david — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:33:18 +0000

For many years we’ve had a serious drainage problem in our back yard …. every time it rained, we would get a big puddle in the back yard that would stick around for at least a week. The picture to the left is the back yard 3 or 4 days after a heavy rain. At

AT&T Microcell

david — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:14:07 +0000

We’ve never had good cell phone coverage at home … even when we had Verizon service. The coverage with AT&T is even worse … but, we do like the iPhones. I was pretty interested when AT&T announced they were rolling out 3G Microcell devices. Basically, a Microcell is a tiny 3G cell site. It provides

eBooks Readers

david — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:36:25 +0000

I just finished the 12th book in Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series … Changes. The book was quite good … very intense … and a shocker of an ending. I thought this was the last book of the series … but I’ve read somewhere else that there are eight more books planned for the series.

Utility Conundrum

david — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:14:36 +0000

I’ve got a bit of a conundrum about utilities … specifically, the Cable TV utility. In the last few days Ginny and I had a major drainage issue in our back yard fixed. We hired a landscaper to install drain tiles and pipe to collect water that was pooling in the back yard and route

w00tstock Chicago

david — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:03:34 +0000

Last sunday Ginny and I went to w00tstock Chicago at the Park West … it was an incredibly fun time. W00tstock is the brain child of Wil Wheaton, Paul and Storm, and Adam Savage. It’s billed as “Three hours of geeks and music”. Sadly, it wasn’t quite as advertised … the show lasted four and

Spam Observations

david — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:51:55 +0000

I’ve noticed an interesting trend in the comment spam I’ve been getting (luckily few of it gets through). There seems to be three basic categories … Random words surrounded with links to drug sites. Often using the wrong URL markup for WordPress. The links are frequently pointing to some mismanaged forum site where the admin’s

To Blog, or not to Blog, that is the question

david — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:43:14 +0000

This post started out as something very different … many months ago. In fact, the original post still sits in my ‘draft’ list … but will never be posted. Most of those who know me well understand that I have a lot of opinions (who doesn’t) … and I’m sometimes not afraid to express them.

Geranium [Flickr]

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Clematis [Flickr]

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On The Bleeding Edge Again

david — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:02:09 +0000

I’ve updated to release candidate 1 of WordPress. Hopefully there won’t be any problems. So far it seems to work fine. ©2010 Geeky Ramblings. All Rights Reserved..Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:Clean up /tmpPlugin: General Headers

Where Did “All Users” Go?

david — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:20:31 +0000

Recently I was having a problem getting some software installed on my laptop running Windows 7. The software (IBM’s Rational Developer for Power Systems) has a custom installer. When I tried to run the installer, it was complaining about some internal version number. Problem was, I couldn’t find any trace of the installer or it’s

Valerie, Ian, Brian, & Vanessa [Flickr]

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Jane [Flickr]

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Bad Travel Karma

david — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:49:37 +0000

It seems that I’ve got really bad travel karma (see Mauipocolypse and Mauipocolypse 2.0) . I’m currently sitting at the gate in Orlando airport because my original flight (scheduled for 7:15am) was canceled due to weather in Chicago. The worst part was the fact I had to wake up at 3:30am for the airport shuttle