tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301194882012-10-03T20:20:09.551-05:00One person's life and explorations as a geeky-girl: Miscellany and musings. Nothing that will shatter the world, but might amuze a few.Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125GirlGeekInRealLifehttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-69298335753158164192010-06-18T05:13:00.005-05:002010-06-30T18:03:39.358-05:002010-06-30T18:03:39.358-05:00

It's been more than 10 years. It's been one of the longest relationships of my life. But this week, I'm saying goodbye to the Palm OS and to Palm.I'm very sad to have to do this, but Palm has changed. While I'm all for growth and change, some of us do like a little hint of the old way of life.I've had my Palm Treo 755p for almost 3 years. But I've been a Palm OS user since my first Palm Pro

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-71445216684898264762009-12-10T07:00:00.000-05:002009-12-10T07:01:12.504-05:002009-12-10T07:01:12.504-05:00

Busy.Yep, so busy that I've let something like seven months pass between blog entries. I've discovered that it's very difficult for me to do different types of writing at the same time, and since the early summer, I've been incredibly focused on my fiction writing. I've been literally writing every single day - and it takes away from being able to blog, or even keep up with my own personal

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After almost 30 years of playing on the computer my wrists hurt. So I thought it was time to finally turn on the speech recognition stuff in Windows Vista. I've been playing with it for almost 24 hours now and it's pretty neat.In fact, I'm dictating this blog post right now.Overall, it's working great. I am working a little slower but I think that's because it takes a different part of the brain

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-20439329029693567672008-11-29T15:20:00.002-05:002008-11-29T15:25:23.587-05:002008-11-29T15:25:23.587-05:00

Over the past month people have been asking me:  What's next?I'm starting to get weened off the satellite we just launched, my store has been closed for months, my 2nd book is done and at the publishers, I'm not going on a big sailing trip in the spring... so what's next?  I think it's all about the a.i. chat bots now and possibly a new business.  I've been into the whole a.i. thing for a while

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-50900780224174585372008-09-05T20:57:00.005-05:002008-09-05T21:10:48.827-05:002008-09-05T21:10:48.827-05:00

Well, as of when I left work today, everything is "Green" for launch tomorrow! Including a fabulous weather forecast at Vandenberg, the launch site.If you're not doing anything else exciting at 2:50pm EDT Saturday afternoon, watch the launch feed live at either:http://launch.geoeye.com/ or http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/missions/335/I believe they start broadcasting at least 30

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-8793975131907846822008-09-02T19:43:00.003-05:002008-09-02T19:57:50.047-05:002008-09-02T19:57:50.047-05:00

Yes, the universe - she is laughing at us I think.After yesterday;s blog post, I went to bed last night and we really were 3 days from launch. I woke up this morning to discover that Hurricane Hanna was threatening to add a delay. Could it be? Could a hurricane off the coast of Florida that seemed to be loosing steam have any effect on our launch from Vandenberg, CA?Here's the PR that came out

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-24283849001532776342008-09-01T19:51:00.005-05:002008-09-01T20:07:44.827-05:002008-09-01T20:07:44.827-05:00

It's been an interesting month! A slight delay from Aug 22nd to Sept 4th, yes, but right now we're just getting ready for the big day - this Thursday - when a Delta II lifts GeoEye-1 into orbit! Yee ha!I can't tell you how excited I am! For so many reasons: This is the first launch I've worked in 10 years I've been on this project for almost 4 years - it's time! We're going to take some super

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-63471563513615897822008-08-20T05:10:00.002-05:002008-08-20T05:12:45.828-05:002008-08-20T05:12:45.828-05:00

I've been trying to make better use of my twitter account.I just learned this morning about twitterfeed.com that feeds blog posts to twitter. This is a test - just a test.PS: Follow me on twitter, too: http://twitter.com/adeena

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It's getting so close - it's hard to describe the excitement and anticipation! While us engineers and operations folks are getting things ready in the control center at our headquarters in Dulles, VA, another side of the company - the part that tasks and operates our existing satellite Ikonos, is busy taking pictures. Since GeoEye-1 was delivered to Vandenberg, they've been trying to grab a pic

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And I'm super excited! Why? I work for GeoEye on the GeoEye-1 program and it's the first launch I've participated in this actively in a decade. I'll be in our control center on launch day, mostly because my responsibility for the past 3 and a half years has been the development of all the ground systems responsible for the command and control of the satellite. My career has primarily been in

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-36255351132565415282008-06-01T08:20:00.000-05:002008-06-01T08:20:02.026-05:002008-06-01T08:20:02.026-05:00

The apache server I struggled to get up and running on my home computer came in handy recently - along with having PHP and MySQL installed. I spent a good part of the spring working on making a chatbot that would be entered into one of the geekiest contests I've ever seen - a contest based on the Turing Test.The Turing Test - conceived by Alan Turning more than half a century ago - is a test to

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-63775722996885779852008-04-01T02:29:00.003-05:002008-04-01T02:31:40.604-05:002008-04-01T02:31:40.604-05:00

I was looking for better ways to display comments on my blogger blog here... I never liked that there is a little # of comments link at the bottom of each post and one needs to click to see them. I found this widget:http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/08/create-your-oen-recent-comments-widgets.htmlAnd you can see the results here on the sidebar on the right.Do we like? I'm not sure yet...I found

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-73584886887931173862008-03-30T14:57:00.002-05:002008-03-30T15:08:59.981-05:002008-03-30T15:08:59.981-05:00

I'm a coder/scripter... I'm not the person who deals with or likes to deal with installations of programming/scripting environments which made trying to "serve the web" from home last summer so frustrating. But I had to get back to that... because I had a new project I wanted to work on that required using PHP and MySQL. So I had to get all that set up. Since I had downloaded (and thought I

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-59819744645236351732007-12-29T14:59:00.001-05:002007-12-29T15:19:21.592-05:002007-12-29T15:19:21.592-05:00

Here's a roundup of my favorite websites from this 2007... (this doesn't include the fact that I'm a facebook and del.icio.us addict)mint.com I can't believe how many hours I've wasted in the past with software like Quicken. This is the best money management tool I've ever used. It's so simple, so easy and so useful. This is my favorite of this list of favorites. animoto.com Have a few pics that

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-66672973554886329952007-11-19T20:53:00.000-05:002007-11-20T06:47:35.694-05:002007-11-20T06:47:35.694-05:00

I've recently had the opportunity to compare my Treo 755p to a Crakbe... I mean Blackberry 8703e.I got the Blackberry for work - meaning work forced it into my hand to make me even more accessible to them. So now I'm carrying around two devices - except that outside of normal working hours I ignore the Blackberry and inside the work day, I (mostly) ignore my Treo.Long story short: I would again

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The short version: I'm glad I did it.The longer version:I've been using the Treo 650 on the Sprint network for more than 2 years now. I've been using various Palm OS devices for amost 10 years, so when I decided to start thinking about upgrading, I wasn't about to switch to a windows device or even the iPhone. The Palm OS devices does everything I need and more (it does everything the iPhone does

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-92036809562986810672007-07-08T05:45:00.001-05:002007-07-08T05:51:35.790-05:002007-07-08T05:51:35.790-05:00

You may have noticed the Tag Cloud up above. I learned how to do it from a fabulous post on "How to make an awesome Tag Cloud!"But if anyone can offer any suggestions on how to work with the formatting in the new Blogger, I'd appreciate it. It looks great as a sidebox, but I want it up top like you see it and I'd like to be able to space it better from the edge of the box.Geek needs help!

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-66420941839963715452007-06-03T20:25:00.000-05:002007-06-03T19:25:31.289-05:002007-06-03T19:25:31.289-05:00

I spent a long (and frustrating - but geeky and educational) day with my computer yesterday. I decided I was going to install a web server on my home PC.You see, on the website I use for my business I have a special place were I set up a set of forums just for me and my employees using XOOPS ( see http://www.xoops.org/ ). It's fantastic and we've come to rely on it as our primary mode of

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One of my goals in life is to live "OTG". That stands for "Off-the-grid" and refers to living free of the power companies. I am fascinated by solar power and would love to add a solar power system to my house.The problem is that investing in a solar system is a significant cost investment and usually isn't worth it unless you plan on being in that house for 10+ years. I can't commit to staying in

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Way back when I was a youngin' I sometimes had problems thinking up ideas for science fair projects that I found interesting enough to devote more than an hour of my time to. These days I have no problem coming up with the ideas. I just wish I had them 20 (yes, 20) years ago.Here's the one I really wish I'd thought of: [ Note: if you're a junior high/high school student who needs a science

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...and just how many are there? Can you see them? Where is the ISS? I recently found this neat website:www.heavens-above.comRegister (it's free) and put in your location. Then it gives you a whole bunch of info on satellites that can be seen from your position and other stuff.Another neat thing about the website is that it gives information on satellites that are leaving our solar system (e.g.

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About 10 years ago, I worked in satellite operations for about a year. I left that position after I felt I had learned all I could learn and realized that within my group there was not going to be much room for advancement.The thing is, satellite operations is boring. But that's the ideal condition for operations - if everything is running smoothly, it's the same thing, day after day and it's

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... or is there simply not enough time in the day to learn everything?As the self-professed geek that I am, I've always prided myself on being up on the latest tech stuff whether it's new internet tools or geeky toys. I've also always prided myself on being able to figure out new stuff pretty quickly and efficiently. So why did it take me forever to navigate through the myriad of options for RSS

Adeenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063416734690895115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30119488.post-87789438294342321782007-02-03T12:15:00.000-05:002007-02-03T12:33:55.974-05:002007-02-03T12:33:55.974-05:00

This is fascinating..I read about the missing sailor last week and now all my Google Alerts having been picking up blogs and other postings about using satellite imagery to find his boat. I'm fascinated by this of course, not only because I'm turning into a sailor myself, but because I work for GeoEye, one of the companies involved in collecting the satellite imagery.I'm thrilled that we're using

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I decided (with the gentle encouragement of my significant other) that my new year's resolution this year would be to declutter. Yep. I'm going to get rid of stuff by any means necessary... donate, ebay, trash... whatever works for the item in question. I read someplace that the amount of stress a person has is directly related to the amount of stuff a person has. So, if I declutter, I

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