Jordan Life

Transitioning the blog

2011-06-09T10:57:00.000-04:00

If you've been a follower here on Jordan Life (formerly Scooby Central) you'll notice there's been less and less posting lately. That's because I've kind of become re-invigorated to work on my old website, carolinaregion.com. There's no much new code out there that I can finally do more on my own host than I can here on Google's hosted blogs. Im not deleting this blog and will probably go back

Getting my Groove Back…

2011-05-06T20:58:00.000-04:00

Yes it’s been awhile since I’ve done serious blogging, and after the week I’ve had I’m trying to get my groove back and find a rhythm that works well for me personally and for the business. My classic mistake is over-exerting myself mentally then burning out on a concept; reason #247 while I may never be an accomplished author. My life underwent a massive change when I moved out here to marry

Facebook Spam: Your Face in 20 Years

2011-05-03T21:26:00.001-04:00

This is just a heads-up to you other Facebook users out there. I logged into my Facebook account this afternoon to find out my daughter had been the victim of yet another of the daily Facebook viruses. This one seems to be mostly inane and harmless with the exception that it seems to spam everyone you know via both wall posts and messages. If it has more damaging effects I’ve yet to uncover them

Attention LiveDrive.com: 4gb filesize limitation and support problems.

2011-04-13T12:26:00.000-04:00

Since Livedrive.com is extremely heavy-handed with the censoring on their web forums it appears I have to resort to blogging and using Google index results to get answers to some of my problems. Overall I’m a huge fan of the software. It’s great! Their support however, is lacking. I’ve found most often in the past that a properly keyword-laden blog post on Google’s servers often gets immediate

Getting the Garden Started

2011-04-03T22:03:00.001-04:00

Wow it’s been a busy couple of days, at least those I’ve been home. For three days before leaving for Denver and for three days since I’ve been back I’ve been constantly getting the garden ready for this year. Those of you who know me know I’ve always wanted a “real” garden and it looks like this year I’m going to have the space and time to devote to it. The neighbor behind us has about 3 to 4

Thoughts on the Libyan War: Operation Odyssey Dawn and “Obomba”

2011-03-23T01:12:00.001-04:00

As an American who has spent significant time in Libya, made friends in Libya, and even lived there for a short time, I’ve been keeping fairly abreast of the goings-on in the recent news and I find myself having to speak out on the matter. As a citizen whose country has been at war on behalf of other nations for over a decade, yet never going to war for our own defense, and whose nation is in

How to Update your Droid X if you’ve removed bloatware and can’t get updates AND KEEP ALL YOUR DATA! (The Easy Way)

2011-01-15T11:02:00.002-05:00

If you’re like me and removed all the extra bloatware the Droid X comes shipped with (Blockbuster, CityId, Amazon, etc) you’ve probably already found out that you can no longer get updates from Motorola. I’ll try to save you the month and a half of Googling I had to do and explain why and how to fix it, and how NOT to fix it. As a side note, this should work for changing out any ROM on your

Jacob is Gone

2011-01-02T11:25:00.000-05:00

It’s a really sad morning here at our house. Little Joshua came running into our bedroom this morning crying because he’d tried to take Jacob, our family’s ferret, out of his cage and something was wrong. Jacob had tried to get out of the cage sometime in the middle of the night and got caught in the door and suffocated. The space was too small for him to escape and I guess he was just determined

Restoring my Grandfather’s Craftsman Table Saw

2011-01-01T12:55:00.000-05:00

I got up yesterday to a slow day in the shop with very little to do, and sometime mid-morning decided I wanted to get Papa’s table-saw out of storage before it got into any worse shape and see if I could restore it and build a table for it so I can use it in the shop. I currently use my Dad’s Makita 1/2 horse but that’s not strong enough for some of the needs I’ve had so I figured it was time to

1.3 Million Users Hacked on Sunday. Are you safe?

2010-12-14T15:48:00.001-05:00

Sunday December 12, 2010 was another of those wake-up call stories you might hear about most don’t take seriously. A web server for Gawker (who most average –users don’t even know of) was hacked and 1.3 million usernames and passwords were stolen from their encrypted servers. Keep in mind, most of the users of this kind of site are technically savvy users, not people who are the normal target

HDD Plus - What it is and How to Remove it

2010-12-09T19:56:00.000-05:00

HDD plus was first reported to us on December 8th, 2010. It is a new variant of an old virus, meaning it's got a fancy new face but does the same bad stuff the previous versions used to. You might also have been infected with this under the names Hard Drive Diagnostic, HDD Scan, Win Defragmenter, Win HDD, Check Disk, Ultra Defragger, or Quick

How to Download and Run a Malwarebytes Scan

2010-12-09T18:34:00.001-05:00

Malwarebytes is a great program for getting rid of malware on your computer. Notice we didn't say viruses. Malware and Viruses aren't the same thing. They have some of the same symptoms but are two different animals altogether. Most antivirus programs won't get rid of malware and malwarebytes won't get rid of viruses. If you're reading this, you most

How to Install Windows XP (Home or Pro) The Easy Way

2010-12-08T20:33:00.000-05:00

This guide is designed to walk you through the installation of Windows XP Home or Pro version. There have been hundreds of updates to Windows XP since its initial release eleven years ago, so we are going to cover all the steps to get you updated to today's current version. Relax and don't be intimidated. If you have a CD-Rom of your XP installation and a

Protecting your Identity on the New Facebook"

2010-12-07T15:19:00.001-05:00

Most of our users, friends, family, and associates have come to rely on Facebook for almost-instant-access to information about people in their friend’s list. Facebook is a great tool for both business and recreational uses, but be careful, there are some new changes at Facebook you should be aware of, especially if you’re concerned about the your privacy or the privacy of your children. No

AVG USERS BEWARE: Update Causes Crash on Some Systems

2010-12-02T11:07:00.001-05:00

We just wanted to share the news with those of you out there who run AVG 2011 (Paid or Free Versions). The most recent update AVG released contained a corrupted update file and is causing failure to boot on some 64-bit systems. This only applies to AVG versions with the virus database 271.1.1/3292 (432/3292). Other systems “should” not be affected, according to reports from AVG. How to tell

Configure Outlook 2010 to Store POP3 Email on an Exchange Server

2010-11-30T00:12:00.000-05:00

If you have multiple email accounts like we do here and are lucky to have an exchange server as one of them, you can use your Exchange server and Outlook to be able to read all your accounts from your exchange server, meaning you only have to configure ONE account on all your devices except for one computer. Here's how. Go to Account Settings Open Outlook. Press File Press Info

Configuring Outlook 2010 to Access your Pop Mail Account

2010-11-29T23:46:00.002-05:00

Information You Will NeedBefore configuring Microsoft Outlook with your new email account information there is some information you will need to have acquired from your service provider or administrator. YOU WILL NEED ALL OF THE INFORMATION I'M ABOUT TO SHARE WITH YOU so here are the questions to ask (and how to ask them) to be sure you only have to do this once! There is nothing more

Restoring my Dad’s Ishapore Enfield 7.62 Rifle

2010-10-29T21:58:00.001-04:00

Little did I know what I had in my hand when I picked up my Dad’s rifle the other day. My father died last year and left me his rifle, but only recently had I been able to go back to see Becky and pick up the rifle to bring it home. I’m pretty sure he didn’t know it when he bought it, but what you’re looking at in the photo above is the last class of non-sniper military bolt action rifles

Droid X: Adding contacts to corporate directory (exchange)

2010-10-05T11:06:00.000-04:00

Let me begin by saying that Motorola Support said this can’t be done, which I knew had to be incorrect. There’s no way they’d have made a phone to support exchange integration without having the option to add contacts directly from the device. Problem: You’re an exchange user who relies on your “contacts” for everything but every time you try to add a contact to Android it wants to add it to

The Droid X and what you need to survive!

2010-10-01T19:14:00.001-04:00

Ok, so there are probably a hundred more professional forums and blog posts out there about this topic and if you’re a major Android enthusiast you’ve probably already read them and you won’t learn anything new here. However, assuming you’re one of my friends who seem to be jumping on the Android bandwagon like I did, I thought I’d save you some time figuring out how to do to the cool things

Saturday Night

2010-08-29T00:13:00.000-04:00

Well it’s almost midnight on Saturday night and I’m out here in my workshop with the dogs, just taking some time to myself. Little one is upstairs in bed, Jo is conked out in her bed after having to stay up all night with the horse to keep it from lying down, and the wife is curled contentedly in her little feline ball form on the couch awaiting my eventual stumble towards the bedroom. I’m

Thursday

2010-08-26T16:00:00.001-04:00

No, I didn’t have anything more interesting to use for a title than just “Thursday”… it’s just been one of those days. Thankfully it’s been a busy one. I’ve received the first of my shipments for our newest and largest surveillance camera installation job. The rest should be in within a few days and then I’ll be off to Plymouth NC to save a company from 40K per month in loss prevention! Other

“You have reached your destination.” <>

2010-07-27T19:27:00.001-04:00

It’s been a harrowing few weeks lately. In the last two months I’ve made more life-altering decisions than ever before during my 33 years on this earth. To recapitulate for those of you who missed the end of Tommy’s Life, Season 32: My personal life got wonderfully better. I got married. My company is suffering the effects of Obama-Care and a crappy economy. I’ve decided to rejoin the

I Married My Best Friend

2010-06-22T23:30:00.001-04:00

When: June 19th, 2010 Where: Our House in Albemarle, NC Why: Because I couldn’t stand the idea of going a day longer without her as my wife. Some of you already know the story of the last year and a half of my life, a story which goes all the way back to 1993. If I had carried my cuff links back from my first prom date seventeen years ago I would have never married her. I remember those

A Change in the Wind

2010-06-16T00:15:00.000-04:00

I’ve been wanting to make this post for over a week, but I feel I needed to wait until the time was right, and I feel like that time has come, so I’m going to share with you what’s been going on these last few weeks in my life, and what’s to come in the near future. How to say it: They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll paraphrase: As soon as I can possibly do so, I’m