I ended up installing Ubuntu, as I thought I would. I got FreeBSD up and running… as far as the gnome desktop appearing then it locked. I tried for a couple of hours to monkey with it, then I decided it was not worth the hassle. So I installed Ubuntu and got my podcatcher running. [...]
Well I gave PC-BSD a try and it did setup easily and installed what a common person would need for “casual computer” usage as it promises. So I would have to say that it does deliver for what it says it does. I personally did not like it, because I could not get my podcatcher [...]
I just read The Burlington Hawkeye newspaper and I found it appalling to read that Exxon has squirmed out of paying the people of Alaska, especially Cordova, anything for the 1989 spill of the Valdez. They have had a judge cut the awarded money in half, and now they are trying to get the United [...]
The reason it has been such a delay since my last entry is that I have been busy getting what data I had off of a dying hard drive. I did get all my data off before it completely died. And of course it had to be my newest external [...]
I took my wife out to supper for her birthday, which happens to be the same day as Valentine’s Day. We went to Applebees and had a good dinner. It was rather pricey, but good. Afterwards we went and visited with my parents, and it was nice to get away from the kids and have [...]
Another kid is home sick. First, last Friday it was the youngest one, now it is the next oldest one. She was home yesterday, and since it has been less less than 24 hours since she last threw up, she has to stay home again today. Hopefully she will be able to keep things down [...]
Saturday night we went out to the new Italian restaurant downtown called La Tavola, the food was really good and the prices were really low,which suprised me. Currently seating is availiable by reservations only. After there we went to Death by Chocolate sponsored by Grade A Plus which was a lot of fun. I got [...]
Not much has happened. I have a new audio at the bottom. Jo had to take kid to ER last night, details in the audio. Macy had a run in with an opossum. Other than that not much else, do have a little info on digital phones. So listen to the audio and see.
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As you probably noticed, I made a few changes to the color scheme of the site. Also I added the Day, Date and time of each post at the bottom right of each post, and as a result I edited my previous post and removed the date from the title to give it a cleaner [...]