Children of Dune by Frank Herbert. Yeah, yeah I know I’m *decades* behind the curve in only reading this now. I watched the Sci-Fi (now syfy – *groan*) Network’s version of this book (and “Dune Messiah”) while I was still reading the book. I recall really enjoying the movie years ago when it first aired. … Continue reading Children of Dune
I was exchanging messages with King and thought I’d post my thoughts on the software that I currently use on the BlackBerry. Hey King, I don’t use a lot of apps on my 9000 Bold BlackBerry, but I swear by Pocket Informant. It’s great for getting tasks on your calendar and I like its presentation … Continue reading My BlackBerry Software
We did some minor landscaping a couple of years ago but were never really satisfied with how the ground sloped from our new Red Bud tree. So Kim offered to create a mini retaining wall that resolves the issue of our pine bark washing away while also giving us a space to put our underused … Continue reading New Mini Retaining Wall
Had a great time at Michelle’s office party on Saturday. We did a quasi-Karaoke theme this time. “Quasi” since we realized none of us could sing so we didn’t bother with the monitor with words or silencing the actual singing on the music tracks. This works out MUCH better than regular karaoke! We even had … Continue reading Karaoke Party Pictures
This solution was posted by Doug Hellmann and worked perfectly for me, even when I reintroduced using “Sort Artist” to more finely control my podcast play order. To recap the issue check out this posting. A little more detail on the solution: Plug your iPod (presumably iPhone and any other iXXXX device) into your computer … Continue reading iTunes 9.1 – Playlist Sort order fix
Sorry to have dropped of the grid like that for a few days. I took this past Friday off for a “me” day and went cycling along the Silver Comet Trail near Hiram, Georgia. Around 23 miles into a 31 mile cycle something, I have no idea what, happened and I found myself dazedly staggering … Continue reading Back on the Grid – Post Bike Accident
It took a while but I just wanted to wrap this up. Yesterday (April 7, 2010) my credit card finally showed the refund! The amount was, as expected, the price I paid minus the shipping costs. Here is the the final exchange we had in email leading up to the refund. My follow up on … Continue reading CyberPower Refund Finally Realized.
Running iTunes 9.1.0.79 on my new Windows 7 64 bit box I noticed that none of my podcasts were auto deleting any more. So I checked iTunes on my recently replaced 32 bit XP box to see if I was imagining things. The Auto Delete was still on that one. So I upgraded it to … Continue reading iTunes Auto Delete for Podcasts Gone?
I’m pretty sure I was put on to this by a link from Mark Denney on Facebook. The North Georgia Canopy Tour website looks pretty good and I think it will be fun. We did something similar when we were in Belize this past November (here are some shots of Michelle doing a zipline and … Continue reading North Georgia Canopy Tours
As mentioned before, I absolutely *love* my HP LaserJet 1012. So I was disappointed to find that HP does not offer drivers for it under Windows 7 64 bit. After some searching I found that HP did create 64 bit Vista drivers and with a little cajoling you could use them under Windows 7. There … Continue reading Making Networked HP LaserJet 1012 available to Windows 7 64 bit
