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Which would you choose?

July 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Highway Drive to Work
(50 minutes)

This Morning’s Scenic Drive to Work
(80 minutes)

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Tags: baby · life · tech

Do I “Need” Windows?

April 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

In the last week, since I’ve made the full switch to Ubuntu, I’ve started asking myself this question, do I need Windows.
So often when I had that other boot option my though was Yes, I need Windows. “I need this program or that, I need to do that thing that only Windows can do.”
As the [...]

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Tags: Ubuntu · life · tech

Google Stalking

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

So here’s what started my story…
Yesterday my wife received a call from a young woman looking for “Matt” from an unfamiliar number. When she was told that Matt was not there, she seemed disappointed.
Well, I had no idea who might be calling me at 8:30 on a Thursday morning, and my curiosity was peaked. [...]

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Tags: tech

Blackberry 8800 - New Toy

September 28th, 2007 · No Comments

So my newest toy, courtesy of work is the Blackberry 8800.
One of the newest features of this blackberry over my last, the 8700, is the addition of the built in GPS receiver.  While I generally do know where I am, I have played with GPS before and I do like the idea of having a [...]

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Tags: blackberry · tech · work

Live Writer

September 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Honestly, I’m likely not going to have a daily blog post stating that Lily hasn’t shown her face yet…but well, that is still the case.
Actually the reason for this post is that I am playing with the Windows Live Writer, a desktop application from Microsoft designed for managing and updating your weblog.  (Got this link [...]

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Tags: baby · blog · tech

Ubuntu Install

March 4th, 2007 · 8 Comments

So I have spent the last couple of days installing and setting up Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop on my laptop. (It’s been my home sick project)
Pro’s

Installation was easy and quick from the Ubuntu DVD
All of my hardware was detected and drivers were installed with no issues.
The default software packages give me what I need [...]

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Tags: Ubuntu · life · tech

Weekend amusement

February 4th, 2007 · No Comments

First, a friend at work turned me on to a great 3rd party firmware upgrade for my Linksys WRT54G wireless router. DD-WRT adds a tonne of new features the router and increases it’s value 10 fold if you enjoy monkeying around with networking. It allows you CLI access into the linux side [...]

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Open Source Games for Windows

January 12th, 2007 · No Comments

I love open source….so free and wonderful…
With that in mind I offer you this link: Open Source Games for Windows
Hours of time wasting goodness can be found here…please proceed with caution.

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Tags: games · tech

blackberry

December 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Sweet. Blackberry gets along with wordpress interface fairly well. That makes me happy. Yes. I love the crackberry. I have been waiting for a portable device that connects me to the rest of the world and all the info I can imagine since I was about 13. For those [...]

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Tags: blog · tech

MFCOL

December 28th, 2006 · No Comments

My Fart Came Out Lumpy
The new acronym thats sweeping the internet faster that lol or wtf.
Ok, not really but it makes me laugh.
Our Chuck Norris DVDs showed up today. We’re quite excited and shall break into them this evening. A great end to the year…some real Chuck style American justice…
So I figured [...]

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Tags: life · tech