Sal

May 7, 2006

8 mile

I think I found me a pretty good trek for my daily bike rides. Its around my  neighborhood and the country club next door. I drove the trek today in the Vette and in the Colorado today and since I bike it twice it equals out to about 8 Miles. I think that is pretty…

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May 4, 2006

Ice Screen

In my PC Upgrade entry I talked about the new PC I got and I also griped about the seven year old monitor. Well today I took the plunge and bought my a 19inch Widescreen LCD Flat Panel.So far, I love it, except for two things. I wish it had more options for Video Output…

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May 4, 2006

7 year PC upgrade in the making

After 7 years it was finally time to get a new workstation at home. For 7 years I was running a 700mhz Gateway. It ran a slew of operating systems in those seven years. It came loaded with Windows 98. After that it ran Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSe Linux, Xp Pro , and…

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May 2, 2006

Biking Again

This is an old photo of my bike but it will server this entries purpose.Since I moved into this neighborhood I have always wanted to get back into riding my bike since its a pretty nice neighborhood; lots of trees and nice homes. So yesterday during lunch I took it over to Bicycle World to…

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May 2, 2006

I-Zone

For the longest time the Lab manager, Rosie, here at work has had a brand new Polaroid I-Zone in her office and after months of asking her for it she finally caved. An I-Zone is a Polaroid camera in which its pictures are taken on a small sticker.For some reason the pictures I took came…

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May 1, 2006

Blogger for Word

Since going to Blogger.com and creating a new entry for my blog seems to be to tedious I am giving this Blogger for Word Add-In a try. I am running Office 07 Beta and it looks like it installed fine. I setup my username and password and it looks like I can edit my most…

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April 28, 2006

The Blogger Blog

I have been having a lot of problems with my website. I have used two seperate Content Management Systems but they are both very slow. One was Geeklog and the other Joomla. Joomla was working very well at first but then it became very slow for me and for the few people that check out…

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March 28, 2006

X10 Home Automation Project 1

Surely, you have heard of X10. X10 got very popular because they started the whole POPUP advertisement craze. For that, they got a bad name. Back then they were advertising their wireless cameras. I always thought X10 was a brand when in reality it is a technology.X10 is a technology that transmits signals through your…

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March 25, 2006

First Night

Well, tonight marks the second week of me staying at my new home. I can say it has been pretty good. Everyone always wants to hear about my first night. Let me tell you a little about my home. I won’t be posting pictures til after the house warming party next month. Anyway, it’s a…

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February 27, 2006

Wallpaper

Damn that wallpaper. I have one wall left to paint and it had to be covered with wallpaper. I have never removed paper before so I didn’t think it was going to be such a pain. Rob started removing some of it while I was painting and he had a helluva time. After awhile he…

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