My musings on various topics.
The most frustrating marketing decision any company can make is forcing consumers to upgrade unnecessarily. Microsoft chose this path with Vista. In order to maintain Xbox and Vista sales, commonly referred to as hedging a bet, Microsoft decided that several of their games would only be compatible with Vista.
I just found my mixer paint job on a site! Heres the link. It a site with a bunch of mixers that have all been customized. Check it out.
Well folks after 17 years it finally happened, the Class of 90′ got back together again and had an absolute blast! We talked, ate, talked, danced, talked, and stayed up till they started collecting glasses in the bar. 17 years was too long to wait. Right now we are trying to figure out when we…
A few years ago I started researching my ancestry. I’ve been told of our ancestry as being something of a mix of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, Prussian, and German to name a few. A bit of a European mutt if you will. So the next logical step was to try and research my last name…
I started out using computers a long time ago. Here is a brief re-cap: My first computer was a Commodore PET, simple and fun. I moved form platform to platform as different options became available for me to experience: Apple II’s at school, a Mac SE that my parents bought, PCs running DOS for Autocad.…
I just got an unsolicited email this morning from Spam Arrest. The email was from joelt@spamarrest.com. I wasn’t aware of Spam Arrest so I did a Google search to see what I could find out. I discovered quite a few pages detailing the poor practices of the company. I would think it would be in…
In an effort to continue the advancement of web technology it seems that everyone, a panel of industry giants, got together and started formulating the next version of HTML standards. HTML 5 incorporates into the HTML standarda new set of tags that should bring the standard in line with how developers are currently using CSS…
With the demise of my circa-1994 Ti frame I settled on the 2007 Scattante CFR. I opted for the full Ultegra, double chainring “Race” version.
Here it is, the route I ended up on this weekend: It was a miserably fantastic ride to the top, the last six miles to the summit felt like 15 miles. On the descent down Bear Creek Road I glanced back for a second, just long enough to slam into a big rock when I…
Here it is, my site design is fractured and disjointed. I admit it. I added the blog capability, and started a gallery portion, and then never integrated everything together. Shame on me. So now that I have a lull in the storm of projects that were on my plate I am going to start working…