This is so frustrating. I have this nifty new laptop that I have upgraded to 1.25 GB of memory and it will not hibernate. Virtually all of the time, I get a bubble that says, “Windows – System Error, insufficient system resources exist to complete the API,” just like in this screen snapshot which I […]
Antique Books in Your [Virtual] Hands
You have access to pure magic in the computer screen you are looking at right now. Through the prestidigitations of the British Library, you can actually examine books hundreds of years old. BL has picked 15 fascinating examples including One of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks Mercator’s first European atlas from the 1570s The original Alice […]
Two More Flights
Last Saturday was simply beautiful with blue sky, calm winds, and moderate temperatures. I reserved N6343D and took Kevin and David up again, this time to dawdle about in the sky over our house, their school, the local baseball stadium and whatever else caught our fancy. Along the way I flew over to Spirit of […]
Coming to a Browser Near You: Microsoft Office Replacement for Free
This press release on Sun’s web site announces the new agreement between Sun and Google for Google Desktop on Sun’s Java platform. That is very nice but the last couple of paragraphs hint at something much bigger: Only the Beginning The distribution of Java and the Google Toolbar underscores Google’s advocacy of Java technology…. The […]
A Better Photographic Mousetrap
Every once in awhile, someone integrates existing technologies in a way that clearly makes life better in simple, clear ways. I think that Kodak has done so with their EasyShare-One camera. Wired News reports it well in, Death of the Digital Middleman After a summer-long delay, Kodak has begun shipping the first digital camera with […]
Clueless Republicans
Gargh! SPACE.com’s article includes, “A group of Republican lawmakers led by Mike Pence of Indiana last week said the $104 billion to replace the shuttles with a new spaceship and rockets to carry astronauts back to the moon ought to be canceled to help pay to rebuild the hurricane-wrecked Gulf Coast.” I wonder if we […]
Protected: CHOICES Presentation Handbook
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Cheaper Memory: Thanks iPod Nano?
Nikonians News: Cheaper Memory: Thanks iPod Nano? mentions, “Consumers may enjoy short-term price drops on flash memory-based products thanks in part to the iPod Nano.” If you are looking to buy another memory card for your digital camera, this fall may be the time. I knew that I liked the iPod Nano; now I have […]
Political Cronyism
Joseph, in The Corpus Collosum, is waving the banner in support of the Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act, which would prohibit the President from appointing unqualified individuals to critical public safety positions in the government. Cronyism certainly is not new. I’ll bet that the second caveman to make fire was the brother of the guy […]
SoN OF SPAM
[Ed: Just to be clear, I did not write this. I received it in an email message without attribution to the original author. Snopes.com says that it has been around since early 2004. Be careful. If you enjoy it as much as I did, you are likely to laugh to hard that you will fall […]
Miss Thailand didn’t expect to have to live there
Be careful what you ask for: MacKay [winner of the Miss Thailand crown] said she had been persuaded to enter by relatives in Thailand when she came for a visit and hadn’t realized that the title required her to stay in the country for the coming year. Reuters.com has the full story.
Holocaust Survivor Simon Wiesenthal Dies
Simon Wiesenthal (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File) Simon Wiesenthal, holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals, passed away in his sleep this morning. He was 96. May his life be remembered as a blessing. Wiesenthal spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and remembering the Jewish experience […]
Vacation 2005
Last month, Candy, Kevin, David and I took our trailer and headed north for two weeks blissful escape from the St. Louis heat and humidity. Your’s truly set a schedule that assured we arrived home exhausted and needing a vacation to recuperate from our vacation. We briefly stopped in Dubuque, La Crosse and Sault Ste. […]
“First” Flight with My Sons
I rented 6343D again yesterday and took my sons up for the “first” time. I say “first” because neither one of them remembers being up with me before, not surprising since Kevin was three and David one at the time. David was pretty cute on that last flight. I strapped his car seat into the […]
Nuclear Weapons in the Schoolyard
I was concerned to read, “The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy […]
Flying Again III
I soloed again this evening! I just had to celebrate getting my medical this afternoon by heading to the airport after work. It wasn’t quite as good as my first solo but it was still way beyond wonderful. 🙂 I only took N6343D (a C-172) for 0.7 hours, did a couple of touch ‘n’ goes […]
Bush Takes Responsibility
I am not a Bush fan but I do want to acknowledge his courage and leadership in these statements, made today: President Bush said Tuesday, “To the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility.” Full details from AP here. Now that you have accepted responsiblity, Mr. Bush, what will […]
Flying Again II
Last week, I went flying for the first time in 13 years. Today I went back up for an hour of touch ‘n’ goes with a nice crosswind. The first few were a little “off” but, by the end, I was feeling much better about my performance. The plane was on the centerline, pointed down […]
Weekend o’ Death
This must have been a weekend o’ death, with my laptop dying and Joseph’s venerable “big screen” monitor passing on to the next world. It turns out we both suffer from / relish the symptoms of “dual monitor syndrome.” It sounds like he has a pair of LCD screens while I use the LCD in […]
Replacing My Desktop Computer
Time for another big technology leap. I am switching from a desktop to a laptop as my full time machine. Until Saturday morning, I had had a desktop machine and a laptop. The laptop died a horrible and inconvenient death, though. (Now all it says when I boot is, “Trap 00000006 Exception.”) Rather than buy […]
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