Spring is Springing (2009-3-13)
Fun with my new toy, a Nikon D40.
Fun with my new toy, a Nikon D40.
It’s nice every year when daylight saving time causes our clocks to shift backward, seemingly giving us an extra hour in the day which I always use to catch up on my sleep. But it’s a cruel joke, since that extra hour is always taken away when the time shifts the other direction. Today, however, [...]
Ran into this one today when I was trying to install Microsoft Project Professional 2007 from my Action Pack Subscription. It prompted me for my 25–character product key (why are those things so doggone long!?) then proceeded to complain: Understand that I have Office 2007 installed on this computer, so it’s not like I’m lacking [...]
Andrei has a neat website that catalogs vanity plates from all over the US and Canada. He stumbled on a post here about my BLUCOOP license plate and added it to his collection: http://www.pl8s.org/blucoop_ga/ Thanks, Andrei!
I’m not a YouTube kind of guy, but I bumped into this video today when I did a search for “if I only had a brain” (it’s a long story) and liked it:
Just went and saw the latest movie installment of the Harry Potter series — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Excellent movie! This one is a worthy successor to the four that came before it. If you saw #4 (and truly, if you’re planning on going to #5, the odds are pretty good that [...]
It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say, I just haven’t taken the time to say it. Guess I ought to make a conscious effort to post here from time to time. At the very least, I find it a useful way to hunt down neat stuff that I ran across two weeks ago…or [...]
Back on Feb 12, my wife and I were at the Cingular store upgrading our cell phones (having just signed a new two year contract). We were approached by an AT&T/Bellsouth rep who asked for our home phone number to see if he could offer us a better deal because of the AT&T/Bellsouth merger. We [...]
The color (“Desert Mist Metallic”) is actually a little bit more brown than it appears here, but otherwise her new car is exactly as you see it in this picture (from Honda's online configurator). Kudos to Honda Carland in Roswell who made this one of the most painless car purchases I've ever been involved in. [...]