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The Apple iTV, available Q107. Bah! Why does Steve hate me?

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We’re no YouTube or MySpace, that’s for sure. As long as someone keeps ending up at my site when searching for “hair technical,” I don’t care if that’s the only hit I ever get.

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Ava seems to be doing a bit better today, though she spiked a fairly high fever last night.  This is when it really gets rough to have her in bed with us.  It’s not necessarily that we want her in bed with us, but since she’s still breastfeeding, she tends to wake up at least […]

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Of the three hard disk drives I have sitting around running at any one time, the one I’m most worried about dying is the one that holds my photo archive. We had a thunderstorm last week that caused a power outage at the house.  Everything came back up just fine, except for the drive that […]

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It irritates me when it rings, and at our house, it rings a lot. Leah’s a phone person, which is fine. She likes to talk, period, but she’s also very close to her family and friends, most of whom live out of town, so she’s frequently on the phone. I prefer e-mail or even IM. […]

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Listening to the radio on the way in to work this morning, I learned that Iowa’s largest free municipal WiFi network is now up and running for the communities of Iowa City, Coralville, and Cedar Rapids. Pretty cool. Take that, Des Moines! Tomorrow I’m going to bring my iBook to work and head up to […]

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No, not one of those afternoons; it’s one where everything goes right. I finally got VNC set up on my mom’s wireless iBook, which was a test run for our friend Jude’s computer when she gets her new MacBook Pro next month.  It took some doing and some help from Greg (as usual), but it’s […]

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I was perusing my Webalizer logs today and saw seven referrals from someplace called IowaBlogs.net this month. I looked them up and see they’re a kind of clearing house for Iowa-related blogs (well, they call themselves a “hub” of Iowa blogs). Or at least for blogs that originate in Iowa or mention Iowa or have […]

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The latest feature to hit my Gmail account is Web Clips. It’s an RSS feed aggregator that appears at the top of my inbox. I can enter in the addresses of whichever blogs or sites I want to track, and I’ll have access to those sites’ latest stories right from Gmail. Man, this is nice. […]

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I’m not the most popular guy in the world (couldn’t guess from all the comments on the blog, eh?). It’s one thing to know that and to have fully internalized every aspect of that reality. But it’s another thing to have my Gmail account constantly slapping me in the face with these 100 invites. “Send […]

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The Seagate HD I ordered for the ministack arrived yesterday, so I was able to get that installed and running last evening. I moved my g2data directory again, so it now resides on the new drive. Speed seems OK this morning. Tonight I plan to connect my keyboard to the mini so I can restart […]

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I finally let my .Mac membership expire. Really, I never used my .mac e-mail address anymore, which was the only real benefit to the service for me. Now that I’m hosting all my sites and calendars from the mini, there’s no point in shelling out $100/yr for .Mac. Letting go, however, hasn’t been as easy […]

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I’ve decided to remove the login requirement for getting to the blog. What this means is that you’ll no longer have to log in just to get to some blog content. If you want to see the juicy posts about Ava, though, you will have to login. Here’s how that works: In the menu on […]

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It must’ve been back in the early 80s when my grandmother first introduced me to an Apple ][e. Something clicked (and it was more profound than a mouse button). I suppose if she would’ve gotten us a Commodore or some other box I might be making $250,000 a year right now, if I weren’t retired […]

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