avablog

Anyone unfamiliar with the quote in the subject line of this post really, really needs to go check out The Young Ones (now on DVD!).  But I digress. I’ve been backing up all the video I have sitting around on MiniDV tapes to my NAS.  It’s been great going back over all the stuff I’ve […]

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This upgrade to the latest version of WordPress was the easiest yet. It’s especially nice to be able to do the update remotely using FTP and have it all work so smoothly. I only use a couple plugins, and as far as I know, they’re all working OK. And I love the fact that this […]

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We were at one of the local coffee houses this weekend, and I got a big kick out of looking at all the different laptops people lug out in public.  Lots and lots of Dells, which you’d expect.  A couple Apple units here and there.  I think I might’ve even seen a Sony.  But my […]

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I feel like I should be getting college credit for having read it (no, I don’t usually read spam, but I was looking for an account confirmation e-mail that I thought might’ve been mistakenly killed). In its entirety:

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The WWW’s killer app.  I’ve been waiting for this since 1990.  Why didn’t I think of it?

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Could today finally be the day I break down and buy a cell phone? I suspect it’ll be as close as I’ve ever come (which is to say, moderately close).

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There’s a big MacWorld conference this week. As always, rumors abound. I’m tempted to sit this one out, but I’m sure I’ll end up taking a peek at live coverage sometime during the day. The keynote is on the same day we’re having an inspector come and look at the house in preparation for negotiating a sale with our neighbor. It’s going to be a big week. By Wednesday we’ll likely know if we’re staying here for a while or moving in the spring.

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We’ve been in Decorah since the 25th to celebrate Christmas with Leah’s family. Yesterday Leah, Ava, Georgie, and I drive up to Minneapolis to visit relatives and get Georgie a new computer at the Apple Store at the Mall of America. We’ll drive home sometime tomorrow and get ready for Everyone to come to our house this Sunday for New Year’s Eve dinner.

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Now, why can’t I get my old lady interested in one of these?

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In case any of you were getting sick of all the cute shots of Ava: Shot courtesy Apple’s Photo Booth software.

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My mother and mother-in-law are presently experience the consequences of a huge influx of (mostly Russian-sent) spam e-mail. According to a recent story at CNN, nine out of 10 e-mails are now spam. Just amazing.

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These FedEx guys rock! China to Bumf*#k, U.S.A. in two days? El mundo es un panuelo, si?

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This computer will be a pretty big jump forward from my old machine, but for day-to-day use, there’s not much I’ll do with it that’ll take advantage of all it can do. Kevin tells me he’s been impressed by this computer’s immediate predecessor’s ability to quickly rip DVDs, but I don’t really rip DVDs. Perhaps I should start.

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Have you ever wanted to look at thousands of pictures of our adorable daughter but didn’t want to register an account at flickr, where they’re stored? Now you can!

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Leah and I were sitting on the couch last night, watching TV and chatting idly about my crazy scheme to get a new Apple MacBook laptop and give my beloved 900MHz iBook G3 to Leah’s mom in an effort to bring her at least into the late 20th Century.

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You might notice some changes over in the menu on the right. Aside from some shuffling around, I changed the search function a bit to use a Google custom search, which is part of Google Co-op. The custom search is cool because it lets me build a custom search database that contains only the sites […]

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I’m fairly excited about the weekend. First off, Leah and I are going to see The Departed on Saturday night. If it’s half as good as I’m expecting it to be, I’ll have a good time. But I’m really looking forward to working a couple “old” computers. One is an Apple iMac 400MHz DV SE, […]

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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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I went and signed up for a beta test of the new online word processing application from Google.  I haven’t played with it yet, but it looks great.  I’m eager to try creating a document and sending the text to this blog, which is one of the cool features you get with an online word […]

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