More driving today, as we crossed 5 more states/districts: Virginia, Maryland, D.C., Delaware, and Pennsylvania. We left Wilson, NC around 9ish and found our first Starbucks since leaving Tampa about 50 miles north on I-95 … finally! Continuing north into Virginia, we decided take the Jamestown-Scotland Ferry across to Williamsburg. This entailed leaving I-95 and [...]
Archive of entries posted in June 2008
Road Trip: Day 2
Today was a driving day. We left Orlando bright and early shortly after 8am and took I-4 the rest of the way to I-95. From there we turned northward bound … We crossed into Georgia around 11:30am and then headed over to Savannah for lunch. We ended up at The Shrimp Factory on the river [...]
Road Trip: Day 1
We spent today mostly around International Drive near the Orange County Convention Center. After breakfast at the hotel and a little time spent over at Downtown Disney, we headed over to the Peabody Hotel to watch the famous Peabody Ducks parade out of the elevator, down the red carpet into the fountain in the center [...]
Road Trip: Day 0
This week we’re on vacation: a road trip that will take us 3,000 miles up the east coast of the United States, over to Ohio, and back to Florida in the next 10 days. I’ll be blogging the “highlights” when I can via my Eee. We left the Tampa area right after work this evening [...]
Farewell, Bill!
The man who brought us MS-DOS, Windows, and quite arguably shaped the PC industry as we know it today is stepping down: today is Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft. So long, Mr. Gates!
Uh, the website is down
If you work in IT, especially tech support, you’ve got to watch this. Hilarious and well done! (Warning: portions potentially NSFW)
Wow, it’s really quiet when the power is out
We had a quiet, relaxing, electricity-free evening last night thanks to a 5 and a half hour power outage in our neighborhood. It was remarkable how quiet it was in the house without all the white noise we are used to: the bubbling of the aquarium, the hum of the refrigerator and the air conditioning, [...]
Tethering the Treo 680 and Eee PC
Next week I’ll be taking a road trip vacation up the east coast which means a lot of time in the car. I thought it would be cool to be able to use my Eee PC in conjunction with my Treo 680′s data connection to get on the ‘net while (literally) on the road (instead [...]
History of the Peanut
No, not the food I’m allergic to … the TiVo peanut! Gizmodo has a great article on the history of TiVo’s distinctive remote (found via PVRBlog).
Vista search broken after SP1
I ran into another Vista SP1 problem this evening. Whenever I used Start-Search, or the Win+F shortcut, I got the following error: search: This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel. Google to the rescue again! Apparently something in SP1 [...]
