Last month after fixing a problem in Galleon’s weather application it was pointed out to me that my fix displayed the 100-mile radar map whereas originally Galleon had shown the 600-mile map. Well, I decided to take a crack at coming up with a solution for that as well. This gave me an opportunity to [...]
Archive of entries posted in August 2008
I think someone ….
… at the theater is a Monty Python fan. I went out to see “The Dark Knight” and snapped this photo: I can just picture the French taunter taking on Batman … “I fart in your general direction you silly Dark Knighit!” Gotta go … I’m posting this from inside the theater on my Treo [...]
WIJFR: Snow Crash
It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet–incarnate as the Metaverse–looks something like last year’s hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist–hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a [...]
TiVo releases 9.4 software update
My Series3 box upgraded to the new 9.4 software release yesterday. The Summer 2008 Service Update is for Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs only and includes the following new features: the ability to play (or delete) an entire folder at once (which is helpful if you want to queue up a bunch of SpongeBob for [...]
Know Your Stuff – inventory your home
For years I’ve used the home inventory feature of Microsoft Money to track important items in the house, along with purchase dates, replacement amounts, serial numbers, etc. Even when, starting with Money 2005, it was no longer a supported piece of the application, I continued to use it just because I had so much information [...]
