Road Trip 2008: Day 3

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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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