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Wave Without A Shore
It’s a work in progress but everything should work now
I was kidnapped…
...and forced to buy shoes. Jane talked me into a pair of tennies. I cannot wear tennies. They cut the blood off to my toes. But Jane was driving. I had no choice. And I'm amazed. The whole story is on her site, and I won't reiterate that, except to say that these...
Piglet flu still has me short of breath, but the skating is improving.
Kids are still out of school, or at least some are, which means terror on the ice...I love the little princess who spent most of her time digging her toepick into the ice near the wall, so that an unsuspecting novice can fall and break his/her neck, but hey, ice is...
Norton 360 problems…and a fix.
The program would seize up and cause the hard disk to churn endlessly. This is a known issue with a file (svvchst or thereabouts) that is necessary for the program to contact the internet. Now, granted, I probably had issues with a prior installation of Norton: Note:...
Piglet flu, and back to the ice.
For several weeks Jane and I have traded an ailment that amounts to many of the symptoms of the swine flu, but a pale, pale shadow of it: exhaustion, nagging cough, dizziness, and shortness of breath. It's been going around the rink. It seems to last a week or so, can...
Matroushka files…nested computer records.
You know. Russian Nesting Dolls. That's what we've got for a file system. First you crash a computer. But save its files. Do it three times. Then get a new computer and move the files. But restore the files you're working on. Do this through Dos 3.5, 5, Windows,...
Generally I think mankind is pretty collectively smart…but…
...are the spammers going broke, or are there enough people out there who will a) take a drug OF ANY KIND provided by a spam sollicitation? Besides the usual, there are people out there offering fake vaccines, etc. b) get a mortgage from an online sollicitation...
Actual results from the diet…
...are good. We're in the Atkins induction phase. We're both the sort that can gain weight on green beans: any sort of carb loves us. And we wear tutus to skate. Spandex provides a certain impetus to be good. So we're in the protein-only phase of Atkins. We can have...
Norton screws up again…
I have a love-hate relationship with this product. It seems to target my computers for problems, while leaving everybody else in the house just fine. After the disaster of AVG, the worst program I have ever used, Norton 360 began to look better... BUT it turned out...
a nice article on cloud-computing…something useful to understand
Old hat to some of our group, but as we grow more reliant on computers, something to think about. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/04/cloud.computing.hunt/index.html I've been spending my evenings trying to straighten out 20 years of backup files---from two people who...
Our new fireplace arrived…
Jane, as usual, has a slideshow. It's not much during the day, but it's very convincing at night. Has an on-off switch for putting out a mild heat, or not; it sits right in the original fireplace, plugs into the wall. And artificial fireplaces have come a long, long...
Can evolution happen twice with an identical result?…
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029125532.htm Basically, a shrew and a lizard, hardly cousins, evolved the same poison from a similar source---digestive enzymes, which evolved to a venom---a pretty nasty venom---that aids both species. It's often been...
A very overdue thank you to some wonderful people…
I refer you to Jane's site. It's been a very stressful couple of months---and a great comfort has been caring people who have been so good to us. We sent word that we wanted to do something special for the people who got this together for us---and...
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