Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Streak Has Ended...At Two

I just realized that with the change of presidents, my streak of seeing the current president in person has come to an end. It wasn't much of a streak, I saw George Bush Sr and Bill Clinton, but never W. Senior was campaigning and I saw him at OC. And once I was in DC and standing outside the back fence of the white house and saw Clinton jogging. But I never had the opportunity to see George Jr. So, the streak ends at two.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

A history of horrible birthdays

Over the course of the last few days, my birthday has reminded me of the difference between my life now and my life one year ago. It's not a monumental difference, but last year on my birthday I found out I was going to be outsourced. Not great news, especially on what is supposed to be a happy day. That triggered a memory of another bad birthday. I was around 12 or so, and I was sick on my birthday. My mom made me a chocolate cake, but after blowing out the candles I declined a piece because I didn't feel up to eating anything. That continued for a few days. Finally I was feeling better and was looking forward to eating some cake. What's that you say...it's all gone? Ah man.

OK two bad birthdays doesn't really qualify for "A history of horrible birthdays" but that title was catchy.

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Welcome to power Mr. Obama

So you are the 44th president of The United States. A country built on freedom of religion and sound biblical doctrine. You are now considered the most powerful man in the world. Please don't screw up our country.

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Monday, January 19, 2009

I tomatoed my router

Do you have a high-speed internet router....one of those wonderful devices that lets you access the internet at home from your laptop without being tied down to the desk? We do. It's a Linksys wrt54g. I got it for my birthday about 3 or 4 years ago, and have loved the thing. Ironically on my birthday this year it decided it didn't want to work anymore. You could see its configuration web page, it would give you an IP address...but it wouldn't hook you up to the internet. For some reason it wasn't getting an IP from the cable modem. I figured I could flash the firmware with the same or even a newer version and it would return to normal. Didn't work. Then I thought I would try an older version. Well that pretty much killed it. When you went to the configuration page, it was there, but it was all messed up. And that killed the link to the page that let you flash the firmware. But, being the super genius that I am, I looked through my internet history,found what the flash update page was, and went to it. Like the main configuration page, it didn't display correctly, but it DID come up. So having some faith and looking at the source for the page that did come up, I worked my way through all the form fields, built my own web page, and was able to flash it again. But this time I didn't use the Linksys firmware. I used an open-source firmware called "Tomato". And it immediately got an IP, hooked up to the internet, and I was online. And today was the first day I had plans to work from home and I had horrible visions of being tied down in my office all day instead of working from the couch, the back porch, the bar, the kitchen table etc. So I'm happy. Now, back to work.

Oh wait...this isn't a tech blog. Sorry.

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Friday, January 16, 2009

I'm a man! I'm 40!

Happy Birthday to me. yay.

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Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! Now let's get busy breaking those resolutions!

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