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Archive for October, 2005

      

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Slick javascript effects library.

Thursday, October 27th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Eddie quoted on Yahoo!

My co-worker and friend Eddie Schoenthal got a quote in Yahoo News article about lightning protection. It even linked back to our company website, that was nice of them.

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

IKEA and Firefox

We went to IKEA yesterday to get “big boy beds” for Asher and Keegan. I wore my FireFox t-shirt. It’s never drawn so many comments. Well, or any comments, really. One lady asked if I worked for the FireFox company. Another IKEA worker gave me the “Dude, FireFox is cool!” [...]

Monday, October 24th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends, Technology | No Comments »>

Character Disorder

I’m hooked on Character Disorder. It’s got that Tetris-like way of nagging me.

Monday, October 24th, 2005. Posted in Games | No Comments »>

RE: Am I being ignored?

I wonder if the new Weblogs.com like me better, now that they’ve upgraded their infrastructure.

Thursday, October 20th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Mom on the Web

The Alliance For American Quilts has posted the transcript of an interview they did with my Mom, Sue Pierce, for their Quilter S.O.S project.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Take that, Microsoft

Ouch. I was amazed to find the following quote on the main preview page for Quickbooks 2006 on Intuit’s site:

Compare QuickBooks to other products like Peachtree and Microsoft’s latest attempt at accounting software.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Best Buy or Best Lie?

Nice post about how difficult it has become to buy something from Best Buy. I experienced this when I needed to pick up a hub the other day. I needed some Cat5 cables, also, and my jaw almost dropped clear off my face when I saw that all they had were “Geek Squad [...]

Thursday, October 6th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

WinRot

My laptop has been in the throws of WinRot for several months now, but I finally decided I can’t take it anymore. Since I’m a bit short on disk space, too, I ordered a new 100 gig Toshiba laptop drive with a 16meg cache. When it gets here I’ll start the terribly unproductive [...]

Thursday, October 6th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Back from San Antonio

I just did a whirlwind couple of days in San Antonio helping the company’s warehouse there get moved into their new building. Had a bit of trouble with the T1 installation not being complete, and the “help” Qwest contracted to send out for me not really being helpful — bu t I ended up [...]

Thursday, October 6th, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>