Seems like I managed to have a fairly productive night. I finally got the photos of Virginia Beach uploaded (but not labeled) as well as the photos of our recent trip to Cowan's Gap. My family also had a birthday party for my Papap Warner this past weekend - his 81st …
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Get rid of 'em all
My first politcal blog post. That has to mean something.
Have you seen the news about the bill recently passed into law? I just happened to stumble upon a blog mentioning the Military Commisions Act. This basically throws out anything about habeus corpus, and possibly the Geneva Conventions. And reports …
read moreGPS Tagging Photos
Since I've been hiking a bit more recently I've gotten it into my head that I should be GPS-tagging my photos. Unfortunately, this isn't easy since the camera doesn't have any way of putting the location tags into the photos itself. Pretty much the easiest way to do it is …
read moreCowan's Gap Vacation
My in-laws, Tiff, Brady and I went camping at Cowan's Gap this weekend. Despite being very cold, the campground and facilities were quite good. Brady and I spent the time hiking up to an overlook on one side of the valley one day, then up a "Three Mile Trail" the …
read moreInitial Samsung SGH-D820 Review
The phone is working pretty well so far. It's definitely a lot thinner and lighter. The display is extremely clear and bright. The biggest thing I've noticed so far is that some actions require going through menus more than I would like, but I'm starting to find shortcuts through most …
read moreUltrasound Complete
Tiff and I spent the evening showing off the pictures that we got. Unfortunately we didn't get to be on a 4D ultrasound machine, so we just got normal fax-paper quality pictures. Still, the whole experience was great. We got to see the baby moving for the first time, and …
read more4D Ultrasound Time!
Woo-hoo! Appointment is at 14:00 - I'll post back when everything's taken care of.
read moreSamsung SGH-T809 Reviews and Firmware
Cell Phone Upgrade Time - Samsung SGH-T809
Unfortunately, I made a bad choice with the Sony Ericsson s710a. It's just too big. Fortunately there's an alternative with a much more attractive alternative, but it breaks my ties with Sony Ericsson : the Samsung SGH-T809.
The current plan is to re-flash the unit to the SGH-D820 firmware which will …
read moreFire Company 15/49 Raffle
Last Saturday there was a raffle held to benefit Fire Companies 15 (West End) and 49 (South Newton). Overall it was a big success, raising a bunch of money for both companies. I was in charge of the registration process - mostly.
In the beginning (almost a year ago) I thought …
read moreLaptop Upgrade Choices
Given that I got my laptop over 3 years ago and it's currently out of warranty, I thought it might be a good time to start looking at upgrades. I still don't have any real gripes about my laptop - it's performing incredibly well for being over 3 years old. The …
read more17 Week Baby Update
Tiff and I had our 17 week prenatal visit last Thursday. We got to listen to the baby's heartbeat again and the doctor told us it was in the 140-150 BPS range. We also had a pleasant surprise - the Chambersburg Hospital does have some of the newer 4D Ultrasound machines …
read more12 Week Baby Update
Tiff and I had our 12 week prenatal visit and everything seems to be going well. There is a concern that the pregnancy might have brought out diabetes in her or that she's developing gestational diabetes early since her diabetes screening test came back a little high. I think it's …
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Eventful Evening of Life and Hacking
Got home tonight and got gas for the lawn mowers so Tiff and I could mow the weeds for the first time in 3 weeks (the grass is all brown - it really was just weeds). We then went over to the South Hampton park and walked a mile and a …
read moreMacromedia Flash finally works
Ever since I upgraded to FC5 my Flash plugin has crashed Firefox. This typically wasn't too big of a deal since I primarily use Konqueror, but I've been using Firefox more often recently since it's javascript support and web debugging tools are a little better. The browser crashing was getting …
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HTPC One - Ignition!
Sorry - guess all the space shuttle stuff is getting to me ;-)
Thanks to a recent deliver of one ATI X300 w/ s-video output, my HTPC seems to be running. I'm currently watching The Polar Express through Xine, but there's a lot of configuring to go.
The display is currently pretty …
read moreThe Bike is a Go
I got my Schwinn back together yesterday. All cleaned up and in once piece :-D.
I ordered the tubes and tires from Bikeman.com. The tires looked fine, but the tubes looked a little odd. Did you know they make different style valve stems? I didn't either. So, my new …
read moreDesktop No More
Well, I made my decision. I'm killing my desktop.
I swapped Thor's Athlon 64 mobo with Manfred's Athlon XP motherboard under the assumption that the 64bit stuff will be put to more use in the PVR. That went fine (Thor was still FC4 - i386 version :-/). The problem came when I …
read moreLife without a desktop?
So, I'm trying to figure out what to do about my dead Xbox. Well, not about the dead Xbox, but about not having a PVD. The problem is I don't have the hardware laying around to build a PVD/PVR/DVR. Unless I use something I already have - like my …
read morePrenatal Visit Results
First picture of our baby! It was really neat to watch the baby's little heart fluttering on the ultrasound machine. Tiff had to have an internal ultrasound since she's 7 weeks 5 days and the baby isn't big enough to be seen on an external ultrasound (more likely it's not …
read moreA-camping we will go
Tiff and I made a small purchase this weekend.. a 2001 Coachman Clipper travel trailer.
We managed to get pretty wet at Raystown this year. We had at least one thunderstorm every night this year (except Saturday). Friday night it literally rained all night, and started dripping on us around …
read moreResurrecting the Schwinn Mirada
My bike has been in my Dad's shed for quite awhile now. Quite awhile. I think it's time for me to get it out and use it a bit.
The first thing it's gonna need are tires and tubes. I remember that getting them isn't a great deal of fun …
read moreSmall Battles
Well, while I might have spent about 4 hours of my evening trying to get my Xbox to work, I did manage to take 10 minutes and replace a dying fan in Thor to get my file server up and running again. I guess that should account for something.
I …
read moreXbox is on the way out
Looks like I might have to revive my PVR project. My Xbox's network card appears to have gone out, and after a night of fiddling w/ it, I don't think I want to put any more effort into it. Now I just have to get it working again so it …
read morekernel-2.6.17-1.2145 seems a little better
Well, it still tries to force the bcm43xx driver in place, but at least I can rmmod it and modprobe ndiswrapper without things getting wacky. I'm going to try to get the bcm43xx driver loaded up w/ WPA and see if it works at all... here's crossing my fingers.
read morePost-Vacation Thoughts
The vacation was very nice, and much needed. We left Saturday morning around 07:00 for Ruckersville, VA and arrived around 10:00 - pretty good time. We went to the ACAC waterpark (mostly a big pool with a couple slides) and spent the afternoon there, baking and swimming. We ate …
read moreBig Mass Update
Figured I need to throw a ton of stuff out there, since it seems like so much is going on.
Last Tuesday (the night before my vacation to Raystown) I had a trustee meeting at church. I had no clue what was going on, but I was supposed to go …
read morePerspective
Ah .. the blogger returns! At first, you might think I'm referring to some other recent life happenings, but there's a lot more than that.
Life at PA.net was good. I didn't really like where the owners of the company where going (or not going, actually) but the work was …
read moreBusy and Eventful Weekend
We spent the weekend running around all over the place. Saturday we had a birthday party for Gabe Burkholder at Adam and Shanen's place where we got to see a bunch of people we hadn't seen in awhile (some of them very pregnant!). After that we went to my parent's …
read moreTrackbacks Disabled
Due to comment spam, I've had to disable trackbacks. I don't think this is a big problem for anyone; the technical implementation was really bad. I don't have any approved trackbacks, but 1,938 non-approved trackbacks - all spam. This should hopefully slow down the flood of 'approve this comment!' emails …
read moreFox Hunt winners!
[Brady] and I managed to find N3MMH in a little over an hour today using a 3-element yagi we built yesterday (and finished this morning) out of an old TV antenna. Not bad! Of coruse, that means we have to be the fox next year...
In other ham-related news, I …
read moreCrazy DNS
After a FC4 glibc update a couple weeks ago, I've found that yum updates stopped working. When I went to debug it, I eventually found that the "lesser" programs like ping and ftp worked, while the "higher-level" programs didn't; like curl, wget, ncftp, and yum.
I tracked this problem back …
read moreFC5 Upgrade Complete - Dual-Head broken
For the most part my upgrade to FC5 went very well. I spent a lot of time upgrading things I had done incorrectly in the past (like installing Eclipse plugins in the wrong place) and trying to get the Broadcom Linux Driver working w/ WPA, but for the most part …
read moreSite Update - Gallery 2.1
Silly Lights
You may remember me talking about LED lights for marker signals after I baked my headlights. Turns out blue isn't the best idea for marker lights, as it's a bit illegal.
Last Thursday on my way in to work I got pulled over by a state cop sitting right along …
read moreOne Month Later..
Yeah, I did get my car back last month. Really should've blogged about that awhile ago :-/
Got my first "Genius of the Day" award yesterday at work. Made me feel good, even if it was just a small suggestion for a change to how the customer sees stuff.
I got …
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