Archive for October, 2005

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

I just had the worst software install since I tried to change my screen resolution on a Linux machine. I was trying to install Macromedia Captivate, and it only took 3 hours! Now, it can take 3 hours to install a whole OS, or even Visual Studio if your machine is slow enough. But this [...]

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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Timing

As someone who has never had an internal alarm clock, it still freaks me out that my kids pop up like clockwork between 7 and 7:30, devoid of any external stimulus.

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Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Breakthrough

Tonight as I sorted a bucket of cable into another bucket of cables I had a breakthrough. If I can’t think of a good use for it, chuck it. Not my old “good use” yardstick, which was, “No honey, we might need it again someday!” Someday in this case being the great cable shortage of [...]

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