Archive | October, 2008

29 October 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Our New House

The final day is almost upon us. Stacey and I are about to close on our First house. We are both so excited. Closing was originally set up for the 31 Oct, but because of some weird issues with our interest rate, we are having to close on the 30th. Not too big of a [...]

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28 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Free Crossover Office from Codeweavers

Yep, you read the title right, and no this blog isn’t becoming an advertising site, just so happens this post and the last are right after one another. Codeweavers has created a challenge and that challenge has been met. Gas in the Twin Cities as returned to where it was a year ago, at $2.79 [...]

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27 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Project No Name Wants You

Just found a a contest site with a chance to win $1000 cash. They are calling it Project No Name. The site says that two companies are coming together and are wanting a new name. So they are holding a contest, and if they select your name, you win .. that simple. It’s pretty cool [...]

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24 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

IM Spam

Lately I’ve been getting a ton of spam on my MSN Instant Messenger account. It is quit annoying. I could of just modified my privacy settings in my client (on pidgin Tools .. Privacy, select MSN and block only users on buddy list). But I do a lot of work with open source and communities, [...]

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16 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Where technology has taken us

We take a lot of things for granted, and we don’t really think about how much we actually have. I take computers for granted a lot, and don’t think about how I use them in my everyday life, or how convenient they have made things. Actually I do think about how convenient they make things, [...]

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07 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Intel’s Solid State Disk

So apparently Linus Torvald now has a blog, as seen on Reddit Hell as frozen over. But I am glad, I enjoy reading into some of the innovative minds of our age. One of his articles is raving over Intel’s new SSD. So much so, he has me excited waiting for it to come out. [...]

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02 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Microsoft XBox 360 Support

I must say I am pretty impressed with Microsoft on the speed of their support. It took about 3 – 4 days for me to receive the packaging material they provide. Then I sent it off on a Friday and I received back a new one Last night, the following Wednesday. I had to “test” [...]

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