Archives: Geek

I know I should post more entries to the blog. I know we should spend more time together as a family. This week is especially bad considering everything that is going on. We’ve begun using Google Calendar to overlay everyone’s schedule and things that are going on that affect us. (Awesome tool, by the way…check • Read More »

“How long have we been on this road?”“When are we going to turn? The sun is beating down on me!”“Are there any restaurants at the next exit?”“What about a drug store?” These questions and more can be answered with your very own personal navigation device! We decided to stimulate the economy and purchase a Garmin • Read More »

Sorry, another geek post. You’ve got your kilobyte (1,000 bytes)You’ve got your megabyte (1,000,000 bytes)You’ve got your gigabyte (1,000,000,000 bytes)And now we’ve reached the terabyte (1,000,000,000,000 bytes) I’m finally able to put the last piece of my backup strategy into place. The UPS man delivered my first-ever 1TB drive today. That’s right – 1 terabyte. • Read More »

I have an HP iPaq PDA (personal digital assistant) that’s been sitting on the shelf for over a year. Admittedly, the interest in these devices is waning because their functionality is being replaced by the ever-expanding functionality of mobile phones. Clare kept asking about it, so I decided to pull it down off the shelf. • Read More »

Beginning today, June 17, 2008, the latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser is available to the public. You can get it at the link at the bottom. I’m a big proponent of Firefox and all PCs in our house use it exclusively. I love its tabbed browsing. I love its security. I love the thousands • Read More »