Zb-log

Windows 7 Gadgets

2010-06-04T12:47:00.001-07:00

I've started a new job now and loaded Windows 7 on my Laptop. I'm in the midst of examining the WindowsLive DesktopGadgets to see if any of them are usefull. So far I feel like this experience has been a waste of time, but maybe I'll find that some of these little doo-dads make me so productive that it's like I'm three new people with four arms each.

2008-12-22T07:38:00.001-08:00

- Thinking if it's gotta be Christmas music, it might as well be Ronnie Spector

2008-12-08T15:23:00.001-08:00

- watching "Prancer" with my youngest.

2008-12-06T20:20:00.001-08:00

Watching back2back Harry Potters. My wife should be here.

2008-12-05T11:54:00.001-08:00

- So many ____ and so little ____. I guess I'll just have to ____.

2008-12-02T18:35:00.001-08:00

- watching "Elf" with my youngest daughter. Hmm, I think I have an idea for another picture!

2008-12-02T16:55:00.001-08:00

- people eating tarantulas on Animal Planet. That's both ew and aw (poor things).

2008-12-02T15:04:00.001-08:00

- looking for info on MS Outlook and Open Source interop.

2008-12-01T00:01:00.001-08:00

- I love Gimp http://www.gimp.org/

2008-11-29T18:55:00.001-08:00

- watching my youngest program the new remote.

2008-11-28T01:03:00.001-08:00

is stuck in an endless FOR EACH loop!

2008-11-27T12:32:00.001-08:00

- The smell of turkey is making me ravenous!

2008-11-25T05:59:00.001-08:00

- Last night Gretchen and I saw "Wicked" then went to the Perkins we used to go to on dates when we were in college.

2008-11-24T03:55:00.001-08:00

Lookin' at lolcats.

2008-11-19T08:10:00.001-08:00

- pounding VBA, PHP, MySQL and Excel while bopping to Hank Green http://ping.fm/qUeEr

2008-11-18T20:14:00.001-08:00

- Listening to the Hank Green CD Gretchen brought home from the Nerdfighters tour appearance. Kat got a zombie doll from Hank!

2008-11-15T16:10:00.001-08:00

- groovin' (beatles) and codin' (php)

2008-11-11T19:37:00.001-08:00

- lops are the coolest pets!

2008-11-11T01:07:00.001-08:00

- My import finally works! woot! Now to finish loading fedora for the 3rd time.

2008-11-10T15:14:00.001-08:00

- codin' & loadin'

2008-11-10T13:40:00.001-08:00

- Time to try ubuntu

2008-11-09T18:27:00.001-08:00

- Quiet Sunday evenings are nice.

2008-11-09T00:05:00.001-08:00

- getting a bootable image of fedora should not be this hard. If it doesn't work, I'm gonna try it on a PC instead of a Mac.

2008-11-07T20:57:00.001-08:00

- "Does it have enough cables included?" Wish I'd asked the guy at the store a 3rd time. Know any late night purveyors of sata cables?

2008-11-07T08:36:00.000-08:00

- snow, coffee, code

2008-11-04T21:39:00.001-08:00

- I'm once again proud to be a citizen of the United States

2008-11-04T12:26:00.001-08:00

- I think Palin voted for Obama.

2008-11-04T09:43:00.001-08:00

- MC Frontalot just released his new CD "Final Boss" http://frontalot.com/cd yowza!

2008-11-02T14:24:00.001-08:00

- I'm creating a "music to program to" station on last.fm called octotroph. tag your fave coding music with octotroph to build it.

2008-11-02T14:23:00.001-08:00

- Late to the game as usual, I've discovered last.fm.

2008-11-01T08:11:00.001-07:00

- Gettin' it Dunn.

2008-11-01T00:54:00.001-07:00

- Halloween is done. sigh. The kiddos got a huge haul.

2008-10-30T15:41:00.001-07:00

- Bustin' out the Perl books once again.

2008-10-29T06:43:00.001-07:00

- I'm so excited about finding a lorem ipsum generator online! http://www.lipsum.com/

2008-10-28T15:20:00.001-07:00

- Looking forward to taking the kiddos to the movies.

2008-10-28T03:35:00.001-07:00

- I'm tired, but I got my mockup done, and had fun doing it!

2008-10-27T14:02:00.001-07:00

- Programming at my "other office", Dunn Bros. I love VMWare!

2008-10-25T20:06:00.001-07:00

- getting a little programming in before going to listen to a friend's band

2008-10-24T10:57:00.001-07:00

- I'm soo soo tired.

2008-10-23T17:33:00.001-07:00

- No matter how many ____ you ____, you still won't ____.

2008-10-23T08:18:00.001-07:00

- is waiting impatiently.

2008-10-22T10:05:00.001-07:00

- on hold.

2008-10-21T17:25:00.001-07:00

- We've got bunches of fresh Co-Op grown onions, anybody have good ideas on how we should use 'em?

2008-10-20T06:58:00.001-07:00

- got Kat off to school with seconds to spare

2008-10-19T19:37:00.001-07:00

- I love our local Vietnamese restaurant. They're so sweet, and they always remember us.

2008-10-19T15:18:00.001-07:00

- downloading Halloween tunes for my kiddos.

2008-10-18T12:41:00.001-07:00

- Pickin' up the cow.

2008-10-17T11:09:00.001-07:00

- My ____ is so ____ that I can't even ____.

2008-10-16T14:54:00.001-07:00

- Happy Dictionary Day! I love words so much that I get a ________ in my _______ and then I have to ______.

2008-10-15T19:16:00.001-07:00

- So happy I downloaded "Wig in a Box"!

2008-10-15T17:03:00.001-07:00

- Doing something right.

2008-10-15T10:04:00.001-07:00

- I love my work!

2008-10-14T15:34:00.001-07:00

- Researching Exchange, Outlook, and various versions of MS Office.

2008-10-13T17:56:00.001-07:00

- Birthday dinner at my MIL's, cranberry pistachio chicken, nummy!

2008-10-12T18:59:00.001-07:00

- Kimchi Jigae for my birthday meal. Yum!

2008-10-11T19:41:00.001-07:00

- "Saved by Zero" by the Fixx has been made into a commercial. That was one of the first tapes I ever bought on my own.

2008-10-10T21:55:00.001-07:00

- Watching True Blood on hotel HBO. Kinda gross but kinda interesting.

2008-10-08T19:22:00.001-07:00

- Holiday Inn has made a policy to install scent machines into all of their hotels. The scent gives me a migraine.

2008-10-08T04:05:00.001-07:00

- watching CNN as I crunch my granola in almond milk. Thinking I should change the channel to Fred Rogers.

2008-10-06T21:34:00.001-07:00

- Listened to the book-on-tape of "Click" on the trip to Aurora. Good stuff, I highly recommend it to digerati and data wonks.

2008-10-06T18:36:00.001-07:00

- Burger King is always a bad decision for me. Hopefully the Neopets toys were worth it.

2008-10-04T21:23:00.001-07:00

- Had a fun time at the German Settlement barn dance. I think the Chicken Dance was the best part.

2008-10-04T10:30:00.001-07:00

- My kids are pretty excited about the barn dance.

2008-10-04T00:00:00.001-07:00

- 70 in WoW, and ALL the Facebook Jambool Karmas! I'm feeling pretty proud of myself for these silly virtual accomplishments.

2008-10-03T14:47:00.001-07:00

-head, belly, plate, all full. I'm thankful.

2008-10-02T16:26:00.001-07:00

- Has a pet virus, but is hoping it runs away.

2008-10-02T02:38:00.001-07:00

- not fond of the taste of ibuprofen

2008-10-01T20:40:00.001-07:00

- Almost made it to 70! W00t

2008-10-01T17:22:00.001-07:00

- Gretchen made some kind of banana curry over fish. Yum!

2008-10-01T09:50:00.001-07:00

- It's surprising how productive I can be in Zomboid-No-Sleep mode.

2008-09-30T06:57:00.001-07:00

- My middle daughter learned how to create animated gifs last night. I'm so proud. her howling wolf is too cute. http://ping.fm/26788

Wolf For Dad

2008-09-30T06:52:00.000-07:00

My daughter's first gif, a howling wolf.

2008-09-29T21:53:00.001-07:00

- Is gotta bed go itred am sleepneed

2008-09-29T16:53:00.001-07:00

- Drawing pictures of how people do what they do. Process documentation don't ya know.

2008-09-29T14:28:00.001-07:00

- Wrasslin' with MSDN

2008-09-29T12:32:00.001-07:00

- Wanting "Veteran for Obama" stuff for my birthday (yardsign, t-shirt, bumper sticker). I just hope my yard signs don't get stolen again.

2008-09-28T21:30:00.001-07:00

upgrading my MacBook. Leopard, new HD, new mouse, VMware, XP, Office, Visio, Visual Studio, crazy fun. No really. ok, maybe not.

2008-09-28T19:55:00.001-07:00

- Trying to settle down

2008-09-28T14:01:00.001-07:00

- Having fun doing work on a Sunday. Really.

2008-09-27T23:06:00.001-07:00

- I got the crud. :-( Where can I give it back?

2008-09-26T23:40:00.001-07:00

- That was THE most uneventful Presidential debate in my memory. Boring. I was hoping someone would fall on the ice during a double axel.

2008-09-26T08:04:00.001-07:00

- Is wondering why Journey songs are running through my head.

2008-09-26T05:58:00.001-07:00

- I'm willing to admit publicly that I am not a Peter Cetera fan. Thank you.

2008-09-25T21:04:00.001-07:00

- Wondering why all the cats from Hawaii that I've known were vicious and spiteful.

2008-09-25T20:01:00.001-07:00

- Chinese food at Shuang Cheng in Dinkytown. Yum!

2008-09-25T15:20:00.001-07:00

- mini-golf at MOA with a bunch of kiddos

2008-09-25T11:31:00.001-07:00

- off to the raptor center

2008-09-25T10:16:00.001-07:00

- I so need coffee

2008-09-24T21:37:00.001-07:00

- Spent the evening with Air Force friends of the long ago. Very cool.

2008-09-24T06:56:00.001-07:00

- Dealing with my usual pre-presentation jitters.

2008-09-23T18:36:00.001-07:00

- Working on 2 projects while listening to Charlie Parr's myspace (http://ping.fm/T5Zgx)

2008-09-23T16:22:00.001-07:00

- I find myself envying the flight of the geese as they float like leaves to the rain sparkled empty parking lot.

2008-09-23T11:38:00.001-07:00

- Deep in thought at the juncture of privacy, messaging, calendaring, culture, and logistics.

2008-09-23T08:55:00.001-07:00

- Good friends from long ago are coming to town. Between that, wrapping up old business and working on new, my schedule is now full.

2008-09-22T15:48:00.001-07:00

- Humor is a great societal lubricant.

2008-09-22T13:45:00.001-07:00

- My engine light came on while bringing my daughter home from school. I hate that.

2008-09-22T08:16:00.001-07:00

- Connecting the dots....and the people they represent.

2008-09-22T06:53:00.001-07:00

- Listening to Taras

2008-09-21T20:52:00.001-07:00

- Downloading patches, singing Abba with my wife, and fantasizing about being in Oingo Boingo.

2008-09-21T10:34:00.001-07:00

- Daddy Daughter Day with Kat. I'm in for a day of shopping and sushi.