Archive for June, 2004
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
I took a leap of faith and installed the new Service Pack 2 for Windows XP Pro. No GUI change at all, save for a new Wireless Networks icon. No instability. One minor bug - one of the XP PowerToys that I installed (Image Resizer) doesn't work now, but I'll ...
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Sunday, June 27th, 2004
Codi, Laura, Josh and I went to the Columbia River Gorge today to check out the waterfalls, go hiking, swimming, etc. Latourelle falls was very nice, although the water was cold. I dislocated my shoulder a little bit when I slipped on some algae-covered rocks, but the view was ...
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Friday, June 25th, 2004
MSNBC - $60 million to say 'I do'
What an idiot! Exactly how irresponsible and stupid can one man actually be with his money? I'd be mortified to have my picture or my name listed in connection with something so asinine and absurd. The caption should have said ...
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Thursday, June 17th, 2004
Here's a little video clip from a Support the Troops rally Codi and I went to some time ago. I like all the American flags together! (Quicktime 10.3MB)
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
Codi and I went to the Portland Rose Gardens again, this time with my little sister Laura and her boyfriend, Josh. The roses were in full bloom, though unfortunately a lot of them were past their apex and on the way back down. They were beautiful nonetheless. ...
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Saturday, June 12th, 2004
I recently put together a new desktop computer. I used an Antec Aria case, an MSI motherboard, 1GB DDR RAM, 64-bit AMD 3000+ processor, 8x DVD+-RW, and a 250GB SATA drive. The MSI mobo has some bugs running USB 2.0 on the front of the case, so I'm ...
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Saturday, June 12th, 2004
Here are three really gorgeous pictures taken by my little sister, Laura. I cropped them to dump the 3x2 frame size and they ended up looking better than expected. My favorite is the one with the Rocky Mountains in the background and the cattle or bison grazing in ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2004
Well, well! So AudioBlogger works! I think this is a pretty neat service - blogging from the road without even having to type anything. Of course, I think this is a service best used by people who have good phone voices, but I suppose there are no ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2004
Today I got a new GMAIL account by Google. An entire gigabyte of storage for emails? Frankly, I don't think I've received that much email in the last few years, but hey - it's a lot better than the measly 2MB offered by buggy, spam-plagued hotmail.com and others!!
One cool thing ...
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