With a swish and flick of my wand, and an incantation of “Tivous Expandiarmus!”, our TiVo’s capacity increased from 35 hours to over 120 hours of recording space.
OK, it wasn’t quite that simple. But, about three and a half hours after I cracked open my Hughes DirecTiVo box, I had finished the job. This was [...]
I’ve been bitten by the Blizzard bug again. This time it’s the new World of Warcraft saga, a huge four-CD massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG for short. The predecessor, Warcraft III, never gelled with me, mainly due to its complexity and less-than-interesting playing, but WoW is a fun, engaging, and addictive timewaster.
Installation is [...]
My teen daughter has been complaining lately that I’m mad at her all the time for just about anything, and that it’s getting both annoying and boring to her. She claims to listen to me, but cites that she has absolutely no idea why I am mad at her.
The sad thing is that she knows [...]
I think the migration to version 2.63 of my Movable Type weblog management system from version 2.21 is now complete (for richard’s ramblings, at least). Whew! Several upgrade steps were skipped and I went directly from the old version to the new one, skipping versions 2.5, 2.51, 2.6, 2.61, and 2.62.
I’m glad I made the [...]
I completed another minor life goal today: after eight and a half hours, I completed a 13-mile trek through rugged wilderness environment, rock-jumping swollen winter streams, sustaining minor injuries, seriously wondering whether or not I would return that evening, all in the combined names of geocaching and the memory of a good friend.
Today would have [...]
My family busied themselves in the living room, knowing that the two-hour-long task I was about to undertake would require my full and total concentration. I sat nervously at my keyboard, anxiously awaiting an instant message from a stranger I had never met or even spoken with. For the third time, I needlessly rechecked my [...]
Yesterday, I managed to knock one of my life goals off my list: I walked the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge.
It was probably one of the simplest goals on the list, but it was a good beginning, a symbol of the eventual completion of many more. It is almost incredible that I had [...]
My potential race partner in the Amazing Race just picked up my half of everything needed for the application. It’s been a long journey in the making and I’m glad it’s over.
