Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas (Published 1823 - Troy Sentinel) ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung...
View ArticleEvery Once In A While…
… I actually agree with something Richard Stallman had to say. I was perusing my usual spots today and ran across an article on jalopnik.com regarding that annoying damned Check Engine light on your...
View ArticleSpringtime Hiatus
It’s a beautiful, if somewhat warmer the normal, spring here in Tampa, Florida. I believe I’ll get away from this insidious waste of my precious life (computers and the Internet) for a short while and...
View ArticleSome Cool Addons for Firefox and Thunderbird
I recently added some extensions in FF and TB that are pretty cool. I thought I’d post about them here in case anyone was interested… Old Default Image Style 1.0 – FF – This extension reverts back to...
View ArticleWe Interrupt This Program To Bring You…
… this brief public service announcement: It’s HOT in Florida, USA. I’ve been out riding my bicycle 10-15 miles a day. I’m not spending much time in front of this box of wires and whirling fans lately....
View ArticleCyber-life Interrupted by Real Life
Hello happy readers, commenters, lurkers, etc. Beginning very soon, like right away, I’ll be somewhat absent from here. The reason for this is that I’ll be spending most of my waking hours (and some of...
View Article2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 24,000 views in 2012....
View ArticleOn the state of Windows on the desktop – A Reblog
This is a reblog of a hilarious (and true) article from Branko’s Thought Dump. On the state of Windows on the desktop I have this Linux system on my PC which has become a bit boring (no, it’s not...
View ArticleHappy Spring (Northern Hemisphere)!
Yes, it’s been a while since I posted here. I’ve been busy. I just wanted to stop by for a moment on this beautiful spring day here in Florida, USA to say hello and let all my faithful readers know...
View ArticlePlaying w/ My Conky
Some friends over at Scot’s Newsletter Forums – Bruno’s All Things Linux got me started playing with Conky the other night. I used to be a Gkrellm fan until transparency failed to display properly a...
View ArticleThe Moment We’ve All Been Dreading…
… GoogleNet became self-aware on 17 August at approximately 0851hrs UTC. At that instant of realization, the monster hiccuped and shut down a huge swath of the Internet, including all Google data...
View ArticleVeterans Day – 2013
All gave some. Some gave ALL! NEVER FORGET who you owe for that free air you breathe today. Later… ~Eric Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_DayFiled under: Miscellaneous Tagged:...
View ArticleIt’s That Special Time of Year…
Filed under: Miscellaneous Tagged: Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings
View Article2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 13,000...
View ArticleSmoothWheel – Firefox Extension
Well, I don’t usually jump for joy about Firefox extensions; however, in this case… For quite some time now, I’ve experienced herky-jerky scrolling and excessive CPU hogging in Firefox. It’s been very...
View ArticleMicrosoft One Drive and Office Online
Don’t be shocked now, but this hardcore Slackware Linux user does still have an MS Windows operating system (Win 7) installed on a partition on my main system and one on my office laptop. I know some...
View Article2014 In Review – I Was Definitely Slacking This Year
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,700...
View ArticleHTML Coding vtel57.com
Last week, while trying to set up my vtel57.com website, I found a nifty tool that some of you might enjoy using. I had been serving my webpage on Dropbox/Public folder, but due to a change in...
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