Jason Bock posted this awhile back – but I thought I’d post it for my subscribers. It’s been hectic with a new kiddo and all kinds of stuff going on so I’m just getting around to posting this now. I have joined … Background info: I recently moved to Minneapolis to explore other…
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Book Review: Be Prepared
Be Prepared – A Practical Handbook For New Dads Being a new dad is sort of like anything else in life that you've never done before. Its confusing, its hard, its fun, its rewarding and well, its just plain hard to figure out. Babies are like computer viruses that always adapt. You have to figure…
Why Windows Task Manager Sucks
It never fails… I’ll boot up, start a program, walk away, log back into my PC and all of a sudden the disk light on my laptop or desktop is lit up like a Christmas tree for the next 10 minutes. The computer is rendered useless until its done “working”. I can’t do anything at…
Restoring a Dell Inspiron 6400 To Factory
Last night I needed to wipe a machine of mine clean – back to factory settings. On the 6400 series there is a D partition that has all of the factory settings. It even has a little utility called "PCRestore.exe" that looks VERY promising. However, if you double click it it will ask if you…
Little Sophia
Normally I try not to post non-technical items here, but this is big enough news to warrant a post in anyone’s personal blog! I’m happy to announce that this last Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008 at 8:07pm, Sophia Felker entered the world at a healthy 7lbs 8ounces. Sophia and mom are doing great. The wife did…
