Those of you that know me may remember that I had a nasty eye infection a couple years ago that left me wearing an eye patch for weeks because my right eye was so sensitive to everything. The side-effects of that infection were the iris actually sticking to the lens (which meant it didn’t dilate [...]

You’ve installed Office 2010, but when you try and activate it you get an error “Please try again later (0x8007000D)” Click on Start, then right-click on Computer and choose Properties. In the next window, click on Device Manager. If this opens an empty window, follow this procedure: Log on to the machine

Another quick notes post. If you have a prgram fail to run with this error, it’s probably a bad entry in the registry. Good news is, it’s easy to find and fix. STANDARD WARNING: Editing the registry can blow things up permanently if you don’t know what you’re doing. Make backups first, then backup yo

Really, reeeaaally useless. So, you’ve screwed the pooch and accidentally sent that email “Reply to ALL” instead of just your one chum, and your snarkiness is going to get you canned. “Wait!” you exclaim, “I’ll use Message Recall!!” You clickety-clickey over to Sent Items, loc

Working as an outsourced IT guy, I’ve seen many different approaches to the idea of the ‘IT Liaison’ position – that poor sap who gets tasked with keeping track of all the little things that are wrong with the computers and coordinating with the IT guy(s). Here are some tips for choosing the right Li

Repair install of Server 2008 Remember the ‘repair install’ option from Server 2003? Well, they renamed it (along with everything else) in Server 2008. Here’s the new method: Boot from OS install disk Select next after making sure the language options are correct. Select Repair option Select CMD CD into re

So, you’ve just bought the expansion drive cage (8 more SFF drives! W00t!) and you’ve got the SAS RAID controller Expansion Card as well. Great! Only one problem – HP forgot to include a crucial bit of information regarding how you wire the damn thing in. Step 1: remove the existing SAS cables from the [..

If you’re not using the SharePoint site in your SBS network, there’s no need to clutter up the desktop with links to the Internal site. Here’s how you can remove this little annoyance: Open the Group Policy Management console and navigate to Group Policy Objects – Windows SBS User Policy. Go to the Detai

So one of our  Partner suppliers requires that a certain number of our staffers be certified in their product line. It’s been a couple years since the last time we took the test, so our certs have expired and we need to re-certify our people. No problem, right? I mean, we all passed the test [...]

It’s been a while – time for a little rant. Portland is known far and wide across the land for their progressive take on public and alternative transportation. Those of you that live or visit here know that the city is quite proud of it’s Pro-Bicycle stance and the things they have done to make [...]

“Deja-Bu” – that feeling you get when you pass someone driving a Subaru identical to the one you are driving yourself.

Here is a phone pic of my computer 3 minutes into the process of installing Internet Explorer 9: Why a phone pic? Because it had to completely shut down everything else, including: Antivirus Firefox Media Monkey All the widgets Logitech software and Windows Explorer. So why it took 6 whole minutes when it wasn’t fight

The time has come where the good ship HS Golightly (AKA “Holly”) must be retired and a replacement brought in. The reasons behind the move are mainly financial – it was a terrible loan rate and the car was actually rated as worth only about $500 more than the cost of some needed repairs (some [...]

As can be expected, Microsoft made a lot of changes in the SBS 2008 / Exchange 2007 combination, and while it has been out for several years now, I have yet to find any articles or HOWTO’s that specifically address the problems of getting ancient, legacy code to reliably send email alerts with the new [...]

So today, Da Wolfe did his civic duty and showed up for Jury duty, and was pissed off inside of 45 seconds. Jury duty is of course served in a courthouse, which is high on the list of places you’ll be subjected to what people say is keeping us safe – the mass-annoyance of everyone [...]

9:30am. Breakfast with the lovely Illyana at Holman’s. (A great little dive, by the way; you should check it out on a day when I’m not going to be there – I like it quiet.) 11:30am. Left the restaurant and called my insurance company – and got the “please call back during business hours”

9:30am. Got up to get breakfast (yay for Lazy!) 10:30am. Some light shopping, got the car washed, stopped at Wendy’s for a quick bite. 1:30pm. Discovered I had missed getting into the bank by 31 minutes. Damn. Continue shopping. 3:00pm. Get home, pull shades off of glasses and notice that the left arm is out [...]

Been busy on a project over at the other blog. Check it out!

This makes me happy. [Judge Emory A.] Pitt wrote: “Those of us who are public officials and are entrusted with the power of the state are ultimately accountable to the public. When we exercise that power in public fora, we should not expect our actions to be shielded from public observation. ‘Sed quis custodiet

Have you ever had an argument – with yourself? And lost? Ahh, the joys of mild schizophrenia. Here I am, already a JOAT (Jack Of All Trades) with enough varied interests to skin a cat, and here I am wanting to start up yet another hobby – and an expensive one, at that. Well, expensive [...]

Got a letter from a lawyer’s office today, which is always a bit freaky. “what the hell did I do?” you think to yourself. It turns out, it was more of what I didn’t do. Apparently, in 2004, I was supposed to have paid $9 in income tax and didn’t. (News to me, I have [...]

We’ve been missing camping since we haven’t been doing SCA stuff this year, so we decided to head out to a regular ol’ campground for a few days to get at least one use out of the tent this year. We ended up choosing Lazy Bend Campground on the Clackamas River because: It was available [...]

What the Hell – Da Roomie did it, I may as well follow along. He told me to use the letter “O”, since I am such an Oingo Boingo fan. 1. If you’d like to play along, reply to this post and I’ll assign you a letter. 2. You then list (and upload or link [...]

To: the jerk down the street who was setting off mortars until the wee hours: Learn how to fucking reload! Honestly, if you had been able to fire those 5 or ten or however-many mortar shots you had in a reasonable succession, I would have been able to wait you out and then fall asleep. [...]

Step 1: Purchase / acquire the Microsoft E-Learning courses #6320 – #6324. Study them carefully, expecting them to contain all of the information required to pass the exam. They are, after all, provided by Microsoft for this very reason. Step 2: Schedule and take the exam. Answer the questions. Miss the questions they

- Or - Where Da Wolfe learns what he is Cast: Me, at 11BigFish – my older brother, 3 years my seniorTrucker – my fatherGloria – his 2nd wifeBrat – her daughter, one year younger than me (and another Gemini)Jock – her younger son, one year older than me (and another Gemini)TheBrain – her o

Okay boys and girls, time to pay attention: the Fundies are doing their damndest to rewrite the schoolbooks that our children will be reading for the next ten years. See this post from February and this newer post for more details, but here’s the gist: The two states that buy the most textbooks are California and [...

Had a bit of a worry today – Pookie and I had been out running around avoiding the bridal shower The WBGF was throwing for a friend of ours, and I figured it was time for an oil change. I pull up to the bay, and right then steam starts pouring out from under the [...]

As a good many of you should already know, MekTek.net has been given the go-ahead to release Mechwarrior4: Mercenaries as a free game (!!) to go with the enhancements that they have cooked up over the years. All of this is in preparation for the upcoming reboot of the Mechwarrior franchise, which looks to be [...]

Picked up a new app called FxCamera for my G1, thought I’d try some of the effects. Here’s fisheye: