Archive for December, 2007

Slackware 12 upgrade – Samba

One of the challenges on any Linux upgrade is getting your Samba server to work again. I use Samba to network with my Windows computers. I have to keep a couple Windows machines around, just for quality control testing on website development, and for creating flash.
After the Slackware 12 upgrade, Samba didn’t work. [...]

read more

Bacon

If you love Bacon as much as my sister does (and I know that you don’t – nobody does) you probably don’t need any help deciding when to eat Bacon, you eat it all the time.
For those of us who are only casual Bacon consumers, here is a nice flowchart showing us when the optimum [...]

read more

Music Pick of the Week: Rooney

It’s interesting to me what “Alternative” or “Modern Rock” has become these days. I don’t listen to “Pop” radio much these days, just can’t take the Fergie, Kanye West, or Taylor Swifts of the world. Interestingly the hip hop, R&B and other music types that have taken over the pop charts in the [...]

read more

Why we have Separation of Church and State

There is constantly a huge discussion about the Separation of Church and State here in the US. This discussion resolves around many issues ranging from major items like the removal of state sanctioned prayer by students in public schools, Roe v. Wade and the teaching of evolution in public schools to stupid issues [...]

read more

Fred Thompson Campaign Ad

Maybe I will vote for Fred, if this ad is true…

read more

Broncos Meltdown – EXPLAINED!

If you are a Denver Broncos fan, as I am, you have had a dismal season. The Broncos have been up and down, but mostly down. A fiasco of special teams failures, inadequate defense and tepid offense. All year long the citizens of Colorado have searched for an explaination. Some blame [...]

read more

Music Pick of the Week – West End Girls

Ever since my friend Dave introduced me to the Pet Shop Boys back in college, they have been one of my favorite bands of all time. This would probably surprise some of the people who know me, since they aren’t exactly the kind of redneck music you might think I listen to, but anyone [...]

read more

Coverville plays my request

On December 11th Coverville played one of my requests.
I requested The Strokes cover of Marvin Gaye’s Mercy Mercy Me.
I always feel like such a celebrity when my name gets mentioned on a podcast. W00T!

read more

CAT 5 Patch/Crossover Cable Creation Guide

For years I’ve had to look up a guide for creating a CAT 5 cable every time I build one. Just don’t do it frequently enough, especially if I need a crossover cable.
Here is a link to a very nice
CAT 5 Patch/Crossover Cable Creation Guide
Really one of these posts that is as much for [...]

read more

Lesson of the day – be good or Santa won’t bring presents

This Dad is helping Santa out with that whole good/bad thing by selling his kid’s present on eBay.
Awesome – wish I had some kids of my own so I could do this kind of stuff. Discipline at it’s best.

read more