Pray for a Cure

•September 16, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Normally I deal in the sarcastic and silly, but today I found something that truly inspired me. Here is a link to a story on some recent research for a breast cancer vaccine.  I can only hope that this is the silver bullet I have been waiting to see. This is for you mom.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7613253.stm

Hard Drive Meltdown

•May 20, 2008 • 1 Comment

This sucks. My external hard drive failed yesterday. Well I think it was the power supply for the enclosure and not the drive itself. Of course this is just a backup of old files or so I thought. I broke out into a cold sweat when I realized that 4 + years worth of family photos resided on this drive. The originals sit on a hard drive that a pulled out of an old machine before I trashed it. So now I have two hard drives sitting on a desk waiting to be rescued. I really hope it was just the power supply on that enclosure. Another one is on the way to rescue me. At least I had the best shots developed. …To be continued…

Can I Be Only Semi-Social With That Picture?

•May 11, 2008 • Leave a Comment

So here is my latest online dilemma. I want to use either Flickr or Picasa to share photos. So where is the dilemma you ask? Well, I draw a fine line between public and personal. I am perfectly willing to share pictures that don’t contain my family and friends with anyone. The others, I like to keep for myself and share with a select few. The problem is that I can’t figure out how to do this. It seems like a simple task particularly now that WiFi enabled digital picture frames are becoming more prevalent. So the question for everyone on the Internets is how do I get my Dad a cool new frame and subscribe him to my RSS without sharing to the whole word?

Web 2.?

•March 4, 2008 • 1 Comment

It has come to my attention that technology is passing me by. If you’re reading this, you must be thinking it’s a blog, of course he gets it. The truth is that I don’t. Online social networking is bizarre. Take my Facebook page for example. I signed up only because a co-worker wanted me to see the Wal-Mart page. That is silly in and of itself, but it snowballs from there. I get an invitation from a guy I went to high school with a long time ago. We knew each other in passing, but hardly friends. Yet he wants to friend me online. I didn’t want to be the anti-social social networker so I accepted. Who knows, maybe we’ll have something in common this time around.