Month: May 2008

…if only the rest of the day could be wordless.

The past few days have been busy: The Home School Legal Defense Fund got involved. The American Family Association got involved. Subway’s partner in the contest, Scholastic, posted an apology of sorts on multiple homeschool sites, but nothing yet from their site itself. So pardon my skepticism. The alleged apology sites “Our intention was never…

Subway is running a contest called Fresh Fit for Kids. But they made a BIG mistake. Two, actually. The first, in the rules (emphasis mine):2. ELIGIBILITY. Contest is open only to legal residents of the United States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools…

Ok, maybe not exactly…but still. VM running XP, and running it very well, and very fast. And yes, that IS my desktop…that background is cool–if looked at from the side, without knowing about the background, looks like my screen is cracked!

Phoenix has successfully landed, without losing comm link to earth. And switched to 32k link, which is pretty amazing when you consider that it wasn’t all that long ago people connected to the Internet with 56k modems. 32k link to earth and back…when is Comcast expanding out there? Or even DSL? T-1? 😉

The Phoenix probe is set to land in the arctic area of Mars in about 15 minutes. It’s mission is to dig and analyze soil, or more specifically, to analyze the water trapper below the soil. More details at NASA. And while more than half of the world’s attempt to land at Mars have failed,…

Sammy and I just got back from seeing Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. It was a good movie, but different from the first. And that’s not necessarily a good thing. The movie begins with Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy transported back to Narnia after having been gone for a year…which in Narnia time was 1300…

This has got to be one of the coolest conceptual-art ideas ever…not to mention technology uses. New York and London are connected REAL-TIME, without the use of video-conferencing, although I’m sure Cisco is still involved somehow.

I’ve received a sample bottle of Gloves in a Bottle (unsolicited, even, though I was forewarned–and the sample is a full-size 8fl oz bottle). Will begin testing and reviewing over the long weekend.

After some initial difficulties getting Windows Server 2008 set up in Virtualbox OSE, mainly with drivers for the AMD PCNet NIC is emulates, I took some more time to look around. And what I found is not only functional, but performance is amazing. The answer lies in KVM. Nope, not that kind of KVM, but…