Found a contest for all you Twitterererers out there.. There is a contest going on over at Coppyblogger.com.. Can you tell a story in exactly 140 characters? That's the idea behind the first ever @copyblogger Twitter writing contest. It should be a great exercise and a lot of fun. Being constrained to exactly 140 characters will spark your creative juices and force you to focus stringently on word choice, sentence structure, and even punctuation. So, twitter up your story and go … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2008
Firefox RC1 released
FireFox 3 Release Candidate 1 FireFox 3 has been released for testing purposes only. There is a high probability that any "Addon" you have installed will be incompatible with this new browser so, keep that in mind if you choose to download and install. Here's what Mozilla has to say about this latest release: Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 33 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than … [Read more...]
Windows XP SP 3
This will be somewhat of an anti-climatic follow-up for most of you guys... After installing Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, I have experienced absolutely no ill side-effects. This is a completely different experience from the release of Service Pack 2.. Whew!! I can say that beyond the download (approx 70meg for me) being a little slow, that was the fault of my internet connection, this has gone without a hitch. In fact, I don't know if this was the intension or not but, my XP machine … [Read more...]
The Toshiba A305-S6843 Laptop
The Toshiba A305-S6843 Laptop Recently I decided it was time to replace my laptop. My old Laptop was a Toshiba 4300 series. The laptop came originally installed with Windows 98SE, 800mhz PIII processor, 16 gig hard drive, DVD rom, 128 meg RAM. When I got this laptop originally it was "The stuff" so to speak. When Windows XP was released I upgraded the OS to Win XP Pro. Over the years, I maxed out the RAM (384meg) and swapped the 16 gig harddrive to an 80gig. And now this machine was "the … [Read more...]
Windows XP SP 3
I heard from geekhat over on twitter that Service pack three for Windows XP was in his Updates this morning... So I checked my Windows XP machine and .... BEHOLD Service pack three is here! I'm downloading it now. I'll update again after the installation is complete. … [Read more...]
Knoxville Wind Symphony Concert
I know this is late notice an all but, if you are in the Knoxville Area tonight (May 5, 2008 - Cinco de Mayo) then stop by the Historic Tennessee Theatre downtown and check out the Season finale of the Knoxville Wind Symphony. This concert, titled "Cycloni Cinco", should prove to be a fun and exiting concert. The program will include: Sonoran Desert Holiday by Ron Nelson La Fiesta Mexicana by H. Owen Reed The Picadore by John Philip Sousa Adagio Para Orquestra de Instrumentos de Viento by … [Read more...]
New Pictures
Well.. I'm back in the office. It's a beautiful day here so and I got side-tracked. Got the old Digital camera out and took a few pics in an ever forward quest to learn to take a good photo. There's only a few but, you can view them by clicking the image below: Edit: ::: Images lost in Transfer - Sorry, I will add them back when I find them. ::: :-( … [Read more...]