The coldest winter I ever spent
Results for backup
These are from when I was working as a QA (quality assurance) engineer around 2000 at Wavexpress. The most important checks are the most basic. Our company created a big program for signing up for our beta program via a telephone number. I was not on this project and it was most certainly “not my […]
A friend asked me some advice on what books to get for school. Here is my school book advice: I have thought a lot about books and tried various things. Here’s what I do these days. I buy all the required reading at the very beginning of the semester from Amazon. I figure that I […]
A fellow student asked about buying textbooks then selling them on Amazon. Here’s what I had to say in response I buy all the required reading at the very beginning of the semester from Amazon. I figure that I can sell it back on Amazon if I want to keep it and only lose a […]
Short form: I changed from the excellent Tomato firmware on my Linksys WRT54GL to Toastman Tomato in order to get IP based bandwidth monitoring. It works great! Long form: I’ve been using the excellent Tomato firmware on my Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 router since 2009. It was easy to install and has worked flawlessly. My […]
Here’s a boring geeky list of what makes Lee.org run. Ajax Edit Comments by The PluginBuddy Team. Some of my commenters use this all the time. Great. Akismet by Automattic. Since tweaking NoSpamNX perfectly, this is rarely needed. But I like having this as backup Artiss Plugins List by David Artiss. How I made this […]
I just had a hard drive go bad on me so I had to buy a new drive and reinstall Windows. Here’s the software I put back on my computer immediately, the essential software that makes Windows XP useable for me: WizMouse – lets you scroll a window without you having to give it focus. […]
The Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum Mouse-over this panorama! (yes, I took this with my phone and stitched it together) [photonav url=’http://lee.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/udvar-hazy.jpg’ popup=colorbox container_height=450] Or look at the whole image: A 2 hour long docent tour flew by in just a few moments in this phenomenal hall. ————————————————– Infinity Nets Yellow by Yayoi Kusama. […]
I just got back from a trip to Washington DC to see a long time friend Maura. * Meeting at the airport… it’s always good to see old friends! * Waffles (from the super-snazzy Chef’s Choice WafflePro Express waffle maker I got Maura for Christmas) * Fun * A fine and fun (and free) tour […]
My WordPress blog had been hacked. It displayed ads for stupid things in the far lower right corner of some blog pages. It looks like it displayed ads on just 1 in 10 of my pages, especially “Category” pages. You might want to take a peek on your own WordPress blog to make sure it […]
The hard drive on Charlotte’s computer died this week. She had barely turned the computer on in a year so it was quite a surprise. Here’s what happened: Last week I copied a pile of pictures to the computer I ran Windows Update during a shutdown on it. It ran for quite a while with […]