Google Buzz : Randomly Connecting Strangers Since Last Week™

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

I’m not sure why Google released “buzz” with a name far too similar to a similar product from Yahoo! without bothering to think it through a little better than they did. “Half Baked” is about the nicest way I can think of to describe it. Usually when Google releases a product that is far [...]

Voting Bookmarklets for The Gutter™ Group on Flickr

Friday, July 31st, 2009

There were blatantly stolen from whomever wrote the DMU2 bookmarklets I use. Use them to vote Keep or Ditch on photos in The Gutter™ on Flickr. Just drag them to a spot on your browser’s toolbar, visit an image in the pool, leave a remark, then click the appropriate link. The bookmarklet [...]

Nikon Camera Control Pro 2.5 Works on Windows 7

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I just installed Nikon Camera Control Pro 2 on an HP Mini 1000 running Windows 7 RC (installed via “run as administrator”) and it appeared to install but did not recognize my Nikon D200 when I plugged it in.
So I downloaded and installed Camera Control version 2.5 (again via “run as administrator”) and [...]

at&t USBConnect Mercury 3G Modem Works in Windows 7

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

at&t’s Mercury USB 3G Modem will not work on Windows 7 RC1 using the software that installs from the USB drive but after the installation, you can hit Windows Update and there will be 2 Sierra Wireless driver updates that will solve the problem. After installing those and rebooting, I was able to use [...]

Installing Windows 7 RC1 on HP Mini 1000 (1030NR)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

There are plenty of places that will tell you how to install Windows 7 on an HP Mini 1000 using a bootable USB or DVD drive but I didn’t have either and ran into a few problems because of this. Here is how I managed to get Windows 7 installed on my 16GB drive:
I [...]

Testing the WordPress iPhone App

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

I think there is a problem with the categories on my site. Not sure what is going on, I thought I had them working last night.
I had to upgrade my wordpress installation and it mangled my categories, lost their titles. I added them back but I guess there are still problems. When I click “categories” [...]

Stop This Xbox Live Video Marketplace Train Wreck, I Want To Get Off!

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

If you haven’t tried the new Xbox Live Video Marketplace, DON’T!

Testing BlogMailr

Friday, November 17th, 2006

I have no clue if this will work, but there are only 4 ways to find out.
Attempt #1…
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle

My XBox Live Gamertag

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

My XBox Live gamertag is sirshannon, of course…

Every Wednesday is 52WAY Day

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Some call it Hump Day; I call it 52WAY Day because I have to do SOMETHING each week.  This week, we finally have a logo so we revamped the site.   I considered “fixing” the older pages but that would destroy some of the quaint historical value they have.
And it would be too much like work.
Logo [...]