Author: jason
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300% More Super Mario Bros. Influence
Post headers, footers, and the sidebar headers now have nifty Super Mario Bros. flavor courtesy of the Super Modena Bros. free Icon Delivery from Icon Buffet. I think they perk up the design nicely. The icons are hooked up as CSS background images. This allows them to be change easily from the external style sheet…
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Flipped the Switch…
A while back on my former pivot blog, I said I was migrating to wordpress. After that, I pretty much gave up on the old site. I was planning on doing a fancy schmancy site overhaul to coincide with the blog engine cut over, but I can never seem to find the time to work…
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 25)
Yesterday, I called my local repair shop, United Radio, per my instructions from Best Buy. Of course, they hadn’t gotten anything from Best Buy on the matter yet. Nothing seems to surprise me any more. I thanked them for there time and said I’ll go haggle Best Buy some more. On a whim, I gave…
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Quickie: New Favicon!
You may have noticed that I’m finally getting around to tweaking the look and feel. I stumbled on some nice Super Mario Bros. themed icons in my Icon Buffet Free Delivery a while back. The idea is kinda neat, they give you starter sets of icons free to get the word out. You can then…
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Landmark Theater Ghost Hunt 2006
Last night, Sandy and I headed out to the Landmark Theater for the 2006 Ghost Hunt. Its basically just a spook themed fund raiser. The CNY Ghost Hunters crew was out in full force. Not quite what I expected. I figured that there’d be a lot of sit down about Landmark history and its known…
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 24)
As you’ve probably guessed by now, nobody called me back after that last check in. So, I figured it was time to try to talk to someone in person. Last night, I checked in with my local Best Buy (the actual location where I purchased the TV.) I explained the situation… His first reply was…
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 23)
Last time I talked to Best Buy Service, they said some one will call me back in 5-7 business days. I wasn’t all that surprised that after 7 days elapsing, that I still didn’t hear anything from them. So, I figured it was time to check in again. Dialed ’em up, waited five minutes for…
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FC5: A little progress
Quick update today. Got printing to work. After some googling around, I found lots of advice that the gnome printer config utility was pretty flaky, I blew away my existing CUPS config (generated by the gnome utility) and ran the CUPS config utility (localhost:631 in the browser) straight up. A minute later it spit out…
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 22)
This time its not Time Warner, I promise… Recently my Sony TV (32″ HD) cashed itself in. When you hit the power button, all you get is a blinking red light. What does the manual say about this condition? If when you power on the TV, have no picture, and the status light blinks red……
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Project FC5 Update: 0 for 2
Last night, I had two tasks for my FC5 project: Get a Parallels VM machine for Windows XP rolling.Seemed to kick off OK after having to remember how to use Parallels’ VM setup utility. A false start or two later, and the XP installed seemed to start fine. It did all the normal setup stuff,…