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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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……

  • 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,…