There are a whole bunch of Microsoft Windows Updates that have been released yesterday and today - and at least one of them is crashing my machine. It appears that I'm not alone, as there are already some posts on the Windows Update site about other people with the same symptoms I'm seeing. They believe they have narrowed down which update is the ( Read more... )

The external hard drive that I had been using to do backups crashed.  So I went out and got a larger and faster unit.  It's currently doing the initial backup (which I won't touch).  I'll then make two more backups and rotate incrementing them.

The importance of doing all this was underlined when I tried to install the latest updates for Windows ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to 
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At the beginning I was quite taken by HEROES.  My enthusiasm started dropping in the second half of the season, enough so that I left the last 5 episodes unwatched until just recently.  Those last episodes didn't do anything to change my opinion ( Read more... )

A week ago I came down with bronchial spasms. I'm now taking bronchodilators, anti-inflammatories and antihistamines. While this has cut down on the severity of things, I'm still having coughing fits. That not only means I'm not fit to sing, I'm also not fit to sit in the audience (at concerts or circles or panels or pretty much anything else at ( Read more... )

Overall BayCon went well for me.  The new heavier-dose combination of anti-inflammatory supplements I've been taking recently has made a big improvement in how much guitar work I can do before having to say "That's enough for now".  So a big Thank You to Fish Oil, MSM, Glucosamine, Hyaluronic Acid, Co-Enzyme Q-10 and so on.  A month ago I had  ( Read more... )

At 4:10 PM PDT I felt a small earthquake. It felt like a wave-like motion rather than a sharp jolt. It turns out that there was a 3.4 quake 9 miles east of San Jose's City Hall (and roughly 4 miles deep) at that time. I live something like 5 miles south of City Hall, so it was pretty close. No damage, nothing fell or swayed, just some creaking ( Read more... )

For those who may have missed episodes, SciFi is running the entire 1st season up to date (i.e. everything but the season ender) on Saturday starting at 9 AM (Pacific Time). Check your local schedules....

I was over at
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Not a huge surprise since I spent the first 5 years as well as the last 25 years of my life in this area, but in other tests I have also come is as a different "neutral" accent.

What American accent do you have?
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