For whatever reason, my live journal did not endure. Maybe it was too general to hold my focus and interest. I started a more specialized blog about birding in my neighborhood here. So far it has been lots of fun!

I've had an Airport Express for two or three weeks now and overall I've really enjoyed it.  It exists as a client of my existing 802.11b wireless network and I am only using it for music streaming.  Setup was relatively easy, but I had to use the Airport "Utility" app instead of the "Assistant" app.  This was because the "Assistant" app needs an ( Read more... )

One of the many things I love about living in a house is that now I have enough space to get all my books out of boxes and onto shelves. Some of them have been in boxes for years. Having easy access to them again is wonderful.

I was perusing my books yesterday and ran across one I forgot I owned, a trade paperback comic called Oktane. Now I ( Read more... )

Back in February I bought my first house which I really love. Up until now I've lived in small apartments so I've never put together a serious home entertainment system even though I've always been interested in such things ( Read more... )

Wow, this was an encouraging article to find. A protozoa has been found in fire ant colonies that is limiting their numbers, to the advantage of just about all native wildlife.  A similar protozoa is a natural predator of fire ants in South America.  The protozoa found here may or may not be the same species.  And no one knows how it got here yet ( Read more... )

A friend at work just sent me a link to MediaWiki, which looks pretty darn interesting.  I have played around with TWiki and while I love some of its features (as well as the whole wiki-wiki-web idea in general), TWiki was just a pain to deal with and didn't have some basic security features I really wanted.  I'll be investigating MediaWiki very ( Read more... )

This MacWorld blog is the best source of information about the Airport Express I've found. It's a neat little box. In addition to the music functionality, it is also a portable wi-fi base station, range extender, print server, and wi-fi bridge.

I decided to try out keeping a web log, mostly as a way to communicate issues and technologies to my friends that I consider nifty or otherwise remarkable. I tried to start a wiki web in the past but I think the more structured Live Journal approach might be more appropriate and more accessible. Plus it looked like fun ( Read more... )