Now that my system is running XP Pro (the HP came with XP Home), I no longer have the HP installed apps , and the first one I want back is the DVD playback software (even Windows Media Player will not play DVDs without it). I made a recovery CD from the store’s display model last night. I am looking Continue Reading

Finally, after a week of struggling with various roadblocks, last night I succeeded (sort of) in setting up my new computer with XP Pro. I bought an HP Pavilion a530n, which has an Athlon 64 3200+ (2ghz), 512 GB RAM (soon to be upgraded, when convenient), 200 gb hard drive, DVD Writer, and NVidia GeForce AGP 8X with 128Mb DDR Continue Reading

Bought a new PC, a Pavilion a530n (Athlon 64 3200) which came with XP Home, DVDWriter, 200 gb hard drive, 512mb RAM. The system would not let me do the XP Pro upgrade that previously (on other PCs) will run from within XP Home. This time, a blue screen occurs each time the upgrade process does its initial file copy Continue Reading

I haven’t been blogging much. I’ve been working on my txes, interviewing for a job, going to second interviews, and then expecting an offer. The offer came this past week, and I am starting tomorrow. I’m not going to name the place, only say that it is in Web development, and in Nashville. I am excited about it, and also Continue Reading

Recently, a new wave of spam has hit, using my own email address as the sender, but with a different Name as the Recipient in the Outlook Inbox. Does anyone know how I could use Outlook to filter these out, when I already have the “SafeLists Only” option turned on, and my safe senderslist has a only a few addresses Continue Reading

Well, I thought I’d try the Toshiba PDA support, to see if there’s any news at all about Windows PocketPC upgrades…and the answer: Nada. When I told the support person that I know of nobody that owns an e740 that will EVER buy a Toshiba product again, and that I will never consider Toshiba for any new Pocket PC (which Continue Reading

I found an “unlisted” free wifi access spot that was, as far as I could tell, not mentioned among several listings when I did a search on Free WiFi Atlanta. It is in The Mall at Peachtree Station, Atlanta Bread Company. My Dad, 2 brothers, and I were staying at the Marriott Marquis, which is conected by walkway to the Continue Reading

I have a second interview with a Church related organization on the 16th of this month. I had a phone interview with them about 4 weeks ago, and I had given that possibility up for dead after a couple weeks went by. The email I received said I was a “possible match”, so we’ll see. I jotted down in my Continue Reading

Funny thing just happened (I guess it’s funny if you’re geeky enough to have struggled with and used this feature)……I noticed that a link I had pointing to Chris hammond’s post about his new project cDotText, registered a trackback on his blog, which is a dottext blog. I thought, “Hey, why does HIS blog successfully register trackbacks and mine doesn’t. Continue Reading

Chris Hammond has done some work on someting called cDotText which he talks about here

In my ongoing Web work, the latest project is hosted on a service that offers PHP, so since I am a DW MX 2004 user, and have already added CF to my ASP experience, why not try my hand at PHP/MySQL, in case something ion this project would make it advantagous to know some PHP data binding? I am typing Continue Reading

Been doing quite a bit of Flash development lately. I just published a site for a local Church leader, using mostly Flash for navigation and for content. I would have already connected all the content via External files or data, but thus far, Flash seems to be quirky or particular in the way that one uses the Dynamic Text feature Continue Reading

The effects rendering and “Test Movie” problem I wrote about on Saturday turned out to be indeed about those fonts. When I replaced the fonts used by the imported PDF stuff with something on the font list, the problem ceased. Now I am lookiing around to find something on the Progress Bar Component. I made a copy of my latest Continue Reading