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Interesting Times — Ivan, part 2

September 15, 2004 By Leave a Comment

It looks like Baton Rouge is going to be spared everything but a little rain and some 30-40 mph wind. Fantastic. Mobile looks like it has a big target sign painted on it. Hope the pumps are good in the tunnel. The folks in south Mississippi, south Alabama and western Florida are in for a [...]

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Serendipity — upgrade

September 14, 2004 By Leave a Comment

Just finished the upgrade to version 0.7beta2. There were a number of changes to the mysql database tables, which caused some issues temporarily. All finally resolved. The issue was with the Serendipity user of the MySQL database. I had changed its privileges, but the changes weren’t showing. I needed to do a reload of the [...]

Filed Under: Computers - Web Design

RK Drum roasting — session 2

September 13, 2004 By Leave a Comment

Did my second and third batches yesterday. I was able to control them much better with better results. In addition to the New Braunfels thermometer mounted to the grill, I used my Digital Thermometer with thermocouple ($29.90 at Sweet Maria’s). This is the one imported by Circuit Specialists, from whom I bought mine along with [...]

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Build Your Own Computer day

September 12, 2004 By Leave a Comment

Boy, what a day. We had 10 people building their own computers and probably 8 or 9 assisting. Some of the people building their computers were advanced users and just needed some oversight. Others needed a lot of help.

Filed Under: Computers - User Groups

PC Tuneup organizational meeting

September 11, 2004 By Leave a Comment

We had a great turnout for the PC Tuneup organizational meeting. We’re trying to train some more folks to do the “technician” work and to handle the front-end processing. Our intent is to standardize what’s done and to get it done more smoothly.

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Gulf snapper fishing trip

September 9, 2004 By Leave a Comment

I went on a charter boat fishing trip on Wednesday, sponsored by my broker. Boy! Was that fun! We went to Port Fouchon on Tuesday to Steve Tomeny’s Charters (800-259-8452), and slept in one of his “cabins”. There are four of these, and each has a bunk room that sleeps 20 and a similar-sized room [...]

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RK Drum roasting — setup & 1st roast

September 6, 2004 By Leave a Comment

A couple months ago, I won a contest on the Sweet Maria’s mailing list, where Ron Kyle was offering one of his fantastic stainless steel drums for roasting coffee. You couple this with the gas grill and rotisserie of your choice. For various reasons, I delayed purchasing a second gas grill to do this project. [...]

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My Clickers’ volunteer schedule for September

September 5, 2004 By Leave a Comment

Saturday, Sept. 4th<br /> Windows XP Special Interest Group meeting — Larry Braud and I are the co-leaders of this SIG. Since we had an open house in August and about 150 new members, we did a number of basics in this session. Lots of Q&A, too. About 1/3 of the 20 people there were [...]

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The Ceiling Fan

September 5, 2004 By Leave a Comment

Last Friday, I put up an expensive ceiling fan. Well, not that expensive for the fan — a $90 Hunter, 52 inch, ceiling-hugger design with 5 blades — that I bought at Home Depot. The expense was in the hanging part. When I pulled down the old fan in my Den, I found that that [...]

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