Last night I installed a couple more new things to the laptop. I installed the Greasemonkey Firefox extension, and grabbed a couple of scripts from the wiki. I’m not going to be getting into hard core changing of sites or ad-blocking, I’m still not sure how I feel about that, but I saw where a…
As cool as Gmail is, there are some things that leave me frustrated with it. Here’s a short list of things I’d really like to see: – Give me an option to export contacts! Or, what would be even nicer, let me sync my Outlook contacts with Gmail contacts. Having started on Gmail before it…
Given the date, I’m a little skeptical of everything I’m reading today. After reading about Kevin leaving In the Trenches I am on high alert for any kind of April Fool’s joke. But many people seem to think that Gmail is, in fact, upping the email storage. That’s cool with me. Guess I really didn’t…
Random updates on previous posts: The tape drive from Friday turned out to be fine. Had a little scare with static electricity when I went to unplug the drive and plug it back in, but aside from suddenly shutting down our only server with no notice late Friday afternoon, everything was back to normal. The…
Not a busy weekend, actually kind of relaxing, but I did manage to get some techie stuff done: A few pictures added to the Deep South Gallery from Alexandria last week. Obviously, since we weren’t there on vacation, picture taking was low on the priority list. Rather than try and make a gallery out of…
I’ve been doing this blog for a few years now, and it’s afforded me many opportunities to meet new and interesting people who share similar interests. I’ve exchanged ideas and emails with a large variety of people, from people who just happen share my last name, to people who might be considered big-wigs of the…