CBS News | ID Day For Telemarketers | January 29, 2004 07:01:42 It is about time! Getting a handle on the reins of the telemarketers has been a long, slow, and painful process. This will certainly help. We signed up for the national do-not-call list when it first came out and also sent out a LOT of letters to the major telemarketing firms as suggested at Junkbusters.com. Following the steps on this web page to the letter eliminated our junk calls. We get one or two renegade calls a month now where we used to get half a dozen a day right at dinner time.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Google Search: south carolina ice storm
Google Search: south carolina ice storm Power is rapidly being restored after the ice storm swept through the Carolinas and Virginia. Here is the result of a Google News search on the topic. Google News and its search capability is a very powerful tool for finding the latest news on a topic. Just go to http://news.google.com/ and enter your search in the usual place. Very cool!
The Sun News | 01/27/2004 | Frozen Carolinas
The Sun News | 01/27/2004 | Frozen CarolinasThis is the latest on the serious ice storm that hit South Carolina hard. Ironic that the news item was found in a Kansas online newspaper, The Sun News. To quote the article, "In South Carolina, the frozen precipitation marked one of the worst weather events so far this winter.."
Monday, January 26, 2004
It is 80F here today and when I was taking the picture the tree over my
head was filled with parrots. Now, I said to myself, "How cool is
this?" "Parrots in the trees, a warm day, the wind blowing the palm
trees." ....but best of all, having paid my dues over the last 40 years,
I did not have to go to work today either.
Friday, January 23, 2004
Bob Keeshan, Who Played Captain Kangaroo on TV, Is Dead at 76
Bob Keeshan gently entertained and educated generations of children as television's Captain Kangaroo.
Bob Keeshan gently entertained and educated generations of children as television's Captain Kangaroo.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Satellite Images
Satellite ImagesNeat site that displays new satellite images for the earth. It even has an RSS feed so you can see when new ones appear.
MOA_SEARCH
MOA_SEARCHThis is just too neat. Search the Cornell University Making of American online library of journals and books from around 1815 to 1926. You can narrow the time period and select books, journals or both. Very cool.
Jeremy Zawodny's blog: Cleaning LCD Screens?
Ok, finally found a definitive answer on how to clean those LCD screens. This is a a link to Jeremy Zawodny's blog: Cleaning LCD Screens?
Monday, January 12, 2004
Computer Repairs
Well, me old trusty computer bit the dust while we were away. Odd,
because I left it powered down and unplugged from everything. I tried
everything, reseating all of the cards, new power supply, but none of
those brought it to life. My fans would come on but it would not
boot. I could not even get into the BIOS so I suspected the mobo which
was confirmed at my local computer shop. I bought a new motherboard and
in the process upgraded my CPU to an AMD XP2700. Everything seems to be
running just fine. Windows XP did not hickup at all putting in the new
hardware but we made sure to use another Gigabyte motherboard with a Via
chip on since that is what the old one used.
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing
your enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
because I left it powered down and unplugged from everything. I tried
everything, reseating all of the cards, new power supply, but none of
those brought it to life. My fans would come on but it would not
boot. I could not even get into the BIOS so I suspected the mobo which
was confirmed at my local computer shop. I bought a new motherboard and
in the process upgraded my CPU to an AMD XP2700. Everything seems to be
running just fine. Windows XP did not hickup at all putting in the new
hardware but we made sure to use another Gigabyte motherboard with a Via
chip on since that is what the old one used.
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing
your enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Outer Banks Art Horses
Our collection of photos of the Outer Banks Art Horses can be found at OBX Horses
Saturday, January 03, 2004
Home again.
The mothership has landed at home base. Total miles for the Kitty Hawk trip going and coming was right at 2,000. It is good to be home but I am in the process of fixing things that have felt neglected while we were gone and decided to play sick. The only one I have not been able to fix yet is my main computer. I think the power supply may be partially bad on it but we will figure it out and fix it eventually.
Discuss This Topic
Discuss This Topic
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
The Mothership has landed at Tranquility Cove. No, not the Tranquility
Cove on the moon but the one in South Carolina. We drove straight
through from Kitty Hawk to this location in seven hours last Saturday.
We have really tested the heating system of the Mothership because one
night it got down to 23 degrees and with the dual furnaces we were cozy
as can be. We are spending Christmas with Bob's mom and dad and
enjoying just kicking back and relaxing. Bob helped his dad activate
the second tuner on his Tivo yesterday. We ran a second coax feed from
his dish which already had a 4 output multiswitch on it. So, it was an
easy job and it is really nice having that second tuner running so he
can record one channel while watching another or record two different
channels at the same time.
Thursday, December 18, 2003
This is the Harry Combs replica. The guys on the Wright Experience
Team, (the ones that attempted the flight), suggested that we walk up
and take a look at this one. They said their replica was a little worn
from all of the flying and that this one was a pristine replica. We
actually felt the Wright Experience Replica was probably more like what
the Wright Brother's plane looked like after all of its flights.
Actually, as you can see in the photo below, the Wright Experience
Replica is quite beautiful. We told them that they had done a wonderful
job at demonstrating what a difficult thing the Wrights had
accomplished. Mr. Combs, now 80, is a significant figure in the
aviation field. He was president of Gates Learjet Corporation from 1971
to 1982 and commisioned this copy of the 1903 Flyer. The reproduction
was built with over $1 million donated by Combs. The plane was donated
by Mr. Combs to the Wright Memorial on December 17, 2003 and will be on
permanent display at the Visitor Center at the Wright Memorial.
Today, Thursday, June 18, is the day after the official closing of the
Centennial of Flight Celebration. We drove by the memorial and the main
entrance was closed but we decided to go around to the First Flight
Airport to ask if we could come in and take photographs. Everyone we
talked to were friendly and told us we were welcome to walk in and take
photos. We went to the Wright Experience EAA Pavillion and talked with
the members of the team who said it would be fine if we took photos.
This is a small example of one of the photos. I am going to create an
album to store the higher resolution images. I will post a link to that
site when it has been completed.
Wright Experience - Reconstructing the Wright Brothers' Legacy
Wright Experience - Reconstructing the Wright Brothers' Legacy
The above link is to the website published by the group that created and learned to fly the replica of the 1903 Flyer. It is the most complete assemblage of information, photos, and documents relating to the Wright Brothers and their flight experiments.
The above link is to the website published by the group that created and learned to fly the replica of the 1903 Flyer. It is the most complete assemblage of information, photos, and documents relating to the Wright Brothers and their flight experiments.
The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers The Library of Congress Collection.
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