Category: Blog

Lighting up the Christmas Tree, originally uploaded by Kreg.

 

Here it is, the First, originally uploaded by Kreg.

So this is the beginning…my son lost his first tooth last night. Seems like we just brought him home as a baby, and now he is loosing teeth.

On Technorama, we have been talking about Steampunk for a while now and I can’t help it. I am strangly fascinated with the designs that people dream up. If you don’t know, Steampunk is the now popular design style of modern day gadgets into Victorian era English style. Somewhat like the design and style of the show the Wild Wild West where they had all this cool spy gadgets in the old west.

I saw this over at Shorpy, and had to share. Shorpy is ” a blog about old photos and what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating.” The Blog is a lot of fun to follow, and I highly recommend putting it in your feedreader.

Help Is On the Way: 1915 | Shorpy Historical Photographs

“Mine Rescuer” circa 1915. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Technorati Tags: steampunk, miner, photography

While out at the Podcast and New Media expo this last year, I was talking to Darusha Wehm about my plans for a novel that I wanted to write. Well, after the expo Darusha remembered about my idea to write, and told me about the NaNoWriMo (National Write a Novel Month).

NaNoWriMo is more of a personal challenge than anything to write a 50,000 word novel with in the month of November. The describe it as, “a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.”

So, I had already started writing (only about 500 words) when she told me about NaNoWriMo, so I stopped and waited for Nov 1st to start. So far I have to say it is fun. I find my self driven to write, and have a goal to work towards.

Now, will I make the 50,000 word goal? Dunno, but I am really trying to get there. My main objective besides trying to hit the 50,000 word mark is to at least write everyday in november. If I can do that…I felt like I won.

Thanks Darusha for pointing this out to me.

Here is a link to my profile to follow my progress.

Technorati Tags: nanowrimo, novel, write, fiction

Victor over at the Typical Mac User Podcast says:

 “Listener Brian ( In Texas) sent me the picture below of his Gmail client . When he went to settings then “Forwarding
and POP” section, it shows a new IMAP Access section which includes
verbiage that says “Configure your email client (e.g. Oulook,
Thunderbird, iPhone). According to Brian “There were no instructions
available on the support center, merely an option to enable or disable
imap.”

Head over and read more about it.

Technorati Tags: gmail, imap, mail, email

Listener Brian ( In Texas) sent me the picture (See site) below of his Gmail client . When he went to settings then “Forwarding and POP” section, it shows a new IMAP Access section which includes verbiage that says “Configure your email client (e.g. Oulook, Thunderbird, iPhone).

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Slated for release on October 24th, it’s the annual Technology-themed Halloween Special presented by Friends in Tech.

“It’s the Great Server Chuck and Kreg!”

Convinced that the Great Server will be making its yearly appearance, Kreg refuses to go Trick-or-Treating with the rest of the FiT gang and instead pulls an all-nighter waiting for the Great Server to “…rise up out of the server farm and brings technology to all the good geeks around the world.”

Written by Douglas E. Welch and the Members of Friends in Tech

Don’t miss it!

You can also check out previous FiT Halloween Specials:
– The Server Room of Horrors
– The Server Room of Horrors 2006

Technorati Tags: Friends in Tech, halloween, podcast, special

A few select images from the trip Chuck and I recently made to San Francisco, CA before the Podcast and Portable Media Expo.