Uff Da!

The spam trollers will hit this, bounce to any one of 3.2 trillion randomly generated pages, and then start downloading an infinite number of completely random e-mail addresses. Once their database of e-mail addresses has been sufficiently polluted, it becomes unusable due to the high number of resources required to successfully send e-mails, and therefore […]

Something strange happened just before the holidays and XP (Pro) became very unstable. At the same time, our router stopped working completely — no power-on light — and three hard disks developed sector errors, so my guess is that we had a spike that fried the router and crashed/rebooted XP in such a way that […]

I’ve been tossing around the idea of setting up an Opdahls-only VoIP network for a while. We live in Tokyo (Although I travel 50+% of the time), my brother and his family are down near Los Angeles, my sister and her family are in the Portland, Oregon area, and my parents split their time between […]

I own MSFT as an investment, so some would say I am at cross-purposes with this post, but one has to wonder at some of the moronic things happening in Redmond. Like this…
Today Jan and I decided that (once again) we would input all of our investment data, etc., etc., into the PC and get […]

Hmmm…Seems to work just fine. Zempt still gives the same application error, however, so it’s something other that the xmlrpc.php file.

Yech! I use Firefox and have since when it was still in buggy-beta mode. w.bloggar is freeware of course, which is one of the reasons I like it. Why, then, does it ignore my default settings and open IE instead of Firefox when I click on the FAQ or “Open w.bloggar Site?”

A big Uff Da! to WordPress. What’s the issue with not including xmlrpc.php in the distribution? Looking back through forums I see that this has been a problem since v1.2 came out this last summer? Uff Da! And the comments I see from the WordPress developers run along the lines that with the 5-minute installation […]

I think I just did a hard reboot on my camera. I have a Kodak DX6490 that I really like. It has all the automation you need for snapshots at parties, etc., but gives you lots of manual control when you want that as well. (Except for manual focus. It doesn’t do manual focus. I […]

So it’s the display that’s fried. Bummer.

I’m stumped on this one and think that it is a hardware issue. About 1 month ago I tried to write a DVD, and during the write cycle there was a lot of noise from the drive unit - almost like one gets from a hard disk that is thrashing a disk cache. The write […]

OK, I’ll admit it right here — I’m a wannabe geek. I lack the training, the time, and possibly the mindset to fly with the ubergeek crowd. However (ahem…) , I’ll hold my own with the other untrained and unwashed masses and even occasionally startle an unprepared geek or two. Because I seem to push […]