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Archive for December, 2004

This is a long shot, but… I’m gonna stab at it.
I had a flashback today of a picture I took of the girls a few years ago. Mariah was trapped inside a file box, peeking out through the handle hole and Whipper was on top of it. It was a Kodak moment and […]

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A Wierd One

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

Let’s see you gearheads figure this one out.
The other day I was browsing in Firefox when the cat jumped up on my desk and jarred the arm I was using to move the mouse. I mighta right-double-clicked or something odd like that because I remember trying to catch the cat and catch the mouse […]

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Even The Grinch Loves Christmas

Friday, December 24th, 2004

Longtime readers will know of my love-hate relationship with Rogers - my cable internet provider - who was recently swallowed by Yahoo - much to the dismay of most of the long-time customers.
One of my pet peeves about Rogers since the day I subscribed was the fact they didn’t let me choose my primary e-mail […]

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Using iTunes For Windows With A Rio Carbon

Friday, December 17th, 2004

A long time ago, I wrote an article about how to reset a Vista 350 telephone, and it’s gotten a lot of hits over the years and helped a lot of people, which pleases me a great deal. I researched it for days and days and finally found a “no tools” method of resetting […]

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Well.. after yesterday’s pedantic rant, George got on my case in a blog comment to just take a text editor and fix the problem. It wasn’t that easy. When I consolidated the library (big mistake #1) it stripped the rating and play count information out of the file. It wasn’t something easy […]

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Waaaaaaaaaah…

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

Well. I went out and bought my early Christmas gift. I have the illustrious Rio Carbon now. I was really in the mood for an iPod Mini, but in the words of the salesperson at the store, “Remember Tickle Me Elmo? That’s kinda the way we are with iPod Mini’s now”. […]

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Vote For My Cats

Friday, December 10th, 2004

A friend of mine on Internet Relay Chat pointed me towards a great cat site. (And they have one for dogs too). It’s called Catster.com. (You can guess what the dog one is called).
Please stop by and visit Whipper and Mariah and “give them some paw” - which is kind of like […]

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