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Thursday, September 1, 2005

Software to the Rescue! -- 10:56 am CST, Update by The Master

A software package called Poseidon came to the rescue of a 10-year old girl in a Wales pool on August 24th. You can see pictures of the software in action. Having viewed these pictures, and being the parent of two boys who believe they are part duck, this is just awesome.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Pondering the Imponderable -- 10:57 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

When I got my DVD burner, I moved my "old" CD-RW/DVD-ROM to my kids' Win98 box downstairs. I installed the Nero software that came with it. In short order, I noticed some significant stability problems. I thought I might be running into power issues, but I could burn CDs with no problems. I decided to try removing InCD (packet-writing software for CD-RWs) from the boot process. Suddenly, the instability went away. I'm not sure what the problem is, but that did the trick. Thankfully I never really did use packet-writing that much. If I care to try again, I'll have to see if there's an updated version I can download.

In an unrelated story, gas went up to $3.19 a gallon today. That's up $0.50 since yesterday. The good news is that maybe this will prompt me to do a little more walking.

J.t.Qbe comments: Today for the first time in my life I paid more than $3/gallon for gas. Unfortunately it's only going to go up, at least for a while. I'd guess that by Christmas we'll be used to the $3 mark. I'd be very happy to admit to being wrong on this prediction.

In other news, this week marks 20 years since I first started college. I'm celebrating by...starting at another college. But now they all look so young.

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December 19, 2006: Pocket Tunes 4.0 Released
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