Called A&E Appliance Repair for appliance repair of both a Viking under-counter fridge and a Dacor double oven. Identified both by specific model number and asked if they repaired those models and brands. Walked the A&E dispatcher through the error codes on both devices and the exact model numbers, and asked them to pre-buy the [...]
We made the announcement at the Winter Gathering, and Erci and I will be less active in La Belle Compagnie for the time being. We’ve been a bit overloaded. We are going downtown to see the Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon Gold Hoard at National Geographic with fellow La Belle members today, and we will still be involved [...]
Clearly I have been a little overwhelmed by life lately, and that has been both good and bad… Trivial little updates and one liners are so easy on that mixed blessing/curse of Facebook that I am afraid I have neglected more thoughtful writing here. I will try to catch up a little for those who [...]
Years ago I stopped trying to talk friends out of smoking cigarettes, and started trying to talk them into rolling their own so at least they knew what crap was going into the damned things… Now there is a second reason to roll your own: http://boingboing.net/2011/11/27/nyc-sues-roll-your-own-cigaret.html
Enjoying OneTeam (http://oneteam.im/) new Jabber/AIM/Yahoo/GTalk client on my iPhone that supports Jabber Chat rooms beautifully.
If you are getting a new mobile phone, and you’ll be extending your contract, please have driver’s license, passport, military id, or state id ready. The carriers require that in order to extend your contract. You should also sync your current mobile phone to your computer to back up it’s data before switching it out [...]
Woot! The long awaited iOS update is showing up in my iTunes 10.5 now; so I am applying it to iPad first and then iPhone 4 next. Squee!!!! Even more Squee: Airport Utility for iOS!!!
I am replacing (finally) my venerable Palm Tungsten C and Palm Desktop Software on my Macs with Evernote… and it may replace some other things too – initial impression is: amazing! The driver to get off Palm Desktop (which I admit to using less and less lately) is that it is a PowerPC app on [...]
Tagged cloud, Evernote, Lion, Palm DesktopAt a glance Twitter appears to be just like status updates in Facebook, but with none of the other junk. Just plain text from your friends and those you decide to follow. Doh! I should have been doing twitter all along and ignoring Facebook. If you care, I am scottdavidnolan on Twitter. I will NOT [...]
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