Category Archives: Computers

I Chase Squirrels? or Chasing Squirrels?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by admin

First thanks to the excellent Opinionated Catholic for chiming in. I checked domain names and ichasesquirrels is available in just about every domain. Chasingsquirrels is available as .co or .net. For a blog I think .net is more appropriate. Why … Continue reading →

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Idea for the social-political blog name

Posted on May 9, 2012 by admin

I have mentioned before my discomfort with using this blog to comment on social-political issues. And may start a new blog with a different title for that. Been trying to think of a catchy title. I have never been good … Continue reading →

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NOTE – Closed registration and purged (almost) all users

Posted on July 12, 2011 by admin

Quick note/announcement. Every day there are about 1-3 spam registrations with this website. 1) Thanks to Disqus people can leave comments without registering with this website. They only need to be registered with Disqus. 2) I have closed registrations for … Continue reading →

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Have you tried repent- I mean *rebooting*?

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Rick

I make a little extra income taking care of the computers and network at the church where I serve. We also have *cough several cough* computers at home – most of them old and seldom used. How often has a … Continue reading →

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Extremely funny comic for the few computer geeks who will get it

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Rick

Was perusing my latest issue of LINUX Journal – to which I subscribe so should you! – and came across this cartoon. Some computer geeks will get it. I thought it very funny and laughed out loud.

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Moment of geek – xubuntu 8.10

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Rick

We celebrated our 17th – yes seventeenth – wedding anniversay last Saturday (because we had the day free – the actual date is the 14th). Saw “Watchmen”. Had dinner. Walked over to Barnes and Noble. I bought a copy of … Continue reading →

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Thinking about (not) switching to Mac

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Rick

The parish in which I serve is – like most organizations – a Microsoft shop. And my family receives a little extra income because I provide part-time information technology support. Over the past few years we have made significant progress … Continue reading →

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"In a different reality I could have called you friend"

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Rick

One of the things that has struck me the last several weeks is how many people out there in the blogosphere are (drum roll please) a lot like me. I do not want to dwell too much on this but … Continue reading →

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For Chris – setting default save in OpenOffice.org

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Rick

He will know what this is about. Others might be interested. OpenOffice How to Set Default Save

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