Daddy, make a picture

How did I end up here at the Starbuck’s in Darian, CT when I should be at work you ask?
Well… I’ll tell you.
Yesterday our IT guys showed up at 4pm all hot and bothered and ready to upgrade our mail server to Exchange 2003 and our file server to Server 2003 as well.
And now […]

Please take a moment from your day to wish my wonderful wife Sue a very happy birthday and many many more….!!
/we now return you to your regularly scheduled blog content….

Wouldn’t it be just great if the numbers 1, 2 and 3 movies this weekend would be:
1. 50 First Dates
2. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
3. The Passion of the Christ?
At least in my world…

*yawn*
Long day. I took the girlies to the mall today to buy a birthday gift for Sue. S has had a nasty cough all week and by the time we got out of the van and into the Palace of Commerce she was all red in the face and coughing up a nasty mix.
So […]

We’re a Caillou family now!

It was the router and in a rare stroke of luck, today CompUselessA had the Netgear DSL/Cable Router and 4 port hub thingie on sale for $19.
So, we’re back in business.
Thanks to all for the tech support. That’s one great thing about the blogverse. You can avoid a lot of calls to tech support.
So now, […]

I’m writing this directly connected to the cable modem. No router, hub or Airport base station.
What I’ve figured out is that the router is telling the universe that it’s a DNS server. And that’s not good. I discovered this when I noticed that each time I rebooted the Airport base it took the router’s […]

I was planning on spending last night troubleshooting the network to see if it is indeed the router but my lovely daughters decided to stay up past 10 so instead I spent that time watching South Park with S and L.
I do think it is the router. I did manage to connect it directly […]

Sometimes when a company shows you that just maybe they know what the heck they are doing, you just have to say ‘wow.’
When we got our cable modem oh so many years ago (three actually) I figured that the crappy customer service we got from Cablevision would extend to their Internet service and for the […]

I’m about 90% finished getting the new PowerBook all tricked out just the way I like it.
I have PHP and MySQL installed and running. For word processing and related work stuff (the stuff we have to do normally on Wintel machines, you know that stuff) I downloaded OpenOffice, which so far seems to handle […]