Vingle

So I was reading Jason Toney’s blog and he mentioned a new word “Vingle” and I thought “WTF is a vingle? Is it the name of a new song? Is it a type of song? What is it?”. So today I was looking on iTunes for a podcast I

Batting Cages

Tonight was our datenight; Caitlin was 3rd wheeling it (we don’t count Jessalyn as a wheel since shes stuck to us no matter what). Caitlin switched up her weekly visit to her Grand Parents house, she use to go every wednesday (they would spend the night then in the

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How to: Get Falbum to work in Wordpress 2.0

I’m writing this post in hope of helping someone that are having issues with WordPress 2.0 and getting the latest version of Falbum (the off site flickr album viewer for wordpress) to work. The main issue is that if you want to get Falbum’s friendly url’s

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Logmein.com

Here at work we were having this problem where the user is wanting to connect remotely to her computer at work. The user is on an unknown net connect (may have NAT, or may not, may be on wireless or may not) so we had to have it work no

Five-year-old gets drunk at Applebee’s

I saw this on BoingBoing today: “Five-year-old Seth Pereles was sipping what his mother thought was an apple juice at the Applebee’s restaurant in Battery Park City, New York. Turns out that apparently he had accidentally been served a Long Island Iced Tea. His mother, Cynthia Pereles, says the

Shots

Jessalyn had her four month shots today. My insurance at worked changed which allowed us to switch doctors to one we REALLY wanted. Our previous one we didn’t ever get to see, instead some guy (Jen and I call him Dr. Oatmeal Mouth because of the way he talked

Jessalyn sleeping in her jumper

Jess and I were playing with her jumper and she got sleepy and fell asleep.

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Wordpress 2.0 “Uploader”

So if you havent noticed (or care) WordPress 2.0 changed up the way it deals with uploads. I found a website that describes this and why they went about it. I’ll save the typing for someone else and just link you over to it: http://www.darcynorman.net/

Flight 93

Plot Outline: A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot. Official Site: http://www.flight93.net/ Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/flight93/index.html IMDB: http:

Bushnell Telescope

Tonight I got home and busted out the Bushnell Reflecting Telescope that Jen’s mother bought the family and did some calibrating on the moon. The moon was a 1/4 or so which gave me a chance to get everything dialed in and let the kids appreciate the gift

Security Update for Windows XP (KB912919)

Security Update for Windows XP (KB912919) Nerdtalk below: “A remote code execution security issue has been identified in the Graphics Rendering Engine that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.” Laymens talk: Download and patch your computer, if not any of those

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Upgrade to Wordpress 2.0

So I did the upgrade to wordpress 2.0 on this blog (abstrakone.com) and didnt have any major problems as of yet. I also installed Livejournal Crossposter which I have yet to try (actually im doing this post to test it). I also installed XrisXros which does the same