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Paint, Paint Everywhere (Paper, Paper Everywhere II) June 24, 2007

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Well the wall paper has been removed for about a week now. My part in the process decreased dramatically as I was sleeping more when my wife was awake due to my work schedule. Now it’s paint everywhere, well actually it’s globs of paint everywhere, our daughter was helping. I’ve had to clean up the woodwork twice now. And have her clean herself up a couple times also. But, it will all be worth it in the end. It will look great and we get the satisfaction of having done the work by our selves, mostly my wife.

Paper, paper, everywhere June 12, 2007

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First it was the Kitchen, well actually lets step back a little more.  It actually begain with the Living Room, but that is just a gleam in the eye of owning this house. We had the kitchen remodled, redecorated, call it what you will. And as always my wife did a wounderful job of designing it. But right now we are redecorating the Dinning Room, and I think i have found the most maddening thing ever! Taking down wall paper, it does not want to copperate. We have it mostly off one wall, and thank goodness it’s the most papered wall. Then on top of that there are two different colors of wall paper, but the same design and they are totally different when taking them down. So my advise to you, those crazy enough to heed it, get it done professionally least you end up in a straight jacket. I’ll keep you all apraised of the progress, and hey there might even be a few pictures.

O where, O where, did that little hole go, O where did it go November 20, 2006

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You remember those long summer days you spent digging that hole! That hole that would allow you to reach… yes reach China. My friend the Library Despot stumbled across this site, a Google maps mash-up that calculates just where that whole would have ended up. And like my friend the Despot I would have had a pair of very upset parents after having emptied a whole ocean into our back yard.

Can Vista cause some one to go MIA? September 12, 2006

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Well I can say I am liking what I have seen so far with Windows Vista, RC1. I had been running Beta 2 in VM since it became available via the CPP (Customer Preview Program). For those of you who signed up for Vista Beta 2 in June for the CPP you should have received an e-mail allowing to download Vista RC1. For those who did not sign-up or get to sign-up they will be opening up to new participants in the next couple of weeks.

Now for for the rest of the story. I down loaded Vista RC1 last Thursday and have rebuilt my laptop with it as the my main OS. The last couple of days I have finally been able to get my laptop to some semblance of order and to a point of being able to use it as my primary machine. So between work, family, and computer building my time has been totally consumed, sleep being a bit lacking initially. So that is where I had disappeared off to, and contrary to popular belief I had not taken holiday to Pluto.

Announcing Dev-N-Progress August 14, 2006

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I have a new blog to add to the AnderTek fold, Dev-N-Progress, . In reality it is not new, it is my development site that I have consolidated from having one for each blog instance to one. So it has been around in some fashion for a while now. It will be postings pertaining to my blogging experiences from an admin perspective.

Well… it looks like this site for testing and development just might also end up being a blog on such. The basic format, or actually theme would probably be a better way to describe it, or even more vague would be direction, is my time and journeys I take in my blogging admin duties.

I would be glad to receive any comments or suggestions for content. As I stated above this will be my development site for now so there will be the possibility of it being down at times.

Happy Blogging

…and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad [Birth]day April 11, 2006

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What a great first post for The Cranky Blogger the Humble Abode, long work night, sleep deprivation, and the headaches of work. YEA!!!! 

Ever had one of those days where everything is just falling down around you? Well that was my day yesterday, April 9th, I must say, a …Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

All I have to say is…

“I HATE BACKUPS!!!”

There now I feel much better. OK, OK, maybe it’s just the tape drives or robots when they are not working, but I can truly say after yesterday I hate it when that happens. Ended up working 14hrs, ouch, yuk. Then to top it all off it was my birthday. So, there we have it folks that was my birthday. [My] …Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Backups are a good thing don’t get me wrong, in fact as an IT Professional it is my duty to make sure you know that. :-) But when dealing with enterprise backups and compliancy it makes for some very hectic times.

There now I feel very better, thank you for your time.