Instead of permanently fixing my motorcycle at the shop, they only had to replace the battery to get it up and running again. It’s likely that the battery has gone bad due to the poorly connected ground wire in the front harness [see recall post below]. They told me what the recall notice says: “Don’t [...]
Filed under: Life News on September 27th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There’s a recall on my motorcycle. I have a letter from Honda describing exactly the problem I’m having and they say: “Don’t ride until you get it fixed! This could result in your death!” Great. Thanks. Too bad they didn’t mention this BEFORE my bike broke… or before I put over 22,000 miles on it… [...]
Filed under: Life News on September 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After so many long hours at work, I get to take a breather of sorts. I say “of sorts” because the in-laws are in town and we won’t actually be relaxing, but we will probably be out doing stuff. The most important thing is that family is here and I won’t be working.
Filed under: Life News on September 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
I have been attempting to make some reservations around our upcoming dive trip to the Florida Keys. However: all the rooms in the cheap hotels are booked and going fast. The cheapest rooms are now going for over $220/night. That’s not going to be affordable, what with diving and all. So – it might be [...]
Filed under: Life News, Scuba, Travel on September 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
We’ve already got the cameras, now all we need is some light. We’ve ordered some new studio lighting for our photography business. We saw these lights demoed by Scott Kelby at a recent seminar about Adobe Lightroom [which was very informative, I must say]. The lights are unlike most studio lights in the sense that they [...]
Filed under: Photography on September 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
After working all day Saturday and long hours during the week, I’m finally able to sit down at home and see to some system updates on my own network. I downloaded and installed Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2 and have to say that it is a very nice improvement over the RTM version. The full [...]
Filed under: Life News, Site News, Technology on September 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
Today, we’re going downtown to learn more about Adobe Lightroom. That’s the application I use to manage my photography library. I’m hoping to learn some tricks and skills and how to better utilize the tool that I bought. The good part is that I will not be going to my regular job. I’ve been working [...]
Filed under: Life News, Photography on September 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
I know I’m a little bit late on this “breaking news”, but Fred Thompson has now officially declared his candidacy after what has to be the longest pre-campaign spin up ever. If you’re interested in a quick overview of some of his views, MSNBC.com has an interesing article. Here is an excerpt: He recently poked [...]
Filed under: Politics on September 7th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I “get” to work late tonight. My customer is doing a migration which must be done at night, so I’m here keeping an eye on things. The main stuff doesn’t start until 11:59PM, so this stands a chance of going until 6AM. Yikes! Let’s hope it doesn’t!
Filed under: Life News, Work News on September 7th, 2007 | No Comments »
In the course of my security training at work, I learned many things about security – especially securing wireless networks. In a previous posting many years ago [quite litterally - Sept. 2004], I talked about securing a Wireless network. I was wrong on one topic though: DON’T disable the broadcasting of the SSID. I read [...]
Filed under: Life News, Technology on September 7th, 2007 | No Comments »
