FoxForward : Boy is my office a mess

, August 30, 2007

It’s just over a week until the FoxForward 2007 conference and things are starting to come together … in my office.  Conference bags, boxes of t-shirts, sponsor materials, and swag.  It’s really a mess in here!  I’m not normally that tidy in my office but this is ridiculous!  I’ve got to get some printing done [...]


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A sad thing happened on the way to FoxForward

, August 21, 2007

Janice was our hotel coordinator for FoxForward 2006 and again this year.  Janice and I had scheduled a meeting for yesterday to go over the room layout and our needs for the conference.  Janice was to have just returned from an extended vacation to Canada to see some family and friends, and forced our meeting [...]


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FoxForward and just a few weeks to go

, August 20, 2007

Gah.  It’s crunch time right now.  There’s stuff happening behind the scenes at a rapid pace now. The shirts have arrived.  Attendees get a t-shirt with a FoxForward logo over the breast pocket and a large logo across the back.  I’m very pleased with the design of the shirts.  The image was taken from the [...]


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One month until FoxForward 2007!

, August 7, 2007

It is getting to be a flurry of activity.  I’m about to send off the conference book to publishing.  I have to design the front and back cover of the book as this publisher allows for cover art. I’m also trying to finish the design of the shirts.  The attendees will be getting t-shirts and [...]


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Grandma gets her Ubuntu computer

, August 7, 2007

I delivered and set up the computer on Friday night.  We scheduled an hour on Saturday morning to go over how to operate the computer.  I don’t think they really need it because it’s so easy. For the printer, I checked Walmart to see what they carried.  There was a HP D1420 that was only [...]


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Grandma’s Ubuntu computer gets a modem

, August 3, 2007

The modem showed up the day before yesterday.  I cracked open the box yesterday and got it running in short order.  I purchased a Hawking PCI Modem, model HM92P.  Unlike the mentions it gets on the web, it doesn’t come with Linux drivers.  Bummer!  I was running short on time so I bopped over to [...]


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