Garmin Nuvi Map Update – A long hard road to map
My wife surprised me with a GPS system for my birthday last month, and I love it. Georgia is a difficult state to navigate around. Each of the older roads are named for where they go.  This means that the roads end up changing names every 5 miles or less. For example, Roswell Rd. is [...]
Tags: Garmin, Maps, Nuvi
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Batch processing JPG images! Everyone MOGRIFY!
I’ve been doing more web site designs lately. My clients will often give me hundreds of product images that I need to manipulate. I’ve got Thumbnailer on the Windows platform to do a lot of my processing. However, I’ve taken to adding borders to the images. Typically I’m adding a white inner border, with a [...]
Tags: batch, image processing, mogrify
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Ragsdale for Congress
I normally don’t post political things on this blog, tending to keep this blog technical in nature but … my friend is running for congress! How can I not post about it?!? Kevin Ragsdale, FoxForward “Best Presenter” winner, is running for congress. His top priority just happens to be my top priority for this election: [...]
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Linux Widescreen LCD Love At Last
My office is an oven in the summer. I’ve got two servers, a desktop, a laptop, and two 19″ CRT monitors. By the afternoon, temperatures are over 84 degrees in my office. I’ve contemplated doing all sorts of expensive solutions. Window AC unit was one, but it would be ugly, loud and my neighbors wouldn’t [...]
Tags: Acer, AL2016WB, Intel, LCD, MEPIS, Mobile, Monitor
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Akregator : Love it.
I’ve been running Akregator for several months now. It’s working great. For my only complaint, I’ve just fixed a few minutes ago. I don’t know why I lived with this annoyance for so long. When I want to read a blog entry in an external browser such as Firefox, it wouldn’t open the browser if [...]
Tags: Akregator, Social Networking
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MP3 Download from Walmart : FAIL
I’m really liking that we can now purchase DRM free music in the form of MP3s. Napster, Amazon, Walmart, and others finally are providing the way to purchase music without handcuffs for personal use. I’m finally glad to see the music industry to get that bug out of their … but something isn’t quite right. [...]
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WordPress Blog Update Plugin
I’ve got two blogs, and I use WordPress for a wide variety of my clients as a way for them to update their web sites. It’s worked out very well. It’s always been a pain, and a worry, to keep all of their WordPress installations updated. In fact, this blog has been attacked many times [...]
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Don’t buy that extended warranty from Dell
Here’s the link: Dell deceived customers, judge says The article isn’t well written, but the gist of the article is that Dell deceived people into purchasing extended warranties and service contracts that just didn’t deliver.  I never go for that stuff anyway, and you shouldn’t either. There were a couple of times where I think [...]
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SWFox Registration Opens Today!
I’m a few minutes early, but not by much. Unfortunately, there won’t be a FF08, so that means that you *must* get to SWFox to satisfy your VFP addiction. I’m sure that the SWFox gang will put on another great show this year.
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Does foxnews.com Hate Linux Users?
Sure enough, they won’t serve up video to Linux based computers. I got the low down from The ERACC Web Log. I wonder why they made that decision? To block video based on the operating system? Weird.
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