Archive for the 'General' Category

Math Enigma

Posted by johnG on 30th November , 2008

Find X All these years – I never knew where to look for “x” Happy Holidays john…

Secretary of Defence (sic)

Posted by johnG on 25th November , 2008

Are you kidding me! Yahoo editors what are you thinking?!!!  

Deja Vu

Posted by johnG on 2nd November , 2008

  Windows 7 I’ve been reviewing the initial features in Windows 7 via the CTP. I remember this same phenomenon in the fall of 2005 when I received my first preview of Vista. (Longhorn) So far I like this: The “Play To:” will let you play media to any device on you network. Great for [...]

“My Bad” — “You kids today”

Posted by johnG on 16th September , 2008

My observation of the day is kids that say “my bad.” Most of them think this is a recent trend. Well, get educated: Mea culpa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Mea Culpa (disambiguation). Look up mea culpa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mea culpa is a Latin phrase that translates into English as “my fault”, or “my own [...]

Ever Seen a Gas Pump Running Windows Embedded Crash?

Posted by johnG on 7th August , 2008

This is a first for me. I’ve seen the big reader boards here in Las Vegas “blue screen,” however, I’ve never seen a gas pump crash before. LOL,   john…  

Militia 2.0

Posted by johnG on 8th May , 2008

I had a thought about ten years ago. How many U.S. kids are at home playing video games, especially online video games every day, 20, 50, 75 Million? Ok, here is what we do. We build low cost, restricted drones that can navigate within a conflict theater like Afghanistan and we allocate a drone to [...]

“I wish I could be a fly on a wall…..”

Posted by johnG on 22nd April , 2008

4/22/2008   “Death of the Portal and social network?”   Microsoft is announcing www.mesh.com tonight at 9PM!   I have a glimpse of the future with the rapid growth of sites like:   1.       Twitter.com 2.       Pownce.com 3.       Friendfeed.com   The features of the above sites coupled with web 2.0 technologies like “mash-ups” is creating [...]

Playing around with a Photoshop file

Posted by johnG on 7th April , 2008

Ugh, the week after I installed WordPress v. 2.3 v. 2.5 comes out!!

Posted by johnG on 5th April , 2008

A week after I installed Worldpress 2.3 v. 2.5 was released with features that I wanted. I couldn’t believe there was no simple upgrade path. You basically install the new version over the top of the old. Ugh! Today I found An Automatic WordPress Upgrader PlugIn from: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html. 1. Download the upgrader 2. Extact the [...]