Finally got the house ‘financial’ PC back up and running; a recent Windows 7 update had crashed it pretty severely, and really messed up its connections via a wireless fob to the house network.  After some messing around, I came to the conclusion that the best way to fix this was to (a) buy a 50′ length of Ethernet cable and (b) string it under the ( Read more... )

Seriously crappy, rainy weather out there; supposed to rain like heck all day and night.

Mere and Susan have been at our local rink in Lombard’s roller skating meet; getting up and out the door before 5 am is not for sissies! Both Saturday and Sunday mornings went like that, and they came back as soon as they could and and crashed/napped/ rested ( Read more... )

I’m looking for some kind of document manager that will be able to easily file away my own, personal digital documents collection; scanned personal papers, scanned financial papers, pdfs of technical articles, that sort of thing. A good friend who is far more adept at programming came over the other day and was chatting at me about his similar ( Read more... )