Like many others I am extreamily frustrated by Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 export features. The Organizer (only in Windows version) alows you to do some great management of collections of photos and of hierorical keywords. It starts out with multiple first level Keyword groups; People, Places and the like. Each of those top level keyword groups gets ( Read more... )

A while ago David Lawrence contacted KUSP and said that he wanted to speak with me about the name "GeekSpeak" and how I use it. I looked up his trademark on "GeekSpeak" and started to freekout.

My basic thought was that I would have to change the name of my show, and Geek Speak is a great name. Needles to say, I was bummed. I talk to David on the ( Read more... )

Marina Troxell, my sister, is loosing her kidney, this will be the 4th she has lost in her 29 years. Her husband, Chris, was going to donate one of his to her, but the last test came up positive for rejection. So it's a no-go. Chis has rejected Marina as well; they just filed for divorce. They have two small children, Ariana, 3 and Arora age 1. ( Read more... )

This is going on:

• Wyatt is growing rapidly and has new and interesting things to say daily. He is way into Bob the Builder.
• Gwendolyn is in that infant stage where she looks new and changed twice a day. Unlike her brother, she is bigger then other babies at her age; she is in the 95th percentile on the CDC Growth Charts.
• Daria is no longer ( Read more... )

When I was in junior high school my father would type my papers for me. He didn't do the work for me - he simply typed what I had already written. He was a very fast typist. After high school and college and a move to southern California I started working as a web developer and programmer. During a visit from my parents, or was it me visiting them ( Read more... )

Daria, my wife, has a job up here at UCSC. She is the new Housing Coordinator for Cowell College. It's keeping her busiy and interested. And we get to carpool (cheaper parking permit!).
Wyatt, my son, is transitioning to "Toddler Plus", which is the older day-car room at the Children Center. He's growing up so fast ( Read more... )

Recently Thunderbird switched it's preferences or some such, so to use the new Thunderbird I would have to re-train my SPAM filters. Instead, I decided to switch over to Mail....
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I finally got PostgreSQL 7.4.2 to install with pgcrpto on Mac OS 10.3 (Panther). Here is what I did:
1) First visit the PostgreSQL on Mac OS X developer page on apple.com.

2) The first error I ran into was with the make reporting that "gcc2" was not found. On the developer page in the make section where it reads

root@mail:postgresql-7.4.1> make
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Well I finally got Business Objects to play relatively nice with two data sets. Now to make it look all nifty and to get Excel to be a good kid.

Last night I went out and saw Kill Bill Vol. II. I enjoyed it more then the first one. I do feel, however, that Quentin is trying to impress his audience. I would rather that he work on making a good film ( Read more... )

Daria (my love) got a job for 3 weeks - temp work, good money.

Wyatt (my son) is in day care 5 days a week 9to5.

Peter (my dad) died on March 17th. I miss him terribly. Any time that I sit doing nothing I think of him. Trying to go to sleep at night, esp last night, is very hard ( Read more... )