Pete on March 28th, 2006

I get my share of email forwards. My family sends them. My friends send them. Some are amusing, some I’ve seen before, some get investigated at Snopes, etc. All in all, I probably don’t get so many that my inbox is overstuffed, and there have been some gems (I first saw [...]

Continue reading about Email forwards (3)

Pete on March 26th, 2006

Just wanted to give a quick update, and celebrate a small victory in my quest to build my own PVR.

Continue reading about MythTV: Round 1 (1)

Pete on March 8th, 2006

‘Twas the night before installation
And all through the shop,
Not a program was working
It sure was a flop.
The programmers hung by their tubes in despair,
In the hopes that a miracle soon would be there.
The users were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of inquiries danced in their heads.
When out in the hall [...]

Continue reading about ‘Twas the Night Before Installation (3)

Pete on February 23rd, 2006

Irony is listening to the morning radio show on the drive to work and pulling into your spot waiting to hear the answer to the question “87% of Americans have trouble doing this in the morning”, waiting and waiting, to find out the answer is “get to work on time”. Whoa.
BW3’s boneless wings [...]

Continue reading about MUMPS, etc. (1)

Pete on February 22nd, 2006

Tonight, on a whim, I upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress, 2.0, which was released some time ago.

Continue reading about First Wordpress 2.0 post! (2)

Pete on February 22nd, 2006

My first (Score:5, Interesting) ! My comments don’t usually get moderated more than a 2.  Woohoo!

Continue reading about Score:5, Interesting

Pete on January 28th, 2006

Well, its been a slow, fairly relaxing weekend so far….home alone with Sam, Jen gone to her vet conference, and me being able to catch up on sleep and my movie watching.  And an eclectic bunch of movies that was:  I have now seen a person get cut in half down the middle, from top [...]

Continue reading about The Weekend of Pete

Pete on December 26th, 2005

Well, we made it!  It’s been a whirlwind weekend of traveling to both of our families and spending time with each.  I think everyone had a good time, everyone enjoyed their gifts, and we balanced the trips between both families pretty well!  My family’s gathering was, well, interesting, but that’s a story I’ll have to [...]

Continue reading about Christmas 2005: That’s a Wrap

Pete on December 15th, 2005

Here you go - my foray into anecdotes from my day-to-day life.  There’s a reason I don’t talk about my work and what I do during the week….I’m betting it is incredibly boring to pretty much anyone outside of the tech or programming side.  Anyway…
Today I had my first experience with using XML in .NET!  [...]

Continue reading about My first XML (1)