August 2003

News from Boortz

Just some tidbits I picked up over at boortz.com If you haven't been there for his daily news. check it out. A libertarian after my own heart: George Bush has now approved the resumption of a program to shoot down…

asp and Home Automation

Managed to work up an asp page (only by looking at someone else's first) that will let me control my HA software through IIS. Have used DesktopX to have a small control on my desktop that will allow me to…

PC Rebuild

Spent most of the day rebuilding my system, so have not had a chance to get online. Will probably spend the next couple of evenings reinstalling apps, may not get a chance to post….

"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." – Thomas Jefferson…

New Forum

Just added a couple of new forums to the message bases. One for Legend of the Green Dragon, and a requests forum for the BBS. Feel free to visit and post….

Homeseer

   did something to crash my HA server. If you've tried to access the HA pages or weather station info, sorry about that. Took an hour or so to restore from backup….

BBS

   Took down the web portion of the BBS. I will replace it with phpBB to use for my forums. I have started work on the BBS itself. It is available via telnet at shadowscope.com. When I took the board down…

Mindless

Solitaire. What a mindless game. $5000 piece of electronic equipment. P4 1.8. Over 1 gb Ram. 128 meg vid card. TV tuner. Serial card. HA software. Firewire. USB 2.0. CD Burner. 15" Flast screen LCD. Custom case with lots of…

Government

"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -Voltaire[Listening to: Light My Fire – The Doors – The Doors Box Set 1998 – Band…

Galactic Dust Storm enters Solar System

The Sun's shifting magnetic field is set to focus a decade-long storm of galactic dust grains towards the inner Solar System, including Earth. Check it out here….