Tom's Insights - Week of 12/17/01

Week of December 17th, 2001

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Monday December 17, 2001

It's been a long day -- I've been sitting at my desk since about 08:00 and just finished up the demands of my day job. Actually, I've been sitting here for 15 minutes trying to decide whether to write something here today. I don't feel much like typing another word, but I feel bad about my impoverished journalling efforts last week...

I don't really have a heck of a lot to report, which is a bit surprising considering how long its been. My Dell TrueMobile wireless card continues to work like champ. Out of curiousity I downloaded and installed the new XP drivers released by Linksys last week. Nada difference. Sitting on the couch upstairs, my signal strength was listed as "poor" at about 20%. I popped out the Linksys, plugged in the Dell card (without moving), and immediately got a "very good" signal. Go figure. The Linksys card used to work all the way out onto the back porch. About the only thing I can figure is the antenna has been damaged from removing and reinserting the card -- the Dell is clearly engineered with more "meat" around the antenna attaching point.

Beyond that, life is. The weather has warmed rather dramatically (+5 today I believe). The kids are getting pumped about Christmas. And my desk is a mess again. I'd better get it cleaned -- I've got a lot of material to wade through this weekand I'm going to need some elbow room.

Cheers.

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Tuesday December 18, 2001

No words tonight; just a picture for you:

Danielle, Landon, and a new arrival, Conner (our next door neighbor's new-born).

Be well; enjoy your week.

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Saturday December 22, 2001

Heh-heh-heh... Guess what I've been playing with?

Several things to note: It's RH 7.2 for those interested; Quanta 2.0.1 (I'm VERY impressed -- thanks to Greg for the font resolution problem); and last but not least, look carefully... at the TRANSLUCENT menus. Sheesh... not even Windoz does that!!!

Be well. Happy holidays.