Puzzle

A coworker has a book of puzzles, and a couple of us worked on this one the other day. I think it is a neat puzzle. (More)
Posted by jondaley on October 1, 2005, 6:16 pm | Read 947 times | Comments (1)
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Car Insurance

We recently switched our automobile insurance to State Farm, because Amica doubled their rates on our homeowners policy, a bait-and-switch sort of thing - they told me the estimated rate, and I agreed, spent a month trying to get the inspector to come look at the house. (More)
Posted by jondaley on September 24, 2005, 7:52 pm | Read 1206 times | Comments (0)
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Dr.Seuss

Jonathan has fallen in love with Dr.Seuss. He will quote from the books while we are doing other things, and laugh - "Pat, cat, No, that!" (More)
Posted by joyful on August 31, 2005, 11:47 am | Read 576 times | Comments (2)
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Mail Statistics

It is a new month, and therefore, a new point on my email graph. A couple interesting things this month: one, you can tell I went on vacation, and probably also that I knew Heather was gone the week before, so I wasn't emailing her as much either. Two, spam has now hit the 30% mark (note: the "received mail" does not include spam). Three, the size of email is getting bigger. Even though I received less email this month than the last couple months, the mailbox hit 100 megs for the month.
Posted by jondaley on August 3, 2005, 10:24 am | Read 869 times | Comments (4)
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Readable Code

I think this is the worst code I have ever seen, except where people were trying to make code hard to read. This code is in a video driver, written by Silicon Motion. (More)
Posted by jondaley on August 3, 2005, 9:37 am | Read 1193 times | Comments (0)
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PVCS Tracker 7.52 Setup

Since I always need to go back to my email to find out the instructions of how to set up the server, here are the settings we need at DynaVox to make Tracker work properly. (More)
Posted by jondaley on August 1, 2005, 4:01 pm | Read 2029 times | Comments (3)
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Credit Card Processing

I had figured it would be too expensive for Lime Daley to accept credit cards, but Citibank recently sent an advertisement that they did card processing that didn't have annual fees. Presumably, they have higher transaction fees to make up for that, but no, they don't! They don't have annual fees, just monthly fees. When I questioned the lady on that, she said that that was completely different, and so it wasn't really misleading.
I have a new web hosting service, without monthly fees, it costs 0.0 cents/minute to host. Note, there may be small errors due to rounding. (More)
Posted by jondaley on July 28, 2005, 4:29 pm | Read 554 times | Comments (0)
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Video Projector

After a lot of deliberation, we (mostly myself, as Heather thinks it is neat, but not really worth the money) decided to get a movie projector, screen and surround sound system. It is a fair amount of money, but is fun. (More)
Posted by jondaley on July 26, 2005, 2:26 pm | Read 540 times | Comments (0)
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Internet Searching

It seems that lots of people have trouble typing in keywords into search engines that result in the hits that they want. Every once in a while I have to go to the second page of results, but generally things are available on the first page. (More)
Posted by jondaley on June 22, 2005, 2:57 pm | Read 670 times | Comments (0)
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The Itsy Bitsy Spider

I have come to a new appreciation of that little spider. When I was a child I always thought it was a rather stupid creature not aware of its surroundings, just blindly walking into a place that was obviously not safe.

However, as I think about it now, I find that spider to be a model of perseverance, patience, sticking to its goals even through setback and hardship. What a difference a little life experience makes to my perspective!
Posted by joyful on June 21, 2005, 2:07 pm | Read 557 times | Comments (0)
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Incredibles

I was reminded of the Incredibles today by a slashdot article, and I went looking for the "Everyone's special, Dash." "That's just another way of saying nobody is." quote, and came across this guy's review of the movie. Interesting.
Posted by jondaley on June 9, 2005, 8:11 am | Read 650 times | Comments (1)
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Music Meme

I had heard of memes before, hadn't paid much attention until Adrian Drury mentioned it a couple weeks ago on snurgle, and today I noticed a post on Oscar's blog inviting me to participate. (More)
Posted by jondaley on June 2, 2005, 7:26 am | Read 1263 times | Comments (4)
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Ergonomics

At my last job, I discovered that after I gradually developed some pain in my shoulders that my desk needed to be raised. When I got to DynaVox, I raised my chair and desk approximately 4 inches.
My monitor is raised an additional 4 inches, based on the advice of some ergonomic web site that said the top of the viewable monitor should be even with your eyes. (More)
Posted by jondaley on May 27, 2005, 1:37 pm | Read 622 times | Comments (0)
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Extra Life

In the Electronic Engineering Times this week: The skills needed to defeat Bowser are similar to those required of laparoscopic surgeons, contends Dr. James Rosser, developer of a videogame for surgical trainees. (More)
Posted by jondaley on May 3, 2005, 10:00 am | Read 615 times | Comments (2)
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Light Beer

We went late to a party the other week and also stayed late to help clean up. It turns out that this year the guests were not beer drinkers, so the host had lots left over. He was not unhappy about that, but he did have a few bottles of light beer that he lamented still having. I offered to take a couple of bottles to try in fondue. (More)
Posted by joyful on March 22, 2005, 4:21 pm | Read 661 times | Comments (1)
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