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Recovered from host server upgrade – sorry for the outage

11December2008GeekTieGuyPersonal, Software

Looks like my hosting company decided to move my blog from a 32 bit OS to a 64 bit OS, breaking the PHP CGI in the process. Thus, my blog was offline for around 20 hours or so (rough guess). Support claimed I had a “custom” PHP install, which I think is not the case.

Word 2007 and Vista Speech Recognition – don’t say "delete document"!

10December2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsMicrosoft, Personal, Software, Vista

I had a very unpleasant experience today. My wife is trying to deal with pain in her arms and hands from too much typing by using Vista’s speech recognition feature along with Word 2007. She was writing a final paper for a college class and had just finished the last four of nine pages. That’s

Something different for your kids’ Christmas gifts this year: Boomerang, the audio magazine for children

12October2008GeekTieGuyPersonal

This is something that has come back in popularity in my family recently: Boomerang, the audio magazine for kids aged 6-12. It’s a really interesting concept, in that it tries to introduce kids to "big ideas" through all kinds of interesting angles. Here are some of the topics they cover in their productions: Natural Wonder

A Geekdad Experiment: What Gears Do On a Bicycle

27September2008GeekTieGuyPersonal

I did this the other day with my kids, and they thought it was a lot of fun. It’s a simple experiment to do with your kids when they ask what the gears on a bicycle do. You’ll need: A bike with gears Sidewalk chalk A measuring tape or stick Paper for keeping a table

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Recovered from host server upgrade – sorry for the outage

Word 2007 and Vista Speech Recognition – don’t say "delete document"!

Something different for your kids’ Christmas gifts this year: Boomerang, the audio magazine for children

A Geekdad Experiment: What Gears Do On a Bicycle