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First Post on New Site
This is the first post on this new site. Our old web site (circa 2007) was a home brew affair running on an old Pentium 166 that I bought for $1.00 around 2001. That machine was so old the BIOS wouldn’t let it boot from the CD-ROM drive. I wanted to load Linux on it […]
Enon Hall Restoration
I tripped over this really interesting web site about a family from Richmond who bought and is restoring thier ancestral home in the Northern Neck of Virginia. Check it out at Enon Hall Journal .
European Vacation
We just returned from a 3 week vacation in Europe. We went to a wedding in Switzerland, stayed at an Agri-tourismo in Italy, and went on an 11 day Meditarranean cruise aboard the SS Disney Magic. It was a great time and will probably go down in history as the greatest vacation ever.
RIAD Storage Server
Even though I have two 200GB hard drives in my Windows XP workstation (in addition to the 72GB “system” drive), my hard disk space was being comsumed with media (avi, mpeg, wav, mp3, etc.). One of the 200GB drives was dedicated to online backup but I had no good way take the buckups offline (i.e. […]
Ronald Reagan Funeral
In June we attended President Reagan’s funeral in the Nation’s capitol. The crowds were huge. After watching the funeral procession move up Constitution toward the Capitol building, I walked down the Mall to wait in line to go into the Capitol. As you left the Rotunda, they handed out a card commemorating the event.
