Wireless Routers – oh the joy
Finally dumped my Netgear WGT624 v2 Wireless Firewall Router today. Since purchasing based on excellent reviews we had had issues with dropped connections and with machines returning from sleep mode being unable to connect. Talks with […]
Microsoft BDD 2007
Notes to self as I navigate the Microsoft BDD 2007 Process Trying to build a Reference image I ran into the Red Screen of Death on boot after building a Lite Touch image for Capture. Building […]
Windows Photo Gallery – Color Issue
Do your photos display with an odd brownish orange tint in Vista’s WPG – Windows Photo Gallery but look fine in any other program? Yeah me too. The issue appears to be the default ICC Color […]
Beastie Boys – Gala Event Chicago 2007
Beasties Boys Gala Event Live at the Riviera Theater – Chicago, 9/26/2007 I was invited to see the Beastie Boys Gala Event Tour at the insistence of my work/life/music bud Curt and I was like… the […]
2007 USPro Criterium Championship
Downers Grove, IL 2007 – The Chicagoland area has been a little Seattle of late – wet. Very wet. Mow the lawn in August wet. No scorched earth brown heat wave grass anywhere to be found […]
Internet Explorer 7 wish list for SP1
As a user – I started out with Mosaic and then moved to Netscape as my primary browser. Then IE5 came out. IE3 was lame, IE4 was okay, IE5 was a sign Microsoft had finally realized […]
Global warming – Intelligent Design proves it
How does Intelligent design prove Global Warming? It goes like this. I bought a POS MTD Yardmaster Riding Mower, it was built by pre-teens in some Asia minor country for sure, but designed by humans none […]
Windows Vista – Logon Process Initialization Failure
Error message when Windows loads – “Logon Process Initialization Failure”
– Interactive logon process initialization has failed
– Please consult the event log for more details (I would love to but uh I can’t)
Beer in a can and twistys too…
I was indoctrinated into thee land of non crappy mass consumption beer during my college days at a certain Midwest university. Around 1986 or so we were one of only two towns in the nation stocking […]




