Monthly Archives: June 2005

Tour de France Saturday through Wednesday

2005-06-30 – 12:35

The DirectTV with Tivo will be installed on Wednesday. How can I face watching four or five days of the Tour de France on live TV? Did I mention that race was our original reason for purchasing a Tivo? Maybe I’ll have to look in to this remote/infrared sensor issue after all, to get me […]

By frank | Posted in Cycling, Gadget | Comments (2)

Tivo remote bites the dust

2005-06-29 – 23:10

Our series 1 Tivo has exhibited a potentially fatal flaw. Since the weekend, the tivo has stopped responding to commands from the remote control. Reboots don’t help. Resetting the remote control according to the instructions in the Tivo forums doesn’t help. The remote still sends commands, as it is still able to control the television. […]

By frank | Posted in Cycling, Gadget | Comments (1)

Writing versus blogging

2005-06-28 – 07:50

John Gruber wrote some suggestions that he called “Writing for Google” in his blog, Daring Fireball. The suggestions are so far removed from the typical “hacking google” articles I’ve seen that I think they’re really general writing tips.
I can summarize it in four words: Get to the point!

By frank | Posted in Geek | Comments (0)

Working around Tiger IMAP Mail Problems

2005-06-28 – 07:44

I finally figured out how to get Mail.app 2.0 working well in Tiger. It should have been obvious to me, but it took me trying to live with both Thunderbird and Entourage for my mail. If you don’t already know this, let me be the first to tell you: both of those applications SUCK. The […]

By frank | Posted in Geek | Comments (0)

Informal swimming economics

2005-06-19 – 10:57

Every year in the early Spring, we get a notice to pay the dues for our neighborhood’s Homeowners Association. Last year, they took a vote to try to roll membership to the pool in to the annual dues, but thankfully that didn’t happen. The pool membership is on the order of a few hundred dollars, […]

By frank | Posted in Parenting | Comments (0)