Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Solar Style Charger – Five Stars in My Book
One week ago I bought this solar charger from Solar Style. In that time, they’ve reduced the cost of the unit to $39.95, but I’m far from bitter. The reduction and a slight site re-design seem to be signs that the company is set to introduce its next generation of chargers. Perhaps something powerful enough [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Opinion / Current Events by Rana
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Rana’s Daemon?
I don’t usually answer these quiz things, but this one intrigued me. The published component blew the margins here, so I put the results up on Infinite Notebook. Click on over and weigh in on whether or not my Daemon fits my personality (as you perceive it.) It’s kind of fun and do visit the [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Misc by Rana
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
And Then A Crash Shattered the Silence
After everything I went through with the techno-fabric of my life last week, it should not have come as a surprise when my blog disappeared from the Internet for 24 hours this weekend. (Tech support apologized for any inconvenience.)
As I continue to sift through the metaphorical ashes of this experience I am finding some bright [...]
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
AirPort Extremus
For all of you who have emailed or twittered asking, yes, I am still alive and kicking and no, I have not killed any tech support drones. I am struggling to understand the long series of mistakes I made that created this past week in hell — not just for me, but for the housemates [...]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Hamster Driven Connection: Day 2
For a few minutes last night I thought my cable connection had returned, but it was just the company taunting a starving woman. I’m still on with my cell phone — an avenue for which I am grateful — but compared to my usual work pace, I’m slogging through sticky mud up to my armpits.
And [...]
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Quasi Service Outage
For the past 20 hours or so I’ve been experiencing an intermittent level of Internet outage although my cable modem shows fully lit power, connection, and activity lights. MissMeliss is having similar problems on a DSL connection and there appears to be a major router down in Dallas. I’m accessing via my cell phone and [...]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Google is Ruining Online Writing
Right now MissMeliss and I are re-doing a good bit of work we’ve already done in what I can only describe as kissing Google’s great big search engine backside. You see, the fear is that duplicated language may incur the wrath of Google thus sinking a website endeavor and bringing down the apocalypse.
I, like Tom [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Misc by Rana
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Earth Day: Quiet Sunday Morning Reflections
Only rarely do I rise as early as 7 a.m. Today I did so in an effort to gain some quiet working time. These past days my housemate has swung from episodes during which her anger at her disabilities bubbles over with hot intent to a neediness in the face of my busy work schedule [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Opinion / Current Events by Rana
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Lost from the Formation
As someone who has had the privilege of watching the Blue Angels perform and been moved to tears by the brilliance of their flying, I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of one of their pilots in South Carolina today. Let us all pause to think of Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis, the pilot [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Opinion / Current Events by Rana
Friday, April 20th, 2007
Prom Season
Me: What’s A. wearing to the prom?
M.H.: That dress she was wearing on our Christmas card.
Me: She didn’t want something new?
M.H.: We looked, but my God dresses are so expensive. There can be twelve dresses on the rack and she’ll walk right to the $500 one.
Me: Now come on. I’ve seen you in some pretty [...]
