Once in a while I am presented with empirical evidence that suggests, at least to a degree, I must be maturing. I know, I know…I think it’s strange, too. Last week I was at Fitworks in Rocky River performing the mindless exercises that remind me of my mediocre physical condition. In the middle of four … Continue reading “Restraint”
A half marathon, that is. And I use the term “running” loosely because for me it was more like shuffling. Or maybe plodding. I partook in such an event in Cleveland this past May after implementing an innovative training method. The crux of this method: run the distance of the half marathon (13.1 miles) in … Continue reading “When You Have No Business Running”
When life throws you the proverbial curve, there’s nothing wrong with taking a pitch…or two. Sometimes I feel as if I always swing.
Yeah, yeah. So anyone who knows me is going to chuckle at the thought of me writing about initiative, but hear me out. I will be the first to admit there are plenty of individuals out there more driven than me; I’m okay with that. But consider this: perhaps my fleeting encounters with initiative provide … Continue reading “Initiative”
I sometimes like to make shortcuts to various folders on my Windows machine. I am annoyed, though, that when executed, this shortcut brings up an explorer window without the folder tree on the left. I found the solution to this here: shortcut with folder tree In short, the command line in your shortcut should read %SystemRoot%\EXPLORER.EXE … Continue reading “Windows Explorer Folder Shortcuts”
I just can’t get into her. Hillary, I mean. I think much of my sentiment can be summed up by events during a recent visit to my folks’ place on the east side of town. I was spending the night and, as is often customary when doing so, headed downstairs to watch some T.V. with … Continue reading “About Hillary (Oh, Alright…and Obama)”
Today I woke up and got ready for work. I drove my compact car from my suburban home to the office. I worked in my cubicle on the computer until lunch. I ate a sandwich and vegetables for lunch. I worked in my cubicle until it was time to go home. I came home and … Continue reading “Blog Entry”
Ever click on a hyperlink to a MS Office document and watch it open awkwardly in Internet Explorer, with all sorts of wonky results? I have. As kind as Microsoft is, they have a knowledge base entry addressing the problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q162059/
I was recently posed with the question of whether or not you could hyperlink (yeah, I’m using the term as a verb) to a specific page of a PDF. In looking around, I am under the impression this can be done if the PDF resides on a web server by adding “#page=2” to the hyperlink … Continue reading “Hyperlink to Specific Page of PDF”
I discovered today that Samba appears to be uncooperative when trying to connect from a single machine to two or more of its shares using different user names. This is a probably a pretty esoteric problem, I realize, but came into play when I was troubleshooting another user’s account without disconnecting shares mounted under my … Continue reading “Samba and Multiple Concurrent User Names”