Welcome to my Rants

Happy Thanksgiving

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:53:20 +0000

Texas Freeze

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:00:10 +0000

Freezing temperatures has left our yard and flower beds a disaster. Landscaper wants an arm and leg to repair. Today started cleaning out the dead and getting to repair the loss.

Discount Tire – Again

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:13:46 +0000

I have spent too much time at Discount Tire lately. Just glad I bought the road hazard insurance.

I want that job

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:12:46 +0000

The grass is always greener on the other side and looking at the title of this book it makes me think. What a great job this would be! How nice would it be to travel around and sample the different beers of the world. I must admit a recent trip to St Louis had me at the Anheuser-Busch brewery and taking the brew master class which was a blast. Not only did we sample the various beers but the instructor talked about how to taste beer (not just chugging) and the different brewing techniques.

The grass is greener on the other side and this looks freshly fertilized and watered to perfection.

Viruses, malware and worms

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:08:24 +0000

Was up at 2:30am due to a message on my computer screen warning me it had detected several viruses on my computer. First look with my sleepy eyes I thought what is all this? It took a second glance to see the messages while they looked real were indeed fake. Someone did an excellent job designing this.

I know if I clicked on anything there would be a risk of this spreading and creating potentially further problems so I decided to find it, kill it, delete it by hand. After I finally found the program hidden in a directory and killed it dead I started a fresh virus scan (my real virus scan) and this morning I am working to remove the remaining crap left behind.

I did some research on this malware and found that had I clicked on the screens it would have spread further. There are people that after being hit with this particular version could no longer run any programs and their internet browser would only take them to the malware website asking for money.

No matter how secure you think you are there is a risk you can be infected.

Got lucky this time!

Its time for Change

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:51:22 +0000

Yes everyone its time for “Change”! This is not a political rant by no means but clearly it could be. This is not the Obama change to push us into Socialism. The change I am referring to is with this website. Yep time to move on and get a face lift.

Why change? I have been thinking about a change for some time but it wasn’t until blogger.com decided to end their support for me hosting my own site that I started looking around sooner vs later.

It took time as I wanted to preserve my old stuff and move into the current age. Well I was doing good until I ran into problems with the “current age” technology change I was looking for. This forced me to move my website from yahoo.com to another host. It took some time to find a host that would let me “play” the way I wanted to and I found this with hostgator.com.

OK now I have moved from blogger.com to WordPress, found a new host and decided to move my domain register from register.com to godaddy.com at the same time. Trying to coordinate all this took some time and after nearly two months of part time working here it is.

Now some good news…. I am now saving $$ by making the change. Cheaper domain name registration and cheaper web hosting. Its all good.

Welcome aboard and excuse the dust as I bring this site up to speed.