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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

If you’re a visitor to this site more than occasionally, you’ll probably note that (a) the system has been down for a few days and (b) that this blog has gone through a few changes. Well, there’s a good reason for that. I’ll keep the gory details behind a cut at the bottom of this entry… but what else is new? Well, I almost hate to admit it, but not

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

Well, I did it. As I said in my earlier posting, I’m switching to an Apple Macbook Pro. Well, this week I placed the order and went ahead and bought myself my first Mac laptop. So after four days with the Macbook Pro, what’s my feeling so far? Well, it’s a really nice little machine. I love the wide, bright and easily readable screen as well as the keyboard that

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

This is it, I’m finally going to do it. I’m going to switch. For those unfamiliar, Apple had a big marketing campaign about two years ago now to “switch”, i.e. to change from the Windows platform to the Mac platform. This campaign actually met with a modicum of success, at least in part based on the integration Macs have with the very successful iPod. Sure, you’ve got iTunes on Windows

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

I don’t know if anyone really realizes how alone one can be at this time of year. It’s the 4th of July, and to me this is actually one of the toughest times of year. I came to this country almost 11 years ago now… so this is now 10 times I’ve lived through the 4th of July. It’s interesting, and it’s also sort of depressing. Even my wonderful wife,

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

I almost can’t believe I had to do this, but I’m so tired of “spam comments” being posted to this blog that I’ve written a little cron job that’ll erase every comment nightly in the database that contains a hyperlink. So if you’re going to comment, don’t put any links in your posting! You have been warned 🙂

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

Do you know how difficult it is to find parts for a 1991 Honda Nighthawk???? At least, it’s tricky to find parts that usually come stock, and usually last as long as the bike! Finding replacement handlebars for my bike has proven to be a royal bear. Let me preface this by pointing out that I was very happy with the handlebars on my bike up until my little accident.

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

Just for anyone who’s interested, I’m in Colorado this week. Two weeks ago I was in Tucson, AZ. Yes, I’m traveling a lot on business these days. Business trips are sort of cool… sort of suck. This one was a last minute deal, literally. I found out at 2pm on Monday I was coming out here, I flew out at 8:30am on Tuesday. Talk about last minute scramble to plan

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

Greetings and salutations… and welcome again to my site. Hopefully the last two months have been good to you, I know mine have been busy as all hell! So what’s up? Well, nothing really. Life’s just been so hectic I’ve not had time to post to my blog… or generally keep up with email… well actually I’ve not really used my computer much in the last few months, truth be

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

You know, the nice thing about technological quandries is simply that there’s usually a solution around that fits both sides of the quandry. From my post the other day you can tell that I was in two minds of what to do regarding my router, Vonage and so forth. My decision was between building a new Linux-based firewall, or buying a firewall that had some more advanced functions (QoS). So

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• This hasn't been a great trip for #foodporn but let's change that with an Airline Chicken from #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• Last time I ate here, I had just said goodbye to @angelao2 at her memorial in Moore and had some amazing food and a cocktail. Raising a glass to my old friend and enjoying the food here again #picassosonpaseo #oklahomacity #oklahoma - October 28, 2021
• This is Nanuq's look of "How dare you move my toy from where I left it!" #stlnanuq #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - October 27, 2021

So I have recently pulled the trigger on another emerging technology. Hey, this is the blog of a geek, what do you expect? So what have I done this time? Xbox 360? Nah, I’ve changed my phone service to Vonage. For those that don’t know, Vonage is a Voice over IP service that basically promises you better phone rates, both local and long distance. They do this by utilizing the