The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I need to take a break from griping about my computer troubles, so now I’m going to gripe about our cat, Max.
I shouldn’t gripe, actually. This cat supplies us with a lot of entettainment, as well as reason to wonder […]

…and it’s doing a WONDERFUL job of it!
I have tried to install Ubuntu Linux as part of a dual-boot on my desktop computer no less than SEVEN times. Here is the tutorial I am using as a guide.
All I can get it to do is sit and wave that blinding neon orange (YUK) bar back […]

Looking at the title of this post, would you care to venture a guess as to what my mood is like right now? Here are the details about what happened, since you asked. Didn’t ask? Sure you did. Shut up and read.
I found this tutorial explaining how to dual boot linux and XP when XP […]

The other day I was looking for a suggestion for rearranging partitions so I could dual boot my desktop machine. One person suggested I boot from Ubuntu’s LiveCD and use the partition editor included there, so I looked into that possibility last night and remembered a problem I have with that drive.
The reason my primary […]

Recently I got the chance to fiddle around with Ubuntu Linux and I kind of like it. I liked it enough that I’d like to install it on my desktop machine so I can actually use the real thing instead of a live CD or a virtual machine. However, I’m not sure I like it […]

I was wandering around on snopes.com just now because I find that site a little bit addictive. I picked up a bit of trivia that is both interesting and slightly disgusting. It seems that around the beginning of the 20th century some companies were advertising diet pills that worked because the capsule actually contained a […]

It occurred to me that I haven’t posted any bizarre news on here in quite a long time, so I went looking around on snopes.com and was referred to this gem.
No names have been published in connection to this article, but apparently a woman described as “upwards of 90 years of age” was found living […]

I must be the luckiest person alive. At least, that’s what some people might have thought if they had seen my inbox this morning. I had exactly three emails waiting:
Email number one declared that I had won some sort of sweepstakes without even entering. The prize was 1.5 million British pounds. At the current exchange […]

As long as I’m going on about Granddaughter Number One, I just have to mention her book. My wife was selected by frecklebox.com to review their personalized gifts for children. They took our granddaughter’s name and sent her a personalized book.
To be honest, I expected one of those “personalized” books that are of such low […]

I cannot believe how big Granddaughter Number One is getting. The first time we put her in her walker, she had to have a rolled-up towel to pad the thing with because she could barely hold up her head. Her feet wouldn’t reach the floor and she really wasn’t the least bit interested in the […]