Lindsborg House Update

Between work, packing and just sorting all the details related to buying a house in Lindsborg, I just haven’t had much time for posting. The last week has been very interesting, stressful, exciting and ultimately fulfilling. We started with a flood insurance quote of 3000 dollars, and ended the week with a …

Things are progressing well with our Lindsborg house purchase; the closing is still scheduled for the end of August. Various minor issues have arisen after the inspections, and they are being resolved; the bankers always have another doc request, but overall I’m pleased with how things are going.Of …

This weekend marked the closing of one chapter of our lives as we continue preparations to move back to Lindsborg.
We took down all of our fish tanks, and like they’ve been for the past 10 years, Brian’s Fish World was there for …

Night Sky Live is an interesting website that chronicles the efforts of a group whose goal "is to create a useful continuous record of the night sky". The worldwide system is built around small fisheye lens cameras that are controlled by laptop computers and deployed at major observatories around the world. …

The image above is just one of the many displayed at this Korean blogger’s site. The stunning aerial photos were taken by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and are some of the best I’ve ever seen! Turns out Bertrand has published a …

Setting up a new installation of Windows 2003 Server I saw a very strange message the first time I ran Internet Explorer. As the image below shows, there is a popup telling that says that the Enhanced Security Configuration is enabled. The popup appears over a webpage that cautions …

The update to the final release candidate of htmlArea went smoothly. Installation consisted of copying the new files into the existing htmlarea folder; testing consisted of hitting reload on the edit entry screen. That generated an error msg that was easily dealt with. The location of the software must be explicitly set …