July 25, 2008: So We Bought a House…

Little Lulu Moppet lives at 22 Main Street in Meadowville (aka Peekskill, New York.) Little Lulu is a classic American comic strip character from the 1930s. The rain is gone and the hot, humid weather is back in force in the New York Metro area. Not only is it hot today but tomorrow and Sunday …

Installing Fedora 9 Linux in VirtualPC

If you are using Microsoft’s VirtualPC 2007 as a host for installing Red Hat’s Fedora 9 Linux (aka Sulphur) distribution you may have run into a few problems.  The first problem that plagues just about anyone attempting to install the latest versions of Linux (not just Fedora) is that of auto-detected virtualization.  To overcome this …

July 24, 2008: No Wonder the Housing Market is Tanking

Oreo made me walk him at almost two in the morning.  This late night walking is getting really old.  We had to go for a long walk too – out around the block.  Way more than I was wanting to do in the middle of the night.  Oreo’s routine is to wait until I am …

July 23, 2008: Waffle House and Water Guns

“Stripes aims to provide an experience similar to owning Apple hardware, Sony TVs and luxury German cars…” – Stripes for Java Website. I was not ready to get up when the alarm went off this morning. Oreo was very snuggly and I was still quite sleepy. Five thirty is too early for me this week. …