Category Archives: web stuff
A CSS styled table
I was searching for a way to style tables with css and came across this great blog post and example. I wanted to post it here in case I need to revisit it!
Website color update
Updated the website tonight to reflect the hot, hot weather we are having right now. It is after 9pm and it is over 85° outside. Too hot for me — we’ve got the AC on. Anyway, I switched out the … Continue reading
Expanding a ReadyNAS NV+ pt II
As a followup to the the last article I wrote, the expansion of the volume in the ReadyNAS worked as advertised. After getting all of the new 1TB drives switched in over the course of several days, the machine requested … Continue reading
Expanding a ReadyNAS NV+
When we bought a ReadyNAS NV+ at work a year ago we did it so that the graphics department could quickly access archived auction material over the LAN instead of digging back through books of DVDs. And it has worked … Continue reading
Oh widely traveled email
The path an email takes from sent to received is an interesting one. For instance, I am on a mailing list from the USDA where I get crop and livestock report updates for Indiana. The email comes to my work … Continue reading
AppleTV won’t update to 2.0
Although delayed, the AppleTV 2.0 update finally was released this week providing the capability to rent SD and HD movies from the couch. Last night I went ahead and tried to go through the update and found that (similar to … Continue reading
iPod Mini Battery Replacement
Back in 2005 (I think) Jill and I bought our G5 iMac and received a free 4GB iPod Mini from Apple which has been good to use in addition to our 1GB Shuffle. However, over the past year the battery … Continue reading
Declaration of Romantic Intent
I found a pretty funny website today — The Bureau of Communication. You can select different types of communication and do a Mad Libs‘ish fill-in-the-blanks. Here are the types they have: DECLARATION OF ROMANTIC INTENT — To reveal the extent … Continue reading
Re-Upgrading the AppleTV
Let me just say something that might come as a surprise to you: I didn’t follow the directions. I came close, but varied a little and now my AppleTV won’t update its software to 1.1 (or 2.0) leaving me with … Continue reading
Upgrading the AppleTV
Just wanted to post some links here that I used to upgrade the harddrive in our AppleTV from the 40GB it came with to a 100GB drive. There are many how-to guides available to walk through the process, but none … Continue reading