Random and Opinionated Thoughts

by: Jennifer Zelazny

Software

Google Blog Search

Well, google has a new beta product out there: Google Blog Search. Yeah, most blogs are included in Google’s search index, but if you want to exclusively search for blog posts, you now have that option. Pretty slick.

Life

Triscuit Update

Ah Triscuit. She is such a champ. She now officially loves using a pillow (like in the picture from yesterday’s post), and is not limping as bad as Sunday. Of course, she walks perfect when other dogs are around, but getting up out of bed is still a little hard. She does not too much […]

Life

Triscuit

Well, after deciding we needed to treat Triscuit to a nice fun day, we packed up the car and took her to a local dog training club that was having a “Save the miniature pinchers” fundraiser. For a small fee, you could have your dog partake in lure coursing. Since Triscuit is a retired racer […]

Apple UNIX

podcasts, nano, emacs, vps, and magnetic poetry.

podcasts: I am a workaholic. I stop to take the dog out, eat, and watch Guiding Light. My grandmother listened to it on the radio. My mother watched it on the TV, and now, I can make the next jump in technology…CBS is now offering each episode as a podcast. iPod nano: Good work Apple. […]

Hosting jappler.com

a new day, another host.

Jappler.com will be moving to a new host ASAP. I have been moving hosts for awhile now…and thought I had a good one: hostgator.com. After some downtime and idiotic conversation with the “support”, I decided I deserved better and needed to be able to take more responsiblity for my web presence. I decided to go, […]

Apple Serenity Now!

crazy safari.

Not sure if anyone else has accidentally done what I just did, but I got a kick out of it and thought I would share. I looking at a web site in Safari and decided I wanted to grab the URL and drag it onto my desktop for later use. Instead, I heard the “poof” […]

Serenity Now!

a good compromise.

I bought Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 4 today…and I wanted to share one of my favorite quotes from the season with everyone. “A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied.”

WordPress

finally updated to WP 1.5.2

After being a bit nervous about updating to the newest version of WordPress because of all the customizations I made (and then did not properly document) I finally decided to bite the bullet and update. I tried the upgrade on another test site and all went well, so I am finally up to date. Document, […]

Apple Hints

PowerBook/iBook Take Apart/Repair Guides.

I had the task of taking apart a friend’s Dual USB iBook, and since the hardware was not mine, I wanted to make sure I was careful and knew the shortest amount of steps to successfully upgrade her hardrive. I found a great resource I wanted to share called the FixIt Guide. You can choose […]

Serenity Now!

larry david moment: the metra station friendly stranger.

Yeah. I am a Seinfeld fan. I often give the name Elaine Benes when making reservations, and my vocabulary is full of words/statements that are from Seinfeld and Curb your Enthusiasm. I could have written an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with my thought process/actions yesterday…so I thought I would share. Some think it is […]

Games Life

That Time of Year

Well, I have one last weekend before the madness begins. The Penn State fight song and other Blue Band classics will be heard blasting from my office and iPod. My priorities shift…golf on Saturdays will take a back seat to college football. I, of course, love Penn State football and Joe Paterno, but living where […]