The Coffee House, reloaded. Windows users may want Tinyfugue to connect. Then use Start->Programs->TinyFugue->TF to run it.

Mac Users can get TF 4.0s1 from that site, but when you mount the DMG, install only the TinyFugue.mpkg file, it installs the others for you. Then you …

Recently a few people have asked me how to open DOCX files, which are created in Word 2007 / Office 2007. I have found 4 solutions so far:

1. Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac is perhaps the canonical solution. It won't make new Office 2007 documents, but I …

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So, yesterday some of you may have noticed that sessrumnir.rootaction.net was down. Today you might notice that it's back up. I bet you are wondering what happened. Or not. That's ok, I'm going to give you the short version anyway. :)

The system experienced multiple concurrent physical failures. Specifically …

So, after much deliberation, I have installed Leopard. So far, I am quite encouraged. It "feels" a little zippier. It looks a little better (Apple has been slowly re-vamping the look since at least the release of Panther, and it's finally beginning to look consistent again.)

This is the ongoing …

i am so totally signing a petition to ban this.

two cleanups on my property in two years. totally done with it. up the irons!

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A friend of mine pointed me to a book swap site, where you just pay the shipping for books you want. I haven't figured out entirely how it all works nor had time to really browse it, but it sounds really neat...

They use some sort of point system, you …

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Today was a work day for me, as is most of this week. However, we are still up north and Monday night at Swift Field (in Bayview) is Hot Dog night. They have shirts that say "The Best Deal in Town"... You get two hot dogs and a can of …

We went to Mackinaw City today to see the Kite Festival. It was held in a park on S. Huron Ave, right on the water. The turnout was pretty good, and even though the wind didn't seem very strong down low there were plenty of lofty sights to see. Bill …