Author: George

I have been in the IT profession over 27 years. Most of my experience was providing Workstation / Desktop support for several clients.

Sports Steelers

Steelers Move onto AFC Championship

Post author By George
Post date January 16, 2011
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Last night The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Baltimore Ravens 31-24 and advance to the AFC Championship game. This is the fifth time the Steelers play for an AFC Championship game in the last ten years.

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 9-2 in his career against the Baltimore Ravens.

Today I will be cheering for the New York Jets to beat the New England Patriots. With a Jets win, the AFC Championship game will be played at Heinz Field.

The last Steelers game I attended was the AFC Championship against the Ravens on January 18th 2009. I’ll have to see if I can get tickets if the Jets win.

Joe Flacco was sacked four times in the second half and the Steelers held the Ravens to only three points after halftime.

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Wordpress

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 5 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 54 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 162 posts. There were 23 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was July 28th with 224 views. The most popular post that day was IMG_004.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were repairpal.com, joshuamaher.com, ehow.com, ifreestores.com, and google.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for logout icon, windows 7 steelers theme, steelers windows 7 theme, subaru outback cabin air filter replacement, and log out icon.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

How to Replace the Cabin Air Filter in a 2007 Subaru Outback July 2009
23 comments

Logout Icons on Ubuntu Desktop May 2009

Steelers Desktop Theme for Windows 7 November 2009
10 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

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American Holidays Christmas Motorola Droid Sager Skype Ubuntu Video Windows 7

Merry Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas everyone! And for those who do not celebrate Christmas, Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays!

As I write this,I am watching my son play with his Stealth Flyer II Micro wireless helicopter and my daughter playing with the Leapster Explorer. The kids had a great Christmas. They got up about 6:30 AM, which is not too bad. I remember getting up at 5:00 AM and trying to get my parents out of bed to open gifts Santa Claus brought. One disappointment was the Leapster game we bought, no game cartridge was inside. Not to happy with the LeapFrog company right now. I wonder how my return experience at Best Buy will be?

I also have been using using Skype video to talk with my in-laws. For some reason I had the wrong sound card set for Ubuntu which cause the internal mic not to work. No problems, I rebooted into Windows 7 and ran Skype for our call. After the call, I rebooted back into Ubuntu and researched the problem. That’s when I found out I had the wrong profile. I switched to Analog Stereo Duplex enabled me to select the internal mic. I tested using the Droid with my account and Ubuntu with my wife’s account. Audio and texting worked, now I’m ready for my next call.

Tonight we’ll have spiral cut ham, scalloped potatoes, and green beans for dinner. Maybe we’ll drive around the neighborhood to see all the lights one the houses, watch some movies, and play some more games. Either way I am enjoying my days off with the family.

UPDATE:

On December 26th I waited in line at Best Buy to return the LeapFrog game and explain the situation. After listening to the manager tell me he will do me the favor since I bought the game at another Best Buy store, he exchanged it for me. He made it seem like it was a huge inconvenience. Now my daughter can enjoy the Leapster Explorer.

Tags American Holidays, Christmas, Motorola Droid, Sager, Skype, Ubuntu, Video, Windows 7

Humor Video

Wiley Vs. Roadrunner Video

Post author By George
Post date December 4, 2010
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Saw this on HowtoGeek this morning. Wiley and Roadrunner cartoons were some of my favorites when I was a kid.

Sports Steelers Windows 7

Updated Steelers Desktop Theme for Windows 7

Post author By George
Post date November 25, 2010
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I’ve added 4 new pictures to the Steelers Theme I created for my Windows 7 PC. You can find the theme Pittsburgh_Steelers_Win7_2010.zip, in my Box.net plugin on the sidebar of this blog.

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American Holidays Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving 2010

"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth"... — Image via Wikipedia

This year we are having some family over to visit and celebrate Thanksgiving. Like everyone, we will have turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, stuffing, green beans, peas, carrots, corn on the cob for the kids, and all the trimmings. There will be pies, cakes, and ice-cream cones (for the kids).

I purchased from the local Kitchen and Company store Cafe Express Milk Hot Chocolate for the kids and Pumpkin Spice Coffee for my Keurig machine. Both will go great with dessert.

I found a Turkey in Disguise at Family Fun 3d paper craft the kids might enjoy making. Giving them a fun project to will keep them busy and out of the kitchen while dinner is is being made.

During dinner we ask the kids what they are thankful for. Myself, I am thankful for my family, friends and living in the USA. We had a pretty good year. They kids are are in good health, doing well in school and have lots of friends. Their grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins are doing well. We’ve enjoyed camping, riding bikes, and playing at the pool.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Linux Stuff LinuxMint Software Windows 7

Linux Mint 10 Julia

Linux Mint 10 is here! I installed the DVD version onto my 16GB Flash drive using the updates Universal USB installer 1.8.1.2. I had to increase the primary partition to 1024MB (1GB) to accommodate the full DVD install. I also created a new casper-rw partition on the remain space, plus modified the Shutdown Policy from USB. I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4 and chntpw (both of which can be installed from Software Manager), and I still need to install a few other apps like Google Chrome and Filezilla.

I forgot to copy the DVD ISO to my drive last night so I am downloading while writing this post. I plan on updating my production PC this week so I can run Windows 7 in a VM to provide support to my customers. I don’t expect any problems with installing the new OS. Just remember, always backup your data before installing a new OS.

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American Holidays

Happy Halloween 2010

Happy Halloween everyone!

We carved our pumpkins and Hubbard squash, roasted the pumpkin seeds, and decorated the house. Tonight I’ll be celebrating Halloween by taking my kids around the neighborhood in their costumes. Afterwards, a nice get together with some friends. Remember to watch out for kids who will be running around the neighborhoods and always check the candy before letting the kids eat them.

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