Still can’t sync the Palm. The problem seems to be that I don’t have permission to access the serial port. I have chmod 777 the port, and I added my user account to the root group since root owns the port. That should have fixed it but it didn’t. I gue…

I’m banished to the basement tonight. The homeschooling moms monthly night out is a pot luck here at ODonnellWeb world headquarters. I watched American Idol, that Marine can sing. I have to think his value as a recruiter far exceeds his value as a comb…

From Linux!! I have spent the better part of the last 24 hours fighting network configuration issues in Red Hat 8.0
I started with a brand new computer, Celeron 1.7 GHZ, 256MB RAM. I installed Windows XP first in a 20 GB partition. It went flawlessly. …

This article at Slashdot crystallized why blogs have re-energized the Web for me. Before the general public had access to the Internet, I was a BBS nerd. I never ran my own, but I spent a lot of time dialing in to BBS’ in Atlanta. I was a paid member o…

Babysitter sick
Quiet dinner with wife out
Dinner with kids in