Archive for the ‘Technobabble’ Category
Digital Photography
So last weekend Pete and I went out to Buena Vista to climb Mount Hope and pick up Taco. I’ve already written all about our 50% success rate in last weekend’s endeavors, so I won’t bore any of you again with the extended details. Instead I thought I’d spend a few minutes outlining one of [...]
Windows® 7 + SCSI = Pain
For those of you who have been regular readers of the Gribblog, it’ll come as no surprise that we’ve been running the final release candidate of Windows® 7 (the 64-bit version) on our “new” computer since its birth early in 2009. I still haven’t gotten around to re-installing the now-available RTM version. That will happen [...]
Movin’ On Up!
That’s right Weezie, we’re movin’ on up. But not to the east side or some deluxe apartment in the sky. No, we just moved the Gribblog out from under the Northern Colorado Grotto’s website to our new home. For the time being, you’ll be automatically redirected from the old web address to this new address. [...]
Bring out the GIMP!
That’s right, I like GIMP—the GNU Image Manipulation Program, that is. It’s basically Photoshop® without the cost. Actually, the fine developers working on GIMP wouldn’t really like that description, but now you know what it does. Of course, like most pieces of advanced software, there is a somewhat steep learning curve, but with a little [...]
A New Computer!
It’s been about 7 years since Jess and I purchased a new computer. This doesn’t count a laptop I received a few years ago from work as a holiday bonus or a new netbook that Jess got this year for her birthday. It also doesn’t count a long succession of used machines rescued from the [...]