I know this is late news, but I meant to post this video as soon as I saw it on Monday. The Texas A&M Fightin’ Aggies defeated the t.u. longhorns 12 to 7 in a major upset at the annual day-after-Thanksgiving football game. The following video is a great clip of highlights from the game. Enjoy!
Add comment November 30th, 2006
Trey and I were just looking at the source for a web site on his computer and I was amazed at the beautiful and easy-to-read source he was looking at. He was using the View Source Chart extension for Firefox, which I now think is a must have for web developers. The link to the 2.5.02 version of the extension is here, but the author’s page has version 2.6 that you can pay $3 for and will show collapsible JavaScript blocks. The $3 is good for all future upgrades AND can come with your own CSS to style the source.
1 comment November 17th, 2006
I have to agree with Trey that Heroes is definitely my new favorite show on TV. It has barely edged out Lost, but only because Lost has become so convoluted. I’m really only writing this to test sending a trackback to another blog and decided that Trey’s blog would be a good candidate! 
Let’s see if this works!
1 comment November 16th, 2006
Some I discovered recently, which I thought I should share, is that Firefox automatically backs up your bookmarks file every day for 5 days. This information came in handy recently when my father-in-law told me he lost all of his bookmarks. Something was corrupt with his profile, but his bookmarks were still there! To find the backups in Windows XP, go to C:\Documents and Settings\[your profile name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[firefox profile name]\bookmarkbackups and you’ll see the last five days worth of bookmark backups.
Add comment November 15th, 2006
I upgraded my home server to Ubuntu’s latest release, Edgy Eft, about a week ago.┬á Everything went fine, as expected, except one issue:┬á every time I ran apt-get dist-upgrade, it would say that a bunch of python packages and the hpjis package were being held back.┬á After a quick Google search, I found this forum post, which advised to use the aptitude program.┬á Using aptitude took some getting used to, but after applying updates with it, my package dependency issues were resolved!┬á Thanks goes to Ziox, the ubuntuforums.org member that recommended aptitude.
1 comment November 7th, 2006
Welcome to this blog’s new address!!! The move was pretty painless, with the exception of downgrading from MySQL 4 to MySQL 3, but that only produced a few weird characters in my posts which are now gone. Hopefully those that subscribed or visited the old address are now seeing this, and I promise I won’t make another move anytime soon! I’m really excited to have a reliable host now, instead of hosting this from my home server.
Add comment October 1st, 2006
Well, I can say that I’m very happy with the switch of my blog feed to FeedBurner. I get to see a much clearer picture of who my “subscribers” are, and I also get a lot of features to play with on my feed. I’m not going to activate or use them all just yet, but some of them do sound intriguing. One that I am going to test out is the Email Subscription Service. Over on my sidebar (currently on the right), I’ve placed a Subscribe section. If you don’t use an RSS feed reader (also called news aggregator), such as Bloglines or Newsgator or even My Yahoo, then you can be notified of new posts via e-mail.
I think this is good for people that just don’t want to take the plunge to use a feed reader. If you are a person that doesn’t regularly check web sites or use the Internet, then this is definitely for you. However, if you are using the Internet as part of your daily routine, then you really need to check out a feed reader. I highly recommend Bloglines, but there are a variety of others that might suit your taste.
Add comment September 18th, 2006
Since, I am in the beginning stages of moving my blog and photo gallery off of my current server, I was looking for a way to switch over to using Feedburner as my primary blog feed. This way, if my blog ever changes servers again, no one will have to update their feed. This is assuming I have some sort of reader base, which I’m sure is only up to 1, at this point.
Anyway, I found a nifty little plugin for Wordpress called FeedBurner Plugin by Ordered List. I simply download, activate, go to my admin page, click Options, fill in my FeedBurner feeds for entries and comments, click Save. So, I’m basically writing this post to see if it works when I check my blog on Bloglines.
If you do subscribe to this blog, please update update your feed reader to point to http://feeds.feedburner.com/milkduds for blog entires and http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForMilkduds for comments. I’ve already updated the feed links on the right as well. Also keep in mind that this blog will soon be moving to a new URL, so updating your reader will help during that transition. Hopefully, I’ll be making a post soon about what that new URL will be.
Add comment September 15th, 2006
This is a follow-up to my original post about Firefox 2.0 Beta 2. I decided not to update that post since this post will have quite a bit of information and is basically a separate topic.
After installing the beta and discovering that most of my extensions weren’t compatible, I installed the Nightly Tester Tools extension to make them all compatible. Bad idea. Now, I can only use the beta of Firefox for about 30 minutes, where it will crash on a random action on a random page. I’m certain that one of my extensions is causing the problem, opposed to the browser itself. However, I can not undo the action of clicking the “make all compatible” button that the NTT extension put on my Add-ons window.
So, my first trip is to the mozillazine forums, where I found this post asking for feedback on the beta. I’ve posted a reply to that post and am currently waiting for feedback on my issue. Until then, I’m back to using Firefox 1.5. 
UPDATE: Thanks to a helpful person on the mozillazine forums, I’m back using Beta 2. This reply to the above forum topic explains that all I needed to do was delete the extensions.rdf file in the extensions folder of my profile. After doing that, all of my incompatible extensions were disabled. Now my only job is to enable them one at a time until a culprit is discovered.
Add comment September 12th, 2006
2 posts in 1 day?!?!?! Ok, just a bit of info to share and to record in case I forget someday. I am switching from using ClarkConnect to Ubuntu for my home server, and have also decided to put my printer on the computer that will always be on, instead of my heat-generating AMD 64. I thought installing a printer and sharing it on my network would be easy as pie with Ubuntu. Well, only half of that was easy, which was the installing part. The other half was almost as easy, and only took a bit of Googling. After following the instructions on this page, I was printing from every machine in my house easier than with Windows XP!
1 comment September 11th, 2006
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