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I configured the iBook to share its wired network connection through its Airport connection and gave the connection a name and password. Nothing worked. The iBook didn’t show up on the list of iPad WiFi connections. I tried to disable the built-in firewall on the iBook and got…

I don’t normally blog about computer games other than those that I am designing to want to design. This is an exception because I have some comments about Battlefield 3 and I think it is worth making a note about them. Battlefield 3 is a first person shooter…

Although I did no real work of any sort and have no new information to share, I do think a post is in order: I’m back from two weeks of vacation. It seemed like more than that for some reason. I plan on working only a little more…

First; is “Folder” really the new “Directory”? I never know which to write these days. Second; don’t set up an FTP server and and then use the file system to change the name of a users home directory. The FTP server won’t know about the name change. Maybe…

I discovered an odd feature of the mobile Safari browser on IOS 5 on my iPad. I suspect that this is the same for the iPhone and iPod as well. If a page is set up so that it takes 100% of the screen and then the page…

I am trying an iPad app for blogging. This one called BE Write seems to work ok. I’ll know more after I try it for a while. So far, the only problem is tha it won’t wok in landscape mode and it’s hard to type on the smaller…

I just created an account at http://freedns.afraid.org and then created a subdomain using one of their existing domains. Now ———— points to whatever system I want it to point to. It worked with my system at work and immediately showed up with my WAN address (router address, not…

I’m testing Windows Live Writer to see how it works with my blog. The preview that looks like my Blog is very cool although the real test will be using it for writing a real blog entry. Oh, wait, I’m writing a real blog entry now. Testing in…

This is a copy of a post I made on paddling.net. This is a not-too-short trip report. It is about paddling along the coast and then watching as my inexperienced friend decide to catch a wave or two. We started at Mission Bay in San Diego. We paddled…

“Circumnavigate” is an interesting word. I’m not sure it is applicable to paddling around the perimeter of a lake as opposed to paddling around the outside of an island or continent. In the link below, the map will be centered on Lake Tahoe. Donner lake is the small…