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Photo Comments Are Back

2008-08-19T08:20:08

Sorry it took so long, but I finally turned the comments back on in the Photos area. Not only can you see comments on photos, but you can make them too! You may have also noticed that you can browse all the photos that have comments by browsing Latest Comments The comments supports my own version of bbcode, which means that, among other things, you can make paragraphs by hitting the

enter key

on your keyboard.

I should be able to get the edit function back up shortly, so don't worry if you make a mistake.

Login Required For Photos

2008-08-12T16:14:58

I've changed the photos area to require a login now. Hopefully this won't cause a problem for the people who regularly check out the pictures. There's no specific cause for my change of policy. I just decided that the anonymous public doesn't need to have unrestricted access to my photos. Most of the photos you can see on this site are of my family, my friends and me and probably wouldn't be of interest to the random visitor to my site anyway.

Once again, all the photos are still there, you just have to login to see them. If you click on a link that requires access, you should be redirected to the login page. After you login, the site should send you through to the page you wanted to see.

Thanks for your understanding.

Drill Brush

2008-08-06T14:45:06

On lifehacker.com I saw a post about a drill brush that you can make yourself. I have looked at buying one of those Black & Decker scumbuster's before, but the price was just too much for me to pull the trigger. Now, thanks to the guy at sleepydoglabs I have one that I made myself. I got the little brush thingy at Target. They had cheaper ones but the OXO model seemed to be really solid, so I paid a little more for it.

Here's me and the final product:

Ben and Steph Really Take The Cake

2008-07-27T13:18:51

Check out this video of Ben and Steph cutting their cake at their wedding reception this weekend.

If you have a problem with the video being choppy, you may want to pause the video for a few seconds until the player can buffer some of the video. I have yet to figure out how to get Macromedia Flash 8 to make a movie that doesn't start playing the video automatically.

Checkout the pictures here:
Angela's Camera
Jen's Pictures

Dell Bluetooth Wireless Travel Mouse

2008-07-23T07:41:37

In my travels I happened across a Dell Bluetooth Wireless Travel Mouse, but I didn't get any drivers with it. Using the Dell part number: PU705, I searched high and low and was starting to lose hope. But then I found an ebay page that linked to some driver download page on Dell's site. The file itself was about 340MB. That is pretty big for a mouse driver. Of course, there is more in that download than just the mouse drivers that I need, so after downloading it I opened it up with WinRar, my favorite file zip/unzip program, and I looked around in the archive.

I eventually found a folder called drivers in a directory tree that led me to believe that it would have Windows XP stuff in it. Using WinRar, I extracted just the drivers directory and in the device manager, told it to Update Driver... for the device that wasn't installed correctly. When running the Update Driver... I told it to look in the drivers directory that I had extracted from the large compressed file that I had downloaded. Sure enough it found the Bluetooth Input Device driver in that directory.

After I installed the driver, it looked like everything was fine in the device manager, but the mouse was still not working. I then went into the Bluetooth places and disabled the mouse in there. After that, I put the mouse back into discover mode by holding down on the blue button on the bottom of the mouse for like 5 seconds or so until the mouse started flashing.

I then went back into My Bluetooth Places, clicked view all devices in range, and Connected to the mouse again. I clicked on the confirm button that popped up and everything was groovy. Mouse works great, although it is a little touchy, so I may have to turn down sensitivity.

If you are looking for the Windows XP driver for this mouse, you can try the one that I used:
btmousedrivers.zip