Skowronek

King of TAP Replacement Claims

I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t be too proud of this title, as I have, for the 3rd time, cracked the display on my PDA. I have nothing to say other than, break out the wallet-book. (It happened while slamming the rear door shut in the Pathfinder.)

Skowronek.org Gets a Face Lift

Not to confuse this with Nip-Tuck, but I finally got so sick of my old, blah design, that I spent some quality time and actually did a decent design. I was planning on migrating my posts and such into another format (i.e. WordPress or CommunityServer), but it was just taking too much time.

My ScanJet 3970 Debacle

Over the past couple of nights I have been battling a seriously messed up HP ScanJet 3970. The error: “Unable to communicate with the TWAIN device”. A once fully functional, trouble-free piece of electronic equipment turned maliciously evil. I write in hopes that someone out there will run across my finding BEFORE they spend hour upon painful hour attempting to troubleshoot the beast of burden.

Now, I don’t claim this will fix every ‘TWAIN’ communication error, but hopefully it will fix a few. Lets start shall we!
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Halo coming to the big screen

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3434211a10,00.html

Great news. First Doom, now Halo. I wonder which one will be better.

Firefox vs IE (Internet Explorer), yet another comparison

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=108&tag=nl.e589

An interesting take on security between Firefox and Internet Explorer. I could write an entire book about my opinions on the topic, but since I have not time, I just reference those that have time to write about it!

JetBlue Flight 292

With so many terrible things going on in the world these days its great when something good such as this brings a smidgen of hope to us all.

Video of the landing

Hurricane Rita 2005

In light of the latest updates regarding the intensity of hurricane Rita, we will have you all in our prayers this night.

Just moved to Arizona! (too funny)

Just moved to Arizona! Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! It is beautiful. I’ve finally found my home. I love it here.
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