We got to the hotel around 3:30 in time to wander around the massive lobby for a while. It is placed at the end of a long section of various residences all under the management of Hilton hotels in one big walled off resort plantation with an indoor pool complex and everything and the hotel [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Spring Break Begins
We’ve been driving for about two and a half hours now and most of it has just been sleepy time or PSO time using my laptop as a tv with the usb tv tuner I have. We left this morning around 6:30, stopping for a quick McDonalds breakfast, heading for our destination at Embasy Suites [...]
Spring Break
Here in a couple of hours I will be heading back to Knoxville for the fifth (or is it the sixth) weekend in a row, and again for a good reason. This time I will be off early Saturday morning for Myrtle Beach for a week with five of my good friends from here at [...]
More Toys
Today my special package from Hong Kong arrived with my Bluetooth dongle, USB drive, and LED flashlight. (And let me tell you that thing is bright for only 9 LEDs.) The Bluetooth works OK in windows but it seems that it’s going to be too much of a headache to try to get it working [...]
Vista’s got nothin’
After a few hours of dedicated work, I’ve got this wonderful new toy working in linux: Beryl. Think of all the graphical effects that Apple’s OS X hosts and combine that with anything you get from Windows Vista on a high end machine plus some features that neither have even dreamed of. Here’s a little [...]
