The First 100 Years Are The Hardest

For the Children! 2008 Softball Champions -- Corporate Challenge - City of Richardson Continuing a fine tradition of winning for Texans Credit Union, our team won gold this year with the Division D Softball tournament . We started the tournament with Game 1 on Saturday morning at 8am and led the team to a 6-2 win. The Texans then made it through the tournament with one loss (4-14) Sunday afternoon in a double-elimination gold medal round. We played the final gold medal round with lots of passion and energy on Sunday afternoon. Coming from behind with 6-8 deficit, we gained four runs to post a 10-8 lead. However, our opponents managed to tie the game 10-10 with a minute left on the game clock. The Texans again rallied with a 1 run and held our opponents scoreless in the bottom of last inning to win the gold medal 11-10. The Richardson Corporate Challenge is an Olympic style competition involving many athletic (and non-athletic events) held in the fall of each year. This charit...

Resolving GDM issues with Fedora 9 (Sulpher) GDM is not fully supported in Fedora 9 because GDM was rewritten during the GNOME 2.21 release cycle ( ref ). gdmsetup is missing so you cannot customize your login and I had issues with user switching ( Cannot communicate with GDM (The GNOME Display Manager)). Also, GDM would not put my monitor into powersaving mode from the login screen which was a real issue. To resolve I reverted back to the fedora 8 versions of gdm and fast-user-switch applet. Note: this could be "dangerous" (ie, see below - you may be required to recreate your user account). 1) Download fc8 rpms for gdm, fast-user-switch-applet and fedorainfinity-gdm-theme (required to resolve a gdm dependecy) gdm-2.20.1-5.fc8.i386.rpm fast-user-switch-applet-2.20.0-1.fc8.i386.rpm fedorainfinity-gdm-theme-8.0.1-1.fc8.noarch.rpm 2) Remove the fc9 versions of gdm and gdm-user-switch-applet $sudo yum erase gdm 3) Install the fc8 versions: $sudo rpm...

The Everyman’s Library 100 Essentials The Aeneid by Virgil The Analects by Confucius Animal Farm by George Orwell Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy The Audubon Reader by John James Audubon Beloved by Toni Morrison The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window by Raymond Chandler Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Carried Away by Alice Munro The Castle by Franz Kafka Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler Collected Stories by Roald Dahl Collected Stories by Franz Kafka Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov The Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment...

WiFi Antenna Hacks for (Almost) Free! I "stumbled" across a couple of cool tools to improve performance of your wireless router at home. The "Ez-12" parabolic reflector took a few minutes to make and really worked great. My WiFi router is upstairs. I got a 10db signal boost and my WI-FI connection quit dropping on my laptop downstairs. Ez-12 Parabolic Reflector Template: http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html If you are adventurous you might also try this. I’ve got everything ready but haven’t made the commitment to cut the existing wiring on my WiFi antenna. The parabolic reflector appears to be working well enough. At any rate this one was fun to build and beats spending $50 at Best Buy. WiFi Antenna Hack: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/837885/wifi_antenna_hack/ Measure Signal Strength (Signal/Noise ratio) of your Wi-Fi Signal NetStumbler: http://stumbler.net/

Love of My Life - Queen/Freddy Mercury (Top 5 All Time Favorites!) Love of my life, you hurt me, You broken my heart, now you leave me. Love of my life cant you see, Bring it back bring it back, Dont take it away from me, Because you dont know what it means to me. Love of my life dont leave me, Youve stolen my love now desert me, Love of my life cant you see, Bring it back bring it back, Dont take it away from me, Because you dont know what it means to me. You will remember when this is blown over, And everythings all by the way, When I grow older, I will be there by your side, To remind how I still love you I still love you. Hurry back hurry back, Dont take it away from me, Because you dont know what it means to me.

I've got Straight Edge ! Listen to the NOFX cover of Minor Threat's "Straight Edge" from their White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean CD. Refer to : wikipedia And yes, that's my Porsche 911 in the slide show. 1996, air cooled flat six 993, speed yellow, custom centerline 19" chrome wheels. I use it both for fun and show!