This summer my wife and I went to Disneyland. My brother works there and got us in for free. I need to remember to send him some beer or wine. It was a lovely day. I have a pattern to go around the park and hit all the main attractions. With no kids, it works out pretty well. Once we start bringing children it will need to change.

My brother works on Fantasmic. The night show on the Rivers of America. He works many positions on the show and has many good stories. With this position he can request seats in the center tower. Special seating for VIP’s. You actually get to sit in a chair and see the whole show from the center. No sideline issues or other people’s big heads in the way.

I attempted to take some pictures of the show with my wife’s digital camera. I tried a couple of settings allowed to capture the moving objects with lights. If you ever ave tried to take a picture of moving traffic at night you know what I mean.

Some of the pictures came out and others just seemed interesting to look at. Kind of artistic, but what the hell do I know about art. I just pulled them off of the camera last night and wanted to share them here. Unlike Having to watch Thelma and Louise’s Vacation Slides, you can ignore this post.  I am in no way a professional (duh) photographer, but I like some of the pictures that are a bit blurry.

I have three 1Gb PC2700 CL2.5 laptop memory.  I’m asking $100.00 for each or best offer.

Payment:
Paypal or Cash only. Please don’t contact me if you want to pay other ways.

Terms: 
This is a ASIS items. You pick it up or arrange a place to meet.

I have two Alienware Sentia Laptops for parts only. They have a Motherboard issue that won’t read the memory correctly. I’m asking $20.00 for each or best offer. These got to go.

Comes with:
Alienware Sentia 12″ Display Laptop Has a DVD RW drive.

Payment:
Paypal or Cash only. Please don’t contact me if you want to pay other ways.

Terms: 
This is a ASIS items. You pick it up or arrange a place to meet.

I have two Alienware Sentia power adapters. I’m asking $20.00 for each or best offer.

Payment:
Paypal or Cash only. Please don’t contact me if you want to pay other ways.

Terms: 
This is a ASIS items. You pick it up or arrange a place to meet.

I have one 80GB Laptop Hard Drive with Alienware Sentia Case. I’m asking $100.00 or best offer.

Comes with:
Alienware Sentia Laptop Case.

Payment:
Paypal or Cash only. Please don’t contact me if you want to pay other ways.

Terms: 
This is a ASIS items. You pick it up or arrange a place to meet.

I have one AlienWare Sentia Laptop. I’m asking $400.00 or best offer. It comes with the following configuration:

Alienware 12″ Display Sentia
Intel Pentium M 1.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
20 GB Hard Drive
DVD+ and – RW
Wireless
SD card
3 USB ports
SVGA port, firewire, & modem

Comes with:
Power Supply, Recovery OS CD, Drivers CD.

Payment:
Paypal or Cash only. Please don’t contact me if you want to pay other ways.

Terms: 
This is a ASIS items. You pick it up or arrange a place to meet.

I have two AlienWare Sentia Laptops. I’m asking $500.00 for each or best offer. They come with the following configuration:

Alienware 12″ Display Sentia
Intel Pentium M 1.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
80 GB Hard Drive
DVD+ and – RW
Wireless
SD card
3 USB ports
SVGA port, firewire, & modem

Comes with:
Power Supply, Recovery OS CD, Drivers CD.

Payment:
Paypal or Cash only. Please don’t contact me if you want to pay other ways.

Terms:
These are ASIS items. You pick them up or arrange a place to meet.

In an obvious nod to Twitter’s signature question “what are you doing?,” the new free service PingMe asks “what should you be doing?” instead. The answer, apparently, is anything that you care to remind yourself to do. Like Twitter, PingMe offers mobile phone integration, but with a slightly different twist: you enter messages for yourself, rather than for the world, and tell PingMe when and where to deliver them back to you.

After a relatively simple confirmed signup process, PingMe presents you with an interface that allows you to create a ping, add targets, or add contacts. A ping is a reminder to yourself – anything from “buy milk” to “put on snow tires” with a date and time attached. You can create one-time pings, recurring pings, or even “pestering pings” that recur frequently (up to every ten minutes) until you turn them off. By default, your account will have your email and mobile phones as targets, but you can add more targets easily if you have, for example, multiple emails where you want pings delivered. Any given ping can be scheduled to hit any set of your targets.

When a ping arrives, you can interact with the service by sending messages back to PingMe. Send “ok” to turn a pestering ping off, or “2 h” to tell it to stop pestering you for two hours. You can also create new pings by email.  Pings can be archived and tagged as well, so you can use PingMe as a persistent record of tasks if you like.

There’s also a social aspect here: you can invite another PingMe user (or indeed, anyone with an e-mail address) to become one of your contacts. If they accept, then you can schedule pings for each other. This gives you a way to set up group reminders for meetings, events, parties, or whatever else you can thing of that might need group nagging.

All in all, PingMe looks quite useful for the dedicated mobile worker who wants to manage an active task list without needing to constantly run to the laptop. The easy email management and flexible targeting are definitely useful, and the price is certainly right.

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Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC (Vista or XP)

August 13th, 2007 — Craig

A modern PC with Vista Home Edition takes about one and a half minutes to boot. An older machine with XP is about the same. That’s 30 seconds for the PC itself (the BIOS) to boot up, plus a minute for the Windows operating system to boot. Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows (e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”) There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a warm boot instead, thus saving you 30 seconds per cycle.

The trick is to hold down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart.

Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice.

Windows XP: Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”. Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button.

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