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23 Jan 2009 Unseasonable Warm Temperatures
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thermometersThe weather this winter has been extremly odd.  We have swung from temperatures in the arctic cold to VERY warm for this time of year.  At first I thought it might only be here in the north western part of Colorado, but upon further observation I realized that the same thing is happening in Denver and on the Front Range as well.

Temperatures for the past week have been in the low 70′s for Denver and surrounding areas and up as high as 76 in Pueblo.  While at the same time the temperatures here have been cold.  We have been getting down to an average of 17 below zero and up to as much as 9 degrees during the day.  This was happening at the same time that Denver and company were in the 70′s.  That seems odd to me.

Earlier this year we were unseasonably warm here while Denver had the Arctic blast with wind chills down to 30 below zero.  At this time we unseasonably warm getting into the low 50′s.  This is the first year I remember such an odd temperature difference between the two sides of the mountains and such extremes.

I am moved to write about this since yesterday the temperature was -19 when we left for school at 7:30 and this morning at 7:30 it’s raining at 32 degrees.  The weather patterns are certainly changing, there is no doubt about that.

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20 Jan 2009 Brrr… It’s Cold!
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coldmountainlakeatdusk-skarstad-norwayAs of the time of this writing, at about 1:00 pm the temperature has warmed up to 5 degrees.  That’s right, warmed up.  We started the day at -16 at 6:00 am so you can forget what I wrote earlier about global warming.

The crazy thing is that Denver is experiencing very warm temperatures and is supposed to get up to 70 tomorrow.  We’re expecting a high of maybe 30 unless the pressure system changes dramatically tonight- which it could.

This picture although taken in Norway pretty much sums up the temperature out side.  Well, except for the fact that you can see the lake and not a large chunk of ice which is what the lakes around here are right now.

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04 Jan 2009 Windows 7 – Beta 1 Build 7000

Windows 7 Beta 1 has shown up on the Internet on various download sites and peer-to-peer sharing location and many are beginning to suspect that this “mostly complete” beta of the next latest and greatest version of Windows was leaked by Microsoft themselves!  And this makes sense.  After all there are problems, features, and issues that never show up in beta releases until released and subjected to the wide variety of hardware and software combinations.

I was able to get my hands on a version of the Windows 7 Ultimate beta.  It’s running as a virtual machine on my Mac and I must say that with what little testing I have done it does appear to be faster than Vista which was one of the main complaints.  Even with only 512 mb of ram allocated it runs fairly well and in some cases better than my copy of Windows XP Pro running with 512 mb ram.  Disk activity is an issue and certainly affects performance expecially on my Macbook with only a 5400 rpm drive.  I am almost certain at this point that I’m going to buy and install a 7200 rpm 320 gb drive for the Macbook but that is another story.  This may be a biased report because Windows Glass (Aero) is not supported under VMWare fusion 1.1 officially and even though I’m running 2.0 (the latest version) it still doesn’t work. more…

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02 Jan 2009 Playing DVD Movies in Ubuntu 8.10 Solved!

ubuntulogo1In a previous post I said how impressed I was with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex except for one thing- I couldn’t seem to play DVD movies.  Well- I just fixed that.

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02 Jan 2009 Incredible Weather- Global Warming?

We took a trip to Silverthorne to get some groceries today and it was 60 degrees in Frisco!  Currently at the time of this writing it’s 5:40 pm and 39 degrees.  The past few days have been very warm for this time of year and there is lots of snow melt already.  This is highly unusual and I’ve noticed that this year is quite a bit warmer overall than winters past.

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31 Dec 2008 Broncos Fire Head Coach
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Now this certainly came as a big shock to me- the Broncos fired Mike Shanahan as the head coach.  Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that the Broncos failed to make it to the playoffs by blowing a three game divisional lead.

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24 Dec 2008 Tracking Santa with Norad
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Tonight family and friends came over for a Chrismas Eve meal and fellowship.  The kids played XBOX and tracked Santas’ progress with NORAD at  http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html.  The finally went to bed at 11:00 pm and Santa was at Easter Island Chili and turning around to head back north.  

We told the kids that they better get to bed before he gets here or he might not leave them anything.

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24 Dec 2008 XBOX 360 Arrives!
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Woo Hoo! :) The XBOX 360 just arrived at exactly Noon!  The kids were so excited they wanted to set it up right away but I told them to wait until tonight.

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23 Dec 2008 Almost Here!
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xbox-360-fansThere are several things we are hopeful that are “Almost Here” but none is more pressing in my kids minds than the XBOX 360 returning from Mesquite TX after being sent away for a little R & R (Repair & Reconditioning).

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23 Dec 2008 Family Photo Album
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I have created a Family Photo Album.  This will hold almost all the pictures.  I suggest you download the CoolIris plugin.  It’s very impressive…  and the best way to view large galleries of pictures.

Old Time

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Shantelle

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kids

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22 Dec 2008 Comments Setting Changed
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I just changed the comments setting to allow posting of comments even if the commentator is not registered. This will hopefully bring more traffic and add more spice to the site. Personally I would like somebody to comment on my Apple iMac predictions.

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22 Dec 2008 Christmas Program 2008
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The kids had their Christmas programs this past week. Here are a few pictures!

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20 Dec 2008 XBOX on it’s way
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screenshot1Hey- check this out!  I just checked and it looks like the XBOX repair has been completed and it’s in the process of being shipped back.  It’s still too early to see any tracking information but hopefully the box will arive before Christmas!!

I’m not too hopeful because it won’t ship until Monday and then it’s coming from TX so we’re most likely talking UPS ground which is 7-10 days.  The only thing that may help is that shipping is top notch right now because of the holiday rush.  So maybe there is hope yet… more…

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20 Dec 2008 Wow! It’s Cold!
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The current temperature is 12 degrees but it feels a lot colder! Although it gets much colder here, the wind is blowing right now and taking into account relative humidity and wind speed of 15 mph it feels like -7. Maybe I’m just getting old…

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20 Dec 2008 Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) and new iMac release dates
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When I asked my Apple sales rep if I should buy the current iMac or wait until a new one is released- he had the following to say, “I know there isn’t going to be a new iMac released this year… are you feeling me…?” This was his way of telling me that the new iMacs are going to be released very soon, most likely Q1 of 2009. more…

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