Winblows 98 I couldn't resist the impulse buy!

Crissy pointed this one out to me in the store. For the potential defamation lawsuit itself, it was a must buy! I'm sure it will be a collector's item.

The only question now: Should I open the package and play the games or leave it in the shrink wrap???

Vacuum Tonight we bought a vacuum from a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman! It was his 3rd sale ever! The sales-manager ("the guy on the phone") thought that it was his first. We got a really good deal. I'm such a softie for door-to-door people. We bought a TriStar EXL. I won't say how much it cost, but trust me I checked on Ebay and we stole this one.

More Pictures of Neil Andy just uploaded a whole bunch more pictures of Neil Andrew Pohl!
I took the liberty of making a thumbnail page.

New books from Audible.com I just downloaded 2 new books from Audible.com.

The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy by Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds, and more
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! by Yogi Berra and Dave Kaplan

I'll let you know how well I like them! I'm sure that they will be most positive books!

Neil Andrew Pohl I'm an uncle again! YEAH!!!

Pictures: 1 2 3
From Andy:

Neil joined us last night at 6:34 p.m. with a little help from the doctors. He weighs 8lbs 0oz and is 21.25" long.

Here are a few pictures from last night. In some (actually most) of the pictures you will see a funny looking plastic dome over his head. He was having some problems breathing to start out but he is doing fine now. Mom (Cassie) is doing great in fact right now she is on here way to the nursery to feed him for the first time.

'Little guys' need computer help, too Here is a little article from the 3/4/2002 edition of the Des Moines Register. Steve Woo is a great wordsmith. He can even make me look good!

Thanks Steve!

Click on my picture to read the article (246kb)

It's NOT Over until I WIN! Today, Steve Woo came over to the house after church. Actually he followed us home :) ... sort-of (He got a little lost). Anyways ... this afternoon, we played on his old computer that he converted into a linux machine. It was an old Pentium^tm 200. Did I mention how OLD it was? We booted it up and noted its utter slowness. I was origionally *just* going to show him what PHP was all about, but since it was so slow, we decided to tackle that first. He and another firend installed the latest version of Mandrake on it. Mandrake is really just another flavor of Linux. There was a LOT of extra programs that were running that really didn't need to and his webserver was a little flaky because PHP wasn't setup quite right. Anyone who knows my taste in Linux knows that I think Slackware is the best Linux *flavor* because it isn't as bloated out of the box. Being the glutton for punishment that I am, we decided to reinstall the machine with the latest version of Slackware, which I happened to have on CD. Well ... 3 hours later and repartitioning his harddrive for the 5th time, Slackware was up and running happily. Did I mention how OLD his machine was? I've never had so much trouble installing Linux onto a computer (and I have done it a LOT). His BIOS was out of date and not too happy to have a harddrive that was 6GB (way bigger than what was available at the time when the computer was new). Persistence was the key to making it work. And yes, Les Brown, I won!

Andy has a Blog! What a red-letter day! Andy has a blog!