Monthly Archives: February 2009

It is what it is

Really? It is what it is? How is that helpful? I think this utterance attempts to refocus the conversation but it always prompts my analytical brain to think, and sometimes reply, the syntactic Boolean inverse, “You mean it is not … Continue reading

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Sibling Conflicts and Parent Intervention

My job as a parent is to help my kids transition from selfish dependent children to empathetic, aware, thinking, enabled, and independent adults. It’s one of those ideas that’s so basic it is the core of many other values. It … Continue reading

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Asus EEE 900A Boot Defect

Well, after two weeks of playing with this little gadget I ended up returning it. It developed a quirk where three out of four power ups the computer refused to POST. I discovered this problem persists with many of Asus’s … Continue reading

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Asus Eee PC 900 Easy Peasy Wifi Toggle Hack

Due to various work related reasons I ended up in need of an ultra portable computing platform that could run Linux. After much hem-hawing I decided on the Asus Eee PC 900A which retailed for $250 at my local Target. … Continue reading

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