Creating a Morning Ritual

Well today was the 1st day of my 30 day test of getting up at 5:30 am. The kids weren’t as cooperative as I had hoped last night but what do you expect right?

The alarm went off on schedule at 5:30 so I promptly dismissed it and wondered what I was thinking yesterday. I did manage to roll out by 5:51, not what I had planned but better than the usual 7:00. I was in kind of a daze for awhile since I didn’t have a concrete plan of activities. I ended up doing some reading of Les Strouds, Survive. I’ve gotten hooked on the SurvivorMan series. I did some pushups, had my protein drink, and enjoyed the rain.

Not a bad start.

Blogwriter Lite for iTouch

Well I am going to give this app a try. I'm not really a text type of guy. This app Is free so you can't upload pictures with it but I just LOVE my new iTouch. I haven't been blogging for quite awhile.

FTP resolve IP address

I can’t believe I didn’t think of this! (Actually I can but that’s a different story.)

An associate was trying to get the IP address of a site she had just FTP through the browser to.

Fairly simple.

• open cmd window.
• ping ftp://somesite.com
• resolves the IP addresss dotted notation.

One thing to note is it will time out but who cares! We got the IP address we were looking for. Pretty smart!

Thanks Bruce!

Blasted AntiVirXP08

Well, I knew it was going to happen. One of the kids happened to stumble upon the Spyware, Malware crap that is AntiVirXP08. I should have read all of the instructions at this helpful site. I should have read all the instructions but I didn't so now I'm waiting on a XP OS CD trying to repair the Windows installation. I think I should have tried some more things. I didn't read through the comments. There are some good tidbits of info in the comments.

So if you get this good luck. As for me I have changed the password of the logon of my computer and the kids are all getting a lecture.