Richard & Misti's Blog

I finished the 6th Harry Potter book on Friday and must say that I enjoyed it. J.K. Rowling amazes me with her writing ability and vast vocabulary. I think she’s an excellent writer. It’s been a while since I read one of the previous Harry Potter books, but if I am not mistaken [...]

Wow, today is like the worst computer day in recent history. Nothing works today. And, wow, Adobe’s DRM (digital rights management) is such a losery piece of dung! Talk about a poor implementation, could they make it any harder to use?

Well, as most Reno people know by now, the Bullrun USA 2005 rally was in town last night (yes, Paris Hilton, Hayden Christensen, and Dennis Rodman were in Reno yesterday!), and I saw some of the fancy racecars on the freeway, but didn’t recognize the occupants. Lots of speeding tickets!

We watched “The Man from the Alamo” (1953; Glenn Ford, Julia Adams) last night on VHS. Not bad, for an old western. I finished listening to “Blood Work” by Michael Connelly today on unabridged audiobook. This audio cassette implementation was unique in that it contained a different segment of the story on [...]

I tried Trillian 3.1 Basic yesterday. It’s just like Gaim 1.4.0 in functionality, but prettier. There are some minor things I don’t like about it, but it’s pretty good overall. Windows Vista (the next version of Microsoft Windows) was announced yesterday. Hmmmm. We found the “SHM #256 Red Rock” and [...]

Come to find out, Firefox 1.0.6 was released on the 19th, just one week after 1.0.5 came out, apparently to address the nine new highly critical security flaws found in the past week. Firefox, despite all your security holes, PLEASE wait at least a month until the next version! (For those that don’t [...]

I’ve always known that dark chocolate is the only true chocolate. I tried playing Conquer, but despite my computer exceeding the minimum hardware and software requirements (albeit just barely), it still wouldn’t run. Lame. The new Google Moon tool is fairly cool. (Hint: zoom all the way in!)
I’m glad to see [...]

We found the following three easy caches yesterday:
Betsy’s RockSHM #227?Celestial Money
We swam some more, then ate another one of Misti’s wonderful barbequed chicken dinners (using the superb McCormick Grill Mates Honey Mustard Grilling Sauce), then watched “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen” (2004; Lindsay Lohan, Glenne Headly, Megan Fox) on widescreen DVD last night with [...]

Well, it seems that a PHP/Drupal security hole was exploited to hack the SpreadFirefox.com website recently. Inevitable at some point, I suppose.
We watched “Shark Tale” (2004; Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Martin Scorsese) tonight on widescreen DVD – cute. Becky’s bottlecap collection is steadily growing, with 66 [...]

Firefox 1.0.5 was released yesterday due to the fact that ten new security holes were found in 1.0.4. Once again, the ‘Software Update’ feature in Firefox doesn’t find the update, so you have to go to their website and download another whole version and install it. Lame. Speaking of numbers, it was [...]

We found three easy caches yesterday:
GOAL!Leo ToidSHM #240
which puts us at 444 caches found now. We then ate a meal at the China Star Super Buffet on Plumb Lane, after shopping for some interesting things at Park Lane Mall. It had been some time since we last spent an appreciable amount of time [...]

We were sad to hear about the terrorist bombings in London yesterday morning. Our heartfelt condolences go out to the families of the more than 50 persons killed in these cowardly attacks.
You know, there are really a lot of crappy podcasts out there (sadly, ours is lame, too). Here are some that are [...]

Finding a good OPML outliner for Windows is like searching for a needle in a haystack. I’ve tried JOE (a Java-based outliner), but it’s, well… Java. I’ve looked at Buzz (a Python-based outliner), but who wants to install Python, WxPython, Python wrappers, and libxml2 as prerequisites to installing a simple outlining app? [...]

Well, lots of things happened this past weekend. First, we enjoyed Brad and Emilie’s BBQ on Friday night, featuring Lisa the Scorpion Girl. The grub was good, new bottlecaps were splendid, and the Laffy Taffy jokes were lame but plentiful. On Saturday, I attended Breanna Mahler’s baptism, then we visited Callaghan Park [...]

I’m totally stoked: I actually found an easy-to-use podcatching client yesterday that actually works (all the ones I’ve tried lately either outright don’t work, don’t work through a proxy, or won’t run on Win98)! It’s called RSSRadio, it runs on Win98 (and above), it’s simple and intuitive, and it’s just plain wonderful! [...]