When The Lights Go Down In The City

I was out picking up a shirt for my sister in law this evening and decided to stop and take a picture of this fountain.

Any Way You Want It

Went to pick up a shirt for my sister 

This is the sort of thing they have.

Dedication, Devotion Turnin' All The Nighttime Into The Day

 

Enough said. 

Been So Long Since I Found Out

Just wanted to say that I do still write. There is also photography now.

All of that can be found over here these days.

I'm slowly copying everything from here, my irnothing journal and maybe even my old dl account (if the people over there somehow managed to archive everything before they trashed it all) over to there.

• Current Location:United States, Indiana, Carmel
• Current Mood: curious
• Current Music:Black Dog ~ Led Zeppelin

*I'm aware of the fact that the link above redirects to here.  I just posted this on the LJ account and duplicated it here.*

I Know A Couple Of Guys They Really Do Like Pie

Many many many many many many years ago I had a blog over on diaryland.com.

I was going to make sure I had all of my entries moved over onto here yesterday afternoon only to find out that my blog no longer seems to exist.  This is only a slight surprise, honestly. The last time I updated it was probably sometime in early 2004.

I do not know if LiveJournal was invite only at the time or if I just didn't know about it or I just wasn't as comfortable with the internet in general or what, but that is where I was in those days.

Anyway, I just emailed the diaryland people to see if they have an archive or if it is just gone forever. Honestly I find it difficult to believe that such things can be just gone on the internet.  I know I have most of it between this blog and my second LiveJournal account.

I guess I will have to wait and see if a second portion of my online life (the first being my old geocities websites) is gone forever or not.

A Flight Of Fancy On A Windswept Field

Okay.  Longhorn is installing. 
What I said before? Firing up Win2k3, creating a partition, cloning off the VM and overwriting it?
Worked perfectly!
So here we go:

Windows Longhorn Build 5048.

We have a pretty new start up screen.

Welcome to Windows Setup.

Agree to the Blah Blah Blah

Settings?  Okay!

Basically what happened above was me formatting my cloned machine’s hard drive so I can install this beast.

Next we name the machine.

Just in case we wanted to set up the time zone or something? Nope! Shot down!

Sit through a bunch of this crap for a few minutes…



So this time around it gives an active command prompt while it is installing Windows.  I decided to play around with it a bit…

Windows Media Player had to be killed with the Task Manager.  I was unable to get Windows Explorer to load, but hey…I could have played Solitaire while I waited if I wanted to!

That was basically the end of the installation.  Later I will play around with the OS and see what fun things there are to be had.
*Bonus*

Aero Theme!

Stretched To The Point Of No Turning Back

So I figured out why the Windows Longhorn build 5048 was giving me install errors!
It does not have the ability to create a partition on a blank hard disk!  Which simply means spinning up a different install ISO long enough to create a partition.  Exit Windows setup, switch out the ISO and restart.
Will it be that easy?
MAYBE!
Right now I am ripping my Windows .Net Server 2003 RC2 CD so I can use that.  I’ll probably set it up then clone off the virtual machine so I can install Longhorn.

Bye Bye Miss American Pie

*Sigh* Millenials.

Today’s Lesson:

Classic Americana food, hamburgers, hotdogs, apple pie, etc, are old.  These things are no longer considered “American Food.”

According to rumour these things have been supplanted by chinese food and tacos.

Follow your dreams, I guess.  Even if your dreams are slightly off balance and geographically unsound.

Faces Come Out Of The Rain

Today's adventures in weird things that were shipped!

Up for your consideration we have:

 I have no idea how you can fry air, but I guess it is healthy?

This is a "Smart Pot"

It is a flower pot that waters your plants so you don't have to.  You just have to remember to water the pot!  It seems that there is a smart phone app to go with it...BECAUSE WHO DOESN'T NEED AN INTERNET CONNECTED FLOWER POT!