Monthly Archives: September 2006

Tomorrow I am going to the 2006 National Book Festival on a bus trip sponsored by the James V Brown Library. I will be out of town for the entire day and will not be able to get any work … Continue reading →

Today I received in the mail ASP.NET 2.0 For Dummies and Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies. I like reading Dummies books because they are a good way to get an introduction to a subject without spending a lot of time … Continue reading →

Tonight I tried a version of Linux called dyne:bolic. You can burn this version of Linux onto a CDROM and run the entire operating system from the CDROM. All of its multimedia tools worked pretty well on my system. I … Continue reading →

Today I upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake Linux 9.2. I found some welcome improvements. My sound card is now working. My built-in network connection is working so I can connect to the Internet over Verizon DSL. However, I did … Continue reading →

I recently bought a LogiTech USB Desktop Microphone because my voice sounds funny when I try to narrate a screen capture video. Unfortunately, my voice still sounds strange when I record it using this new microphone. It may be that … Continue reading →

Today I did some work on WordPress Theme customization. I added a topic on this subject to my notes. I created a custom snapshot image for the WordPress Theme Picker and I documented how to change the header image and … Continue reading →

I recently bought the Philips SAA 7130 PCI TV Card to capture video on my PC. I needed this in order to import some videotape of Linux running on my Playstation. This video capture card works extremely well with both … Continue reading →

I have created an ASP.NET version of my script to document a database design using queries of the information_schema.tables. This required dynamically creating an unknown number of datagrid controls, one for each table that would be found. To do that … Continue reading →