Archive for August, 2007

Depositing checks via the Internet

Our bank, USAA, has a new service that lets you deposit checks with your scanner. Since our new printer has a scanner, I decided to try it out.
It requires Mac OS 10.4 on Macs, which we don’t yet have, so I fired up Anna’s Dell laptop. There goes an hour of time I’ll […]

HP OfficeJet 5610 mini-review

I love HP inkjet printers. They last forever.
Anyway, when we decided we wanted a copier and a fax machine, we started looking at HP devices. Then a special back-to-school offer came up for the OfficeJet 5610 and we decided to try it. I just finished installing it on our Mac.
It has an […]

Good news and bad news

Time for some catching up.
The good news:

Our last tax return showed NMSU that I need lots more financial aid.
NMSU gave me lots more financial aid, including work study money.
I now qualify as a New Mexico resident, so I can take more than six credit hours and still pay in-state tuition. I’m signed up for […]

Honeywell likes me

This morning I had an email from the engineering college that Honeywell has awarded me a scholarship! It will more than pay for textbooks (a surprisingly large expense) and supplies for this year. Thanks, Honeywell!
Here’s the essay I wrote for the scholarship application.
I am a freshman in the Aeronautical Engineering program at NMSU.
Enrolling […]

Upgrade Complete

(The title of this post kept echoing around in my head. Slowly I realized it was being said in a particular female voice. Eventually I tracked it down to the Terran Advisor in Starcraft. I am a huge nerd.)
The web guy fixed PHP and I installed the Gallery2 plugin. Now all […]

WordPress update

Yep, I upgraded WordPress this evening. Then I found that the Gallery2 plugin needed to be updated to match. Then I found that the Gallery2 plugin that is needed by the new WordPress requires an upgrade to Gallery2.
Then I found that the upgrade to Gallery2 won’t work on my webserver. Something to […]


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