http://www.gdunge.com One man's attempts to improve himself Mon, 12 May 2008 03:55:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi Moms, We love you! Hope you enjoy this little video. Love, Doug and Anna [qt:/static/movies/momday2008.mov 640 496] http://www.gdunge.com/2008/05/11/happy-mothers-day/ I recently got a comment from Marty on my Good News and Bad News post. Marty wrote: Your wife does life coaching and editing? There’s definately some stuff in my life I’d like to edit out, like the heart attack I had 12/27 (don’t worry, it was a little one, I was ... http://www.gdunge.com/2008/02/03/my-wife-is-awesome/ I haven't been checking (been busy with schoolwork) but apparently Simpleology hadn't unlocked their special blogging content for me. I reposted the URL where I'd pasted in their boilerplate and this time it took right away. I now have lots of presentation-style content available. Of course I'm pretty light ... http://www.gdunge.com/2008/01/31/simpleology-update/ Let's see if the Simpleology guys can help me out with blogging. They're offering this free course on Blogging for Fun and Profit if you paste this into your blog: I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag ... http://www.gdunge.com/2007/12/28/blogging-for-fun-and-profit/ 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 ... http://www.gdunge.com/2007/08/29/depositing-checks-via-the-internet/ 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 ... http://www.gdunge.com/2007/08/21/hp-officejet-5610-mini-review/ 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. ... http://www.gdunge.com/2007/08/16/good-news-and-bad-news/ 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 ... http://www.gdunge.com/2007/08/15/honeywell-likes-me/ (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 ... http://www.gdunge.com/2007/08/09/upgrade-complete/ 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 ... http://www.gdunge.com/2007/08/06/wordpress-update/