Personality Test

Well a friend took this test, so I thought I would too. Can’t say how accurate it is, because as the saying goes, we’re our own worst critics. My Personality Neuroticism 58 Extraversion 1 Openness to Experience 6 Agreeableness 74 Conscientiousness 26 You very rarely feel depressed and are usually in a good frame of [...]

Education going to the dogs

#Start rant# I think it’s a sad state of affairs when you come across a story and the writer totally doesn’t know their geography. I won’t mention who or where the story is, because I don’t want to embarrass them. However, for some background information to the story, it should be pointed out that a [...]

Movie Review: “Nim’s Island”

Was a fairly quiet day, and happened to look online at the movie listings on News and Observer, saw that Nim’s Island was playing at a theater nearby. We’d just had dinner and made mention of it to my Dad. With Mom’s encouragement, he and I set out to see this enchanting little adventure. It [...]

Struggling with Vista

Got a new machine over the weekend with Vista Home Premium (x64) and wanted to pull my hair out all Sunday evening. Spent 6 hours trying to diagnose why I could connect to the internet — yes, my router assigned an IP and I could ping/ftp/mail/https — but not do any updates or view http [...]