Deep Something

A Rambling Blog

June 14, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 612 Views 0 Comments Blogs, Plugins, Wordpress, Deep Something, Blogging, Air Travel, Amendment 2, Airport, airports, florida, fl

I don’t get a ton of traffic on this site, and have always been disappointed with the lack of comments. I get a few, but I know I have opinionated friends, and would expect a little more from them. I suspect one of the reasons is that this blog is so far ranging in the topics I write about. I’ve read some good articles lately on blogging, and most say to narrow the focus of your blog. The people writing these articles do have very widely read blogs, so one must give them their props.

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Tivo and Focus On The Family

June 7, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 606 Views 1 Comment james dobson, gay, Christianity, Tivo, christian, methodist, focus on the family

The Family was no different. This bothered me a bit, so I went to the Tivo website, got a number for their corporate headquarters and called. A very nice person named Alyson called me back, and we had a nice discussion about the situation. i followed up my conversation with the following letter.

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Happy 4th Anniversary to Deep Sand

May 24, 2008 B. John 564 Views 1 Comment Anniversary, May 24, 2004, fun, Politics, elections, Culture, Movies, Family, Deep Something

It’s hard to believe, but Deep Sand debuted on May 24, 2004. I can’t believe I’ve maintained this blog for that long. Lot’s of blogs out there have been abandoned over the years. Here’s to the last four years of blogging on Deep Sand, here’s to the unbelievable team of developers and the open source community that make WordPress and unbelievable software platform, and here’s to four more years of raising hell.

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Microsoft's Vista Disaster

April 8, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 587 Views 0 Comments Windows, Microsoft, XP, Vista, Windows 7, OS Operating System

Well, it appears Vista has become the Windows 95/Windows ME disaster of this decade. It seems that most people who have tried it, especially on laptops, have found it to be a useless resource hog, with cool graphics, but not much else ot offer. Count me amongst that crowd.

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Ditching Daylight Savings Time in Florida?

March 29, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 419 Views 0 Comments Florida Senate, Daylight Savings Time, Jim King, Bill Posey

It seems that State Senator Bill Posey wants to end Daylight Savings time in Florida. According to him it’s just too much trouble to change all the clocks and watches. Of course, just wait until you have to figure out what time you have a conference call. We have people in Central time, and that gets confusing sometimes. I’m scared to think what it will be like to have a different time than the rest of the east coast.

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A Big Day at Deep Sand

March 28, 2008 B. John 570 Views 0 Comments Wordpress, Blogging, Database, Blogs, Plugins, Upgrades

We have spent our evenings this week doing some major upgrades to Deep Sand. One of the most obvious is the new look and feel of the site, but that’s not all. Behind the scenes we upgraded to the current version of the software, revamped our database, and upgraded all the plugins that make Deep Sand what it is. We hope you’ll visit and browse around.

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Hacking Heart Devices

March 14, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 484 Views 1 Comment hackers, CNet News, defibrillators, Hacking, Medtronic

Cnet News has an interesting story about the implantable defibrilators that some heart patients wear (including Vice President Dick Cheney). Security researchers were able to reprogram the device to either shutdown or deliver very strong jolts that could be fatal.

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To iSleep, Perchance to iDream

January 11, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 374 Views 0 Comments iPods, Beds, Leggett and Platt, Snoring

Those of you who know Lay well know that he does love his sleep. I think I might have found him the perfect gift…but for $20,000 – $50,000 for an iPod compatible bed, I’ll be asking for donations. Lot’s of fun stuff is always announced and show cased at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and this past week’s show was no exception. Leggett and Platt Bedding Division introduced the Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed.

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So Long to a Pioneer

December 29, 2007 B. John 453 Views 0 Comments Mozilla, Netscape, World Wide Web, AOL, browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer

It’s hard to remember “pre-internet” times, but the dark ages did exist. The light was turned on in 1993 when a team at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications released Mosaic, the first Web browser to integrate images and sound with words. But alas, the end has come for Netscape.

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News for the Week Ending September 9, 2007

September 10, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 529 Views 0 Comments PATRIOT Act, Ohio, Marijuana, Mike Nifong, Duke University, GPS, Pot, Separation of Powers, St. Petersburg

This is a collection of shorter news stories from the week ending September 9, 2007.

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AWOL

July 13, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 558 Views 0 Comments Plugins, Upgrades, testing, Worpress

I have been working on planning for a major upgrade to the software that runs this site. They’ve made some major changes to the functionality, so most all the plugins will have to be updated. We use a lot of those here at Deep to give you the best possible experience, so that has all take some time.