Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

...I am now doing the process of removing the old 500GB My DVR Expander from it, which'll surely leave it blank. And, then it'll be the process of bonding it with the new 1TB My DVR AV Expander. There was some thought on when I was going to do these… more »

So, yesterday afternoon...there was quite the thunderstorm. more »

If doing the same thing over and over again doesn't get you a different result, its time to try something different. Stanford’s Center for Narcolepsy plans to submit a new grant application for narcolepsy research in the $50,000 category. In order to… more »

I have returned from Penguicon 2010 (8.0), something I almost didn't go to. But, I'm glad I did. I saw lots of interesting panels and things, I met up with people that I only see at Penguicon.Why did I almost not attend this year? Well, last year… more »

This is the second last weekend that I can make the switch to Quicken Premier 2010, before my copy of Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe expires.It had been kind of annoying the last couple of weeks, with Microsoft Money warning of impending expiration and… more »

Supposed to be a deep fryer without all that oil....which is what drew me to it.Over the years, I have played around with deep frying.When I first moved out, I lived in this neat apartment with a gas stove. And, I tried the open pan of oil and a… more »

I kind of knew that I would go all the way this time, like I had done last year....the exception might be if TurboTax did something strange again. It didn't, so I went ahead and e-filed.Federal 2186, State 431. Reported sales tax was higher tha… more »

I might be addicted....ever since I got invited to play Spymaster.Since then I've started playing other twitter games, such as:MobsterWorld: http://www.playmobsterworld.com/?platform=facebook&refuid=17027471&source=direct_install more »

Or has it just died and gone away? The site currently says "Temporarily Closed" and "will re-open on Saturday, September 5th." Well, its way past that date. The last time I ordered was shortly after the bike accident in August, when I didn't have… more »

Back when ordering fast food online was new, Pizza Hut was one of the first. And, living in Columbus, Ohio....I could get Wingstreet wings along with pizza orders. And, all was good. Now I live in Manhattan, Kansas, home of the oldest continuously o… more »

Once again the stock getmail.php didn't work after a significant upgrade in b2evolution version.After a long and complicated battle, I have something that should work....we'll find out tomorrow.First I had to do was add these two lines to 'inc/_c… more »

:cool: Yay! Asynchronous twitter notification of blog posts are working now.What did I do? Why I upgraded to 3.3.1....Realizing that today is a holiday and the weekly backup of my blog takes place on Monday morning, I decided that maybe sometime… more »