Archive: 2005

58 entries. 12,021 words.

January, 2005

  • Happy New Year!. 2005-01-01 10:27 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    We are back safe and sound from our New York trip! More details and pictures will be forthcoming as I get around to it. 109 words.
  • Pictures From New York Revealed. 2005-01-09 2:21 AM.
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    I think I can at last reveal the pictures from New York. I ended up having to upgrade Galleria a little to handle the sheer volume of pictures. 183 words.
  • Recent Events. 2005-01-20 3:44 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I’ve been woefully negligant in posting news this month, so I’ll jot down some noteworthy events from Camp Forest Brook. 172 words.
  • Vick a Huge Disappointment. 2005-01-24 3:49 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Michael Vick sucks. If only he could have not sucked today, he might have beaten the hated Eagles and keep them out of the Superbowl where they belong. But no; he sucked, so the Eagles advance again by default. 153 words.

February, 2005

  • Eagles did not disappoint. 2005-02-11 6:25 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    My web host borked my first attempt at posting this, but I will attempt to re-capture the magic of what I first wrote. 82 words.
  • Chomper Update. 2005-02-26 12:21 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Today is a red letter day in the history of my teeth. Which is to say, today my temporary upper crowns were replaced with permanent upper crowns! This is a cool thing. 58 words.

March, 2005

  • Amiga 4000 Sold!. 2005-03-08 1:22 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    […]The last vestiges of my Amiga programming days just got sold on EBay. 44 words.
  • Pictures Fixed!. 2005-03-12 10:20 PM.
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    Finally got around to fixing the display of pictures associated with articles. 12 words.
  • Palm Sunday Kickoff. 2005-03-20 1:59 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Cynthia’s grandmother died yesterday after taking very ill a couple weeks ago. She was 104. It has been a very stressful time for the Millers up in Doswell, and everyone is thankful it has come to a peaceful end. 90 words.
  • The Aliens Came For Coffee. 2005-03-21 4:16 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    It occurred to me why I find so few things to write here. Most of the things I would be inclined to write about are off-limits because people I know might read the page. 292 words.
  • Nothing Made Up. 2005-03-22 4:12 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I suppose I could talk about some of my recent adventures. 274 words.
  • Goochland Express. 2005-03-23 4:26 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Went to Cynthia’s grandmother’s funeral today. Saw a lot of people who seemed to know me a lot better than I knew them. 265 words.
  • And The Winner Is…. 2005-03-26 5:58 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    We survived Holy Week okay (unlike SOME Christian icons who shall remain nameless…). By my count, including Palm Sunday and funerals, Cynthia has played for eleven services this week so far. There is an Easter Vigil service tonight and two more on Easter Sunday. 150 words.
  • Partying with the Krähenbühls. 2005-03-27 10:56 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    So I was up most of the night last night doing geneology research. So sue me! Anyway, I find it very entertaining and highly informative. 415 words.
  • Ancestry. 2005-03-29 3:19 AM.
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    The moment you’ve all been waiting for! I freely admit that I have copied a lot of information from other people who have done much more intensive work than I have. All my sources are credited in the footnotes, though. 56 words.

April, 2005

  • What’s In A Name. 2005-04-25 2:24 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I haven’t been doing very much lately except researching my family history. I find the whole process of piecing together concrete information from small bits and pieces pretty fascinating. Yesterday I actually went to the Library of Virginia and looked up some more information. 249 words.

May, 2005

  • Exclusive First Peek!. 2005-05-02 3:35 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    […]Here’s an exclusive peek at my Genealogy program. I’m writing it for the same reason I write all my other programs; I don’t like everything else that’s out there. I wanted something that’s easy to navigate in, and something that looks spiffy. 134 words.
  • ‘Wars. 2005-05-24 2:33 AM.
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    Cynthia and I saw Episode III Sunday night. Pretty cool. Way better than I and II. 66 words.

June, 2005

  • Tear Down The (Shed) Wall!. 2005-06-01 1:48 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Cynthia and I spent our Memorial Day in a relaxing fashion: We busted up our shed into a million pieces. It was quite a bit harder than I expected. 60 words.
  • Big June. 2005-06-29 2:34 AM.
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    June has been a BIG month so far, including, but not limited to: 1) leaving my old job, 2) a vacation in Chincoteague, 3) starting a new job. 37 words.

July, 2005

  • Expanded June News. 2005-07-08 12:29 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I haven’t done a significant update to my site in a while, so here goes. 600 words.
  • Work Happenings. 2005-07-16 4:05 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    On the work front, I finally received network access on Thursday afternoon! I can actually do work now. I spent Friday installing software and familiarizing myself with some of the source code. 434 words.

August, 2005

  • Extra Crispy. 2005-08-09 12:49 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    So Cynthia and I went to Tangier Island on Saturday with her family. It was pretty fun. The island itself was a little sparse on the entertainment side, which is understandable since it only has like 150 people on it. 124 words.
  • Categories Removed. 2005-08-14 1:33 AM.
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    Since I basically never write anything in the Site News or Crayola categories, I pulled them down. 36 words.
  • Scanning and flaking. 2005-08-16 12:51 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I have been feeling rather poorly the last couple of days, so I stayed home from work to rest up. While doing so, I continued scanning some family photographs. I have now scanned 739 slides and photographs. 81 words.
  • Mucus update. 2005-08-21 2:41 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Today is the 7th day of my most recent sickness, although since I began feeling badly last Saturday night, one could argue that this is actually the 8th day. This past week has been a complete and total loss for me, since I have been unable to go to work or do anything productive at home. And while I have been improving each day since Thursday, I have to say that it is really freakin slow improvement. 293 words.
  • Today’s News. 2005-08-26 10:08 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Today was particularly boring, being a Friday and all, so I decided to comment on today’s top story. I have discovered the joy of RSS Newsfeed Readers, so I now have instant news from around the world available at my fingertips. 158 words.
  • If I’d only had a Midigun…. 2005-08-27 9:36 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Wow these RSS Newsfeeds are awesome for finding things to write about on my blog. Now I can be just like television media and rip off stories from other sources! Check out the Midigun! 347 words.

September, 2005

  • This Week In The News. 2005-09-01 11:14 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    If you’ve turned on a television lately, you’ve probably seen that the Superdome in New Orleans has turned into Thunderdome. But you may have missed these other important news items from this week: 199 words.
  • Creativity Extinct, Creationism On The Rise. 2005-09-09 12:33 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    In my ever-widening search for news that didn’t make it onto NBC’s Nightly News, I have found the following information for you. 280 words.
  • Web Overhaul. 2005-09-14 12:57 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Remember a while back when I said I wanted to do a ground-up rewrite of my website? Well, it’s underway! Actually, it’s been underway for about a month, but it’s only just now starting to look like a working web site. 167 words.
  • Cats, Keyboards, and Crime-Fighting Grannies. 2005-09-15 12:22 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Here are some more interesting stories you may have missed in the swirl of, how shall I put it… crap… in the mainstream media. 157 words.
  • Water Bridge?. 2005-09-18 2:46 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I just got an email containing a picture of a “water bridge” over the Elbe River in Germany. The picture looks fake to me, but maybe I just assume all such email circulations are fake. I Google’d for more information, expecting to find a bunch of “urban legend” hits, but found only one article about it dated 10.10.2003. 79 words.
  • Firefox’ed. 2005-09-21 1:58 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I found this article on Slashdot comparing the number of security patches released for Internet Explorer and Firefox in the same time period to be highly amusing. Basically they are saying that Firefox, the allegedly “safer” open source browser, has released 2-4 times more security fixes in the same time period than Internet Explorer. Ha ha. 154 words.
  • Rita’rded Reporting. 2005-09-25 3:41 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    The level of absurdity in the news media is approaching mind-numbing proportions. I saw one reporter holding up a busted-up streetlight and talking at great length about how it had come hurtling down in front of them. Last night there was some “new video” of the aftermath of Rita being shown (on several competing news channels simultaneously). 209 words.
  • Launch Day. 2005-09-25 2:59 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Today I am officially launching the new site. 37 words.
  • Why I Like PHP. 2005-09-27 8:26 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Most programmers at my level of genius and experience scoff at the PHP language for web development. So why do I use it on my web page? 230 words.

October, 2005

  • Quake 3: Arena??. 2005-10-02 11:34 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    In complete desperation, I pulled out Q3A this weekend because I felt the need to frag something. I was amazed. 273 words.
  • Name Games. 2005-10-24 1:16 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I suppose it’s time to update the old web page. Let’s see if I can think of something interesting that’s happened lately. 195 words.
  • Failed The id Software Test. 2005-10-25 2:25 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Well I installed Quake 4 tonight and found that, not surprisingly, my computer is obsolete. 188 words.
  • Productivity Going Down. 2005-10-26 1:26 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I learned today that network security at work is scheduled to take a big left turn into absurdity next week. They are attempting to keep the developers completely off the network, because for some reason the higher-ups think they represent the largest security risk. We won’t be able to directly access the Internet, the database servers, or the production servers. 129 words.
  • Avoiding That Screen Flicker. 2005-10-28 2:54 AM.
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    I went to the Richmond.NET User Group meeting tonight. The main topic was AJAX and how Microsoft is implementing it in ASP.NET 2.0 with Callbacks and Atlas and whatnot. 305 words.
  • Redskins Pummeled At Halftime. 2005-10-30 7:38 PM.
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    Well the Redskins are getting their butts kicked. 20 words.

November, 2005

  • English Ancestors Found!. 2005-11-05 12:06 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Thanks to a chance encounter with FamilySearch.org, the LDS genealogy web site, I was able to document some more of my ancestors. This particular branch of ancestors comes from my great-grandmother Matilda Gray’s branch. (Individual I469 on my genealogy page.) I located a bunch of previously unknown information on the ancestry of her father’s parents, Joseph P. Gray and Martha Elizabeth Baker. 94 words.
  • Technical News Returns. 2005-11-07 10:32 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    This category had originally been for technical news about the web site. At some point, I realized nobody gave a crap about that, and I stopped adding to it. 112 words.
  • Tuesday Night Was Okay For Fighting, Too. 2005-11-09 5:49 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Since my computer at work is more-or-less frozen up while it performs a weekly virus scan, this seems like a good time to write something. 343 words.
  • Big Water. 2005-11-13 2:50 AM.
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    Neat. Our water main is currently spewing water into our front yard. If it weren’t for Cynthia going outside to check for mail, we wouldn’t have even known about it until the morning, when it would have been a BIG problem. 96 words.
  • Water Squelched. 2005-11-13 5:15 AM.
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    Front yard flooding fixed. Water guy replaced the old decrepit meter with a new-fangled electronic thingy. Gushing water is gone. 23 words.
  • Mediocrity Taking Over The Web. 2005-11-13 2:41 PM.
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    Nicolas Carr’s blog article, The amorality of Web 2.0, rocks. (There’s some technical mumbo-jumbo, but there’s also a bunch of regular English words I didn’t know, either. :) There has always been something about Open Source that has made me uneasy, but I’ve never really been able to put my finger on exactly what it was. 173 words.
  • Freedom No Longer Free. 2005-11-18 1:53 AM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I tuned into 98.9 Liberty on the way home today, and there it was, like a grisly, glistening shape rising from the fetid waters of capitalism: a commercial. I gritted my teeth as I listened, knowing it would be but the first of many, for surely they would group 20 such commercials together like all the other radio stations, and I would have to begin station surfing in vain, for it is well known that all radio stations synchronize their commercial marathons for maximum annoyance. But wait! 166 words.
  • Let There Be Lights. 2005-11-28 7:11 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Friday our neighbors were at it again. You may remember from last year that these retired folk constructed a Christmas light extravaganza in their front yard that would blind most ordinary humans. Friday, merely one day after Thanksgiving, they were blasting Christmas music (we’re talking Bing Crosby here) and stringing up lights again. 464 words.
  • Influential Songs of My Childhood. 2005-11-29 5:00 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    On the way into work this morning, I heard The Logical Song by Supertramp on 98.9 Liberty. Every time I hear this song, it immediately transports me back to my childhood (c. age 10), so I thought I would start a new series of web articles entitled, “Influential Songs of My Childhood.” This is the first installment in a series of X articles (where 1 £ X £ ¥) where I will delve into the reasons why some songs have struck a particularly resonant chord with me for well over 20 years. 536 words.

December, 2005

  • Overhaul Looms. 2005-12-02 5:32 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I officially hate the way my site looks again. 242 words.
  • Keep Boycotting EA Games!. 2005-12-05 1:45 PM.
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    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    Here is more evidence (as if any were needed) to support continuing the boycott on EA Games: According to this Reuters article, another game developer is suing EA Games for allegedly stealing his features and putting them in Madden ‘06. Admittedly, the features in question, well, suck, but the point is that EA brazenly stole them. Well, allegedly. 129 words.
  • Influential Songs of My Childhood, Part 2. 2005-12-06 4:31 PM.
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    Believe it or not, I heard (and didn’t turn off!) the Charlie Daniels Band’s The Devil Went Down To Georgia this morning on the way to work. It struck me that this was another Influential Song From My Childhood, though admittedly not of the same caliber as the last one. I guess this would be more of a Song I Remember From My Childhood. 477 words.
  • Photo Organization And Me. 2005-12-12 8:25 PM.
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    Why is it so hard to find decent digital photo organization software? 795 words.
  • Activists Unite!. 2005-12-19 8:00 PM.
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    I would like to point out the following two Slashdot articles to the throngs of technically saavy political activists that read my site. 122 words.
  • How To Read Op-Ed Articles. 2005-12-30 4:47 PM.
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    I’ve recently added some “controversial” feeds to my news reader (by which, I mean political and religious-themed topics) to broaden my knowledge base. I’m intentionally trying to add feeds that give arguments from opposing viewpoints (ie. conservative vs. liberal, intelligent design vs. science, etc) in the hope that some median truth might come forth. 653 words.