CNCInformation.com

Recently I was looking through the wanted ads looking for local jobs in the IT industry and kept seeing a need for CNC programmers. I thought I had heard of about every programming language known but had no idea what CNC was. It turns out to be Computer Numerical Control and is a language used to control things like lathes, mills, routers and such. Being an old wood worker and hobby nut you can imagine how cool I thought I thought this site was. If you are interested in such, CNCInformation has all sorts of information, tips and community to help you get started in using CNC as a hobby.

IE8 Blues update

I was able to get around the problem of IE8 hanging. I went to add/remove programs and looked for anything that looked like a plug-in and removed it. The one that seemed to do the trick was removing IE7PRO which is a pretty nice plug-in for IE7 that apparently gives IE8 congestion. I guess I'll live without it or wait for an update that is IE8 compatible.

IE8 Blues

Well, I'm having to write this post from the Opera browser.  I could have used Chrome or Firefox or just about any other browser.  Since I let the "upgrade" of IE8 go in, I am unable to access ANYTHING using IE.  The problem first reared it's head when IMDB said I had to load flash 8 or later.  I knew I had flash 10 on already so I knew something was up.  When I tried to reload flash it said it was already installed and sure enough I could find it and it said enabled.  After some poking around I found that if IE8 has trouble with ANY ONE of the add-in it put IE in a "special" no add-ins enabled mode.  You have to figure out what it is having issues with and disable them, restart IE and hope you don't run into any more.  At the moment, I am locked into a mode where IE won't even come up enough for me to manage the add-ons.  I'm quite sure I won't be able to uninstall or go back to IE7 and many other posts I've read seem to back that up.  Google around before you load IE8 and see if the problems have answers before you leap.  I wish I'd have.

More on the virtual wasteland

I am starting to warm up to twitter a little more. I still can't get the direct messages to work, my dropdown box does not list any of my peeps in it and I can't just type into the textbox. The reason I am warming up to it is that I am finding some useful places to follow. One is my daughter's school. They have a twitter account and send out school announcements. I like that.

I'm enjoying the heck out of FaceBook. I joined to keep tabs on my daughter and soon old friends started finding me. It's a great place to hit for just a little while and catch up. It could be a huge time sink if you let it though. I just have to get in and get out. I've found that using the web browser "flock" is helpful when using the social networking sites.

I've been toying with the Microsoft Office Live site as well but the real benefit is for collaberating with others and I'm having a hard time getting the "others" to move past email. I forget that everyone isn't a tech loving geek like myself. I have plenty of tech loving geek friends I just don't have a need to collaborate spreadsheets and powerpoints with them. We just get silly on FaceBook.

How can 90% tax make me happy?

When it happens to fat cats who mismanage huge amounts of money and cry to the government to bail them out, then grant themselves huge bonuses.  That's when.

Exploring the Virtual Wasteland

I've been spending some time lately exploring what the web has to offer. There are so many nooks and crannies to poke around in. I don't claim to be breaking any new ground as most of the stuff I'm checking out has been around a while and old news for a lot if not most people. I joined Face Book mostly to keep tabs on my daughter and not really intending to really participate in the community but before long old friends began to find me and next thing you know I have a fair amount of friends there. I still am not really comfortable with the interface on facebook though. It is very busy and not really that easy to use but I get by.

I have had a Shutterfly account for a very long time but haven't been posting too many pictures to it but I went to add some recently and found that they have added a nice share page that you can post pictures to as well as ad calendar, events, disussions and more. It is pretty nice.

I just jumped on Twitter today so I don't really know if I'm going to like it or not. I'll let you know more later.

I have to run for now but will update soon.

Snow in Alabama

It is pretty rare to get a decent snow here in Alabama. We got out earlier today to walk in it and take a few pictures. It has continued to snow so it is even prettier now. I'm a little too comfy next to fire now or I'd go out and take some more pictures. Maybe later.

Happy New Year

I hope all my friends and family had a great 2008 and will have an even better 2009.

I don't really have anything much more than that to say. It has been nice to have a little downtime as work has gotten to be hectic. They let a LOT of people go where I work and those of us who are left have had to pick up a lot of work with no extra pay. I'm not grousing too bad though because, as I said, a LOT of people lost their jobs just before the holidays and had to spend that time looking for new work.

I hope they all find something better and a little more secure.

Kirk out!