Archive for December, 2007

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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

I’m frequently looking for ways to customize our computers at home and put the latest utilities and Windows Updates on each machine. One of my guilty pleasures is changing my computer’s background wallpaper frequently - even more often than we buy a new car. Speaking of which, most of the time I use Car wallpapers for the background image as the one thing I love more than changing my wallpaper is new cars. One good thing about TopSpeed.com is that they have Car Wallpapers for almost any car on the market… sweet!

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

My husband wanted to watch the Chicago Bears play Green Bay here in Chicago this afternoon but we have been having trouble with Comcast, our cable provider. They accidentally cut our service a couple weeks ago and they have been crazy about not wanting to get it restored for us. My husband said he would buy a last minute ticket on StubHub that he could pick up at the will call window just to see the game and then ask Comcast to reimburse it, hehe.

Anyway, he did catch the game on streaming radio from ChicagoBears.com and they are kicking Green Bay for the second time this year. Amazing! Favre is not having much luck playing against the Bears this year.

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

In the past few days I have been looking for a good health insurance quote because our health insurance benefits are running out from a professional placement firm I worked for until recently. I think I may have found the right offer from British United Provident Association (BUPA), providers of Private medical insurance for people like our family in which the two bread-winners are consulting, doing entrepreneurship, and I recently started as a real estate agent, with no deals on the horizon.

BUPA’s web site is actually a full health portal with lots of information and factsheets on various medical conditions. I will be visiting this site a lot in the coming years as my husband and I are nearing middle age and our kids grow into toddlers.

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

After my father in law has a knee surgery, we are very careful of him being hurt while walking, driving or taking a bath. So we are really looking for a new bath tub that he could have a hand bar and he could be able to sit down in the tub. One of my friends has recommend walk in tubs, this is one of the brand from romain active, she works for senior people and she has heard lots of good reviews about their product. I searched on line and noted there are lots of choices, the price is reasonable too, plus they have professional people to help and set it up for you.

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Coffee always can be a good gift, especially in the winter, when snow outside, who does not want to have a nice cup of coffee. A friend of mine told me that you can find gourmet coffee gifts on this website, their coffee are all hand picked, very nice and original! I am thinking to get a few holiday gift baskets with the gourmet coffee for Elizabeth’s teachers, I know that they did a good job this past half a year, she has learned a lot from them. So I am sure they would like to accept this as our appreciations for their hard work.

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EWEPS: Eric Warren Frost World Wide Web Experimental Projects Server

Welcome to the EWF WWW Experimental Projects Server (EWEPS). This site is intended to be a platform for my exploration of web technologies and as such parts may appear broken at times, I do not intend to put little construction zone icons anywhere, so be forewarned.

EWEPS is running on Windows 2000. If you'd like to try to hack this site or server I request that you let me know and I will let you let you put a message and/or link (in good taste) on the top of the page, so please start hacking.

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Successful hacks

None so far. Impress your friends, be a star -- be the first to make EWEPS go oops!

Update: The /var/log directory was found to be mysteriously missing on January 3, 2000 and certain services (like httpd!) would fail to start... Jon reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Linux -- we have applied all the security updates this time.

Update 2: Puppy has been running solid like a rock since, well, that Blaster SQL worm or whatever its name was. We've done fairly well keeping ourselves updated though I will admit not having done much hardening. Heck for all I know I am already a "zombie" for spammers etc though I doubt it.

Interesting tidbits and news

My e-mail ISP, Voyager.net, did not renew the cnsnet.com domain (which I have used for e-mail the past several years) so I snuck in and bought it out from under them. Not sure how Network Solutions handles this or how Voyager.net will respond. I hope to see my name on the Whois information in the next day or so.. check it out here.

EWEPS Showcase

This will be a bunch of junk where I try out different web stuff. Too get started, here's a animated gif map showing my building.

     Statler

The first is the eggdrop bot which sits in #muppeteer on EFFNet. Statler will generate pages related to conversation that appears in the channel and also periodically create other pages like to look up the weather and check the MapInfo stock price, meaningless, idiotic stuff like that. Here's a Java IRC client so you can say hi to Statler yourself! [Ed. note: Statler's been let go due to lack of IP addresses.. he may find a home via a host under hrandassociates.com in the near future.]

     Current Weather

This jpg is generated on-the-fly by my home weather radar kit and mapping software. You may link to this image in your own home page with my permission.

Also, here's an experimental Java animated version. This will take some moments to load.

     SVG Elves

Lots of learned and clever elves crafting magic with SVG, developed and maintained by a short, skinny guy who sleeps on my couch (not kidding).

     Elfcorp

     MP2K Magazine - The Magazine for MapPoint

MP2K Magazine covers topics on MapPoint and MapPoint programming.

     Will Frost

Links to resources on the web.

     MapInfo

Car .NET news and information.

     MapPoint Blog

A MapPoint blog.

     MapPoint 2009

Another MapPoint blog about MapPoint 2009.

     MapPoint Blog

Yet another MapPoint blog.

     Bugaboo Strollers

Bugaboo Strollers.

     MapInfo-L

Directions Community sites and news.

Humor

This might be a collection of e-mail forwards, mini-games and images, links to other sites, etc. of stuff that amuses me and might amuse (or offend) you. For starters, here's some stuff. Featured item is Stress Relief.

Life Tip

"There is no need to slump through life with a bad back. Massage chairs can give you daily relief in a way that no other piece of home furniture can. But a couple of minutes every day probably isn't enough if you aren't sleeping in a way that is conducive to caring for you spine. A foam mattress will conform to the shape of your particular body, and cradle you for a perfect night's rest."

Resources

This is the start of my portable 'Favorites' list.

About me

I am about 6'3" and like to swim. I might put a picture here, as well as a resume.

My e-mail address was on the top but since some people may feel dizzy without a blurb at the bottom for balance and to list a contact person here it is: e-mail.