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For me the nightmare began last night. I was on duty at the station and I looked down and the App Store application informed me there was an update to one of my apps. Since it was late at night and I was unlikely to get a call I decided to go ahead and update [...]

Well, I learned a couple of always valuable lessons today. Always, always, back up your WP tables. Second lesson learned, while posting from your iPhone may be convenient, managing your WP blog from your iPhone not so much. While attempting to get the WP iPhone app to work I made a test post. After a [...]

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It didn’t look like WSLS was going to put the video of the news broadcast that covered the MCI drill we had up on their website so [...]

MCI_Drill_028

Originally uploaded by gagegecko

Well, it’s over. At times it was entertaining, at others it was frustrating but in the end it was a good experience. It’s over and I’m tired.
Thanks to everyone that came out for the drill. It went as smoothly as one could hope and what we learned today when can use tomorrow [...]

One of the creatures I came up with tonight while playing with Spore. So much fun!

I thought I would take a moment to describe how to fix a problem that popped up with my GPSMap 60 this weekend in the event it happens to someone else who might be using this model. I have to tell you, GPS’s are great tools when you are traveling unfamiliar roads but it’s no [...]

Oh please, let Saturday be the last I ever see of this crank. Things are looking up already.

Well, I finally got tired of Internet Explorer. So I blocked it from viewing my site at all. That’s right, IE users will have to find some other site to visit and to be honest I won’t miss them at all. When someone using the IE browser attempts to visit RoamingGecko they get redirected to [...]

If you are a Flickr user and Mac user, you want to head on over to Eternalstorms.at/flickery and try their new software offering. It a free beta that will run until the end of June.

clipped from www.eternalstorms.at

I’m not making this up, you can check it for yourself. In her latest Obama bashing campaign ad, her campaign has just pasted their own title over a news article that is about something entirely different than the headline suggests. Of course, here is the link so you can check it yourself.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/182.aspx
Check this one out [...]