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I know I am just wasting my breath, or needlessly exercising my fingers, but I have to approve ALL comments made to this web site so you are just wasting your time and mine when you post spam. It won’t get seen by anyone visiting this site and I delete them immediately. So, find some [...]

Ok, this is going to sound a tad cynical but for the life of me I can’t figure out why some people do this. Before Christmas I didn’t notice this but since, I got both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour over the holidays,  I can now tell the difference between someone who [...]

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Anyone care to venture a guess what day I could be driving a 7 ton vehicle at speed?

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 [...]

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById(“player1″).style.display = “”; var s1 = new SWFObject(“http://www.roaminggecko.com/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf”,”player1″,”408″,”326″,”7″); s1.addParam(“wmode”,”transparent”); s1.addParam(“allowscriptaccess”,”always”); s1.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”); s1.addVariable(“height”,”326″); s1.addVariable(“width”,”408″); s1.addVariable(“file”,”/videos/Blacksburg_MCI_Drill_2008_large.flv”); s1.addVariable(“backcolor”,”0xff8000″); s1.addVariable(“lightcolor”,”0xa9a8a3″); s1.addVariable(“screencolor”,”0xffffff”); s1.addVariable(“logo”,”http://www.roaminggecko.com/my_content/images/gecko_video_watermark.png”); s1.addVariable(“link”,”/videos/Blacksburg_MCI_Drill_2008_large.flv”); s1.addVariable(“showstop”,”true”); s1.write(“player1″); It didn’t look like WSLS was going to put the video [...]

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 [...]

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

Updated: May 5th, 2009 NOTE: Please read the entire post. I have updated this blog entry several times to reflect changes in both the GPS and Chipset software since I originally posted this entry. If you have any questions or problems leave a comment and I will reply back to you. Thanks! I thought I [...]