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Windows Time Service on PDC

Whenever you are moving the PDC emulator role to another computer on a Windows Server 2003 network you need to make the following changes to the time service on both the new machine and the old.
Configure the Windows Time Service on the new PDC emulator

Open a Command Prompt.
Type the following command to display the time [...]

Vowing Was Never So Much Fun

This was a weekend of firsts for the whole family. It was the first time that Ellie and Sarah went to sleep over. It was the first time that Sarah ever spent a night away from both parents. It was the first time that Fern and I had been to Linden, VA. It was the [...]

Tulips and Easter

Why didn’t we do this 13 years ago? Thanks to my mom, we have beautiful tulips around our front tree to welcome in Easter. (Click on the image to see more pictures)
This has been a crazy, busy weekend. It started on Friday, which I took off (I needed a mental health day). Even though the [...]

3 Techs and Back to Renting

Well Comcast finally showed up 30 minutes after they first called. The first tech got lost, so shortly after she finally arrived, another tech showed up followed by the shift supervisor (the neighbors were most impressed, one of them even got a free service call out of it).
They tested this, and looked at that, [...]

As Slow as Dial-up

Well if you’re reading this post then you are very lucky. In what seems to be a yearly event, my Comcast cable connection is horrible. When it is up, sometimes it is as slow as dial-up, and at best it is at DSL speeds. We are supposed to have a tech out Wednesday evening. Frustrating.
I [...]

Chocolate Zabaglione Ice Cream

I ran across what sounds like an amazingly good recipe for Chocolate Zabaglione Ice Cream on a site dedicated just to ice cream. I would love to try it, but I have two problems. The first is that I don’t have an ice cream maker and the other is that I’m lactose intolerant.