The Johnson Blog

Ramblings of a geek with a few hobbies…

  • Another Project

    Here’s this weekend’s project, the white thing above the window…  more photos available.

    I also put Ana’s shelves up, but we decided to put them in the office to match the new window feature.

     

  • 1 Month Photos

    Today David is a whopping 1 Month Old!

    Since we want photos of each month of the first year, I setup the “studio” in our family room and Ana got him all decked out after a bath.

    The rest are online, check them out.

     This was the first use of my new light set (Victor KT750 3-Light 750-Watt Thrifty Photoflood Kit).  So far, so good.

  • First Project

    This weekend I used my new saw for something a bit more delicate than the workbench.  Decorative shelves for Ana’s sewing room!  So they wouldn’t look too crappy, I also had to buy a router this weekend (the non-electronic kind, who would have thought…).  I’ve never used one before but it turned out quite fine.

    Here’s one of the pair.

    More photos available.

  • This is what happens

    Every now and again, when I’m done changing David’s diaper, he ends up looking like… this!

    I know, I know… terrible. 🙂

  • How did they do that?

    We’re into month 2 of a writer’s strike in Hollywood, but ER is STILL ON. A new episode aired last night. What’s it going to take to kill this show? It’s on something like its 30th season, isn’t it?!

    Sure feels like it anyway.

  • Rough Life

  • Someone stole your platelets

    That’s what the nurse told Ana today after getting her blood tested.  Bad results, she’s down to 15,000.

    She was just about weaned off the prednisone, but is now getting bumped back up and will be tested again next week.

  • Mounting ISOs in Vista

    Does anyone out there have a suggestion for software that actually works on Vista for mounting ISOs? I’ve tried a few with varying results – from immediate BSOD on boot to nothing but a black desktop on boot (cursor included).

    1. MagicISO – This is the one that worked the best until a reboot. I’d just arrive at a black background with a mouse cursor – no login screen
    2. Virtual Clone Drive – Caused the Blue Screen of Death upon install and subsequent boot. Even in Safe Mode. I had to boot from the Vista disc, attempt a repair (which failed), then drop down to command line and rename/delete system32driversvclone.sys (I think that’s what it was called). Then everything came back up so I could uninstall this horrible excuse for an app. Note, I just realized that download page doesn’t include Vista as a platform. Oops. I had read others who were successfully using it on Vista so gave it a shot.
    3. Can’t remember what I uninstalled – I uninstalled it because ULead didn’t recognize the virtual drive. Now that I’ve ran into these recent problems I really wish I could remember the name of the software I was using because it worked except for the ULead visibility.
    4. Daemon Tools Lite – Yeah, this might have worked but is packaged with spyware crap.

    All I want is to be able to mount an ISO as a virtual CD/DVD drive. A nice-to-have feature would be for that drive to appear as a CD/DVD drive in ULead Media Video Studio 11 (edit: changed the name). For some reason MagicISO did (and worked until reboot) but others didn’t.

    Any recommendations?

  • Baptism Today

    This morning David was Baptized at our church, Little Flower.  Photos are up.

    Ana, David, and I thank all of the wonderful family and friends that attended – you made the day.

    * Church photos courtesy of Brian since I had my hands full and couldn’t get behind the camera myself;  thanks Brian.

  • Workbench Completed

    More photos available…

    I really like how it turned out.