Carl Hutzler's Blog

I have had a few clients complain of not being able to attach with Wifi networks which they have been using for months and months. I usually fix it by deleting the password for that wifi network from their keychain. My hope is that the 10.5.8 release that was posted today from Apple will solve that issue.

See this Techcrunch article for more details.

Oh, and this is pretty funny at the bottom of the article talking about the upcoming upgrade process we will all enjoy going to Windows 7 or Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)….it gave me a chuckle. (click to enlarge)

….buy a bumper sticker

Back in March I was looking for a fun place to go for spring break. While most people think Florida and Mexico, I found a cheap flight from Dulles to Albuquerque (direct) for just $178 a head.

We spent a week in and around Albuquerque visiting the White Sands Missle Range, White Sands National Monument, Roswell’s Alien Museums, Carlsbad Cavers and even made it up to Santa Fe to visit my Aunt Terri and see the very nice little town. We had some nice food at the Artichoke Café in Albuquerque as well as several Mexican joints along the way. And if the kids had been into it, we even could have skied in Santa Fe or even up in Taos….it was cold enough and even snowed on us a little.

We camped a couple of nights along the way in a KOA campground in Alamagorda and another in Santa Fe. Other than that, we stayed in inexpensive hotels….inexpensive for NM is fairly good actually. The cost of living out there is dirt cheap.

Highlights? Well maybe sledding on sand at White Sands. Or seeing my cousin Terry and her place which I had never been to. But we also had fun in the Albuquerque kids musueum. Absolutely the best science museum I have ever been to. The displays were very unique and the staff was excellent. We really enjoyed that place a lot.

Roswell was fun too. A lot of UFO (scary!!) stuff going on. We went to the “International” Museum of UFO stuff and it was just as cheesy as I had hoped. Very fun. Roswell even has street lights with Alien heads on them.

Maybe next year we will head out for a week or skiing and see Taos.

How you ask?

Answer: Get rid of your cable TV.

But how will you survive without TV and Movies?

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Don’t know about the rest of you, but my blog seemed to load very slowly of late. I tried a bunch of things but could not figure it out and started to suspect my hosting company (1and1.com). Being Christmas Eve and all, I decided today would be a good time to find out.

I went with Dreamhost and signed up for their yearly plan ($10 a month…same as 1and1 business hosting). I heard they were a good provider and I was hoping that the speed issue was indeed 1and1.com and not my blog set-up itself.

My blog was hosted as a directory off of my main site (carlhutzler.com/blog). I wanted to be able to move the main site (my photo business) and the blog as close to seemlessly as possible. I was a little nervous as I had not moved a Wordpress blog before. My website was simple…just a bunch of html files, but the blog had a MySQL database with all kinds of data in it along with my configuration settings and even a little .htaccess rewrite rules for the pretty URL stuff.

I read up a little on the subject and decided to go with the steps after the break… Read more

Today my son was working on his homework and had to reduce a fraction. He wondered out loud if 61 was divisible by anything. I decided to type 61 into Google and was astounded to find an entire, very detailed page about the number 61 in Wikipedia.

The Internet has everything.

Whoever he is, he gave me a chuckle this morning :-)

Not that the Dems don’t do the same thing, but man, I have never seen such blatant hypocrisy and contradictions. Too funny.