Thoughts and Ramblings

General things I find of interest.

Wine Tasting

Last Thurs, the Adult, Graduate and Off Campus Student Services had a wine tasting. We had to sign up ahead of time, so a few friends and I went. The had four wines there: Penascal Sauvignon Blanc Trentadue Old Patch Red Charles Creek Miradero Merlot Barros Imperial Ruby Port I have to say. I learned a fair amount during the wine tasting. I never tried much wine, so it was nice to do something I never really tried.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Monday, October 30, 2006

Visiting the Parents

Last weekend, I went to visit my parents. On the drive down, I listed to the first two chapters of The Rookie (beware: not for children or those easily offended). I am listening to the next chapter as I write this. Started off well enough for one of Scott Sigler’s novels. Can’t wait to hear the rest. Anyway, one of the reasons why I decided to visit my parents this weekend was the fact that my grandparents would be there also.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, October 12, 2006

Spammer

Lately someone has been trying to leave spam on the comments to this blog. Problem for him, comments are not displayed until I moderate them. Second problem, such attempts are logged. My response: iptables -A INPUT -s 205.134.172.128/28 -j DROP Bigger problem for him, I can enable the spam filtering. On the plus side, it means that my blog is being noticed; otherwise it wouldn’t be important enough to try and spam.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Monday, October 9, 2006

Power Outage Aftermath

Well, for those not in the area, the power went out last night. I had decided to meet some a friend and his wife for dinner last night at McAlister’s. I arrived there when the power was flickering. The power went out while they were still on the way. The problem for them: Many of the traffic lights don’t work when the power is out. To make matters worse, when the power was flickering, the lights would commonly shift from green to flashing red, causing many wrecks.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, October 5, 2006

Dealing with Verizon

I decided that I would not write about this until the entire matter is resolved; so here it goes. On the 10th, I saw that my Verizon wireless bill was $272. I immediately called them to find out what the deal was. Turns out over $200 of that was data changes since I used my phone as a modem for my computer. Well, I did use it, but for the first two years I used this phone, I was never changed.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, September 28, 2006