Mike on June 9th, 2009

In order to prep for the trip, I’m trying to find ways to update the blog while on the road.
Trying out Wordpress for iPhone now.

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Mike on June 9th, 2009

If you’ve been following my Facebook/Twitter activity, you know that Kayla and I are headed to Vancouver soon.  We’re turning the Dad/Dughter trip up a notch from the normal Port Aransas destination.
I haven’t had the opportunity (or maybe it’s just procastination) to do a ton of research for our trip.  On the one hand, I [...]

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Mike on February 27th, 2009

I just…couldn’t…resist…any longer.  The Steve Jobs siren song was too much.
Today I ordered my iPhone and I’m already plotting what I will do with it.
My teenager will rejoice in the knowledge that she will soon be getting an ATT Tilt cell phone (the Guentzel Tech Trickledown Effect™).
More on this when I get the phone sometime [...]

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Mike on February 25th, 2009

Common Craft put out an excellent series of videos that help folks understand Internet phenomenons.  The videos are short, concise and very useful for those who want to learn about something in a hurry.  I really enjoy the style in which they do it too.
They’ve also done Social Networking in Plain English, Wikis in Plain [...]

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Mike on February 21st, 2009

I started this post one evening after one too many glasses of wine, so I thought I would rescue it since it is pretty applicable to why I’m doing things differently these days (I’ve decided I’ll dub it Guentzel Change 2009™).  Facebook is something that has exploded in popularity in the past few years as [...]

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Mike on October 9th, 2008

Dad came over last night to borrow a computer.  The kids were asleep, so I just happened to walk out the front door as he was driving up.  What followed was more or less a typical conversation with my dad.  Here’s a brief snippet:

Me:  Here’s the computer.  it has everything you need.  If you have [...]

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Mike on April 23rd, 2008

Well, my aforementioned technology crisis has improved in the past few days. Unfortunately the iPod repair fairy did not visit my busted iPod and fix it. However, I did get another motherboard in and restored my old system. It’s not as super fantastic as the board I was trying to install, but [...]

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