Archive for July, 2004
My car is acting up yet again. It is a 1994 Mazda 626 LX 2.5L V6, which I have gotten a lot of use out of it. It has nearly 140,000 miles on it, and I bought it used in 1998 when it had 48,000 at the time. I think I know [...]
It turns out that the camera I got through Freecycle a few weeks ago does indeed work. All it needed was a AC adapter and a SmartMedia card. The AC adapter was obtained at Radio Shack, where they had a 6V one, rather than the required 5V, but I had the salesman [...]
Five years ago today and thousands of miles away, Melissa and I got married on a blisteringly hot day just outside of my home town and very few things went the way it should have. The only thing that mattered is that I married the love of my life. My life has become [...]
This weekend I reinstalled Windows XP Pro on my K6-500 PC that I had previously had K12LTSP and Win2kPro on. The reason for putting XP on it is so that I can use Remote Desktop to log in to it from my Mac running Panther so that I can use PC programs much more [...]
The formation of the lanthanide-tetraphenylporphine chelates seems to have worked well for the most part. The gadolinium reaction seemed to form mostly a sandwich complex. The erbium one worked really well. From a preliminary x-ray crystal structure it looks like it is exactly what I want it to be.
I am going to [...]