I've finally committed some small piece of time and mental bandwidth to "solving" the problem of making my (and our clients') web sites more mobile-friendly.  For a couple clients, this is a huge issue and we need a solution.  Here's a great article on Responsive Web Design, which is my current favorite solution: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/

Another sports season is complete.  The 6th grade team for Roscommon had some fun, won a few games here and there, and learned a lot along the way.  I'm really impressed with some of the player growth I see from the season opener to now.  Nice work, Bucks!

For less than $10, I bought a USB bluetooth dongle for my laptop.  Ubuntu recognized it right away as a bluetooth radio and started using it.  For a test, I paired my laptop with my Android phone, which was also easy and flawless.  What I didn't expect was that immediately after the pairing, a dialog popped up on the laptop telling me about a new network that had been detected.  The system automatically uses the Android Internet connection (cell data) without any effort on my part.  Sweet!  Bottom line.

My home server, which happily houses 8 years of kids' photos, all our 'shared' files, music, etc...had a hard drive failure over the past few weeks.  I finally got around to replacing the drive, which required me to dive into the use of mdadm deeper than I had before.  In the end, it was all good.

‎"Every community has problems. If you live in a great one, it's because your neighbors volunteer their time, beyond their regular responsibilities, to make it great. If you don't volunteer yourself, you're one of the problems."

One of our Droid X phone's had a problem yesterday, where it wouldn't respond to anything.  On shutdown/reboot, it got stuck at the red Motorola logo and wouldn't move past it...even after being on the charger for 10 hours.  I started looking closely at the phone, and noticed that the buttons along the bottom didn't feel like they were 'clicking' when pressed...they gave no response at all, like they were part of the case instead.  I started 'flicking' at the edge of the buttons with my fingernail, and got them to pop back into place.

I can't believe these guys are still successful, even rarely.   

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I'd been using this script to tether Android to Linux via Azilink, but that has stopped working for some reason, so I found another solution, boiled down and re-documented here for posterity:

• Install Connectbot on your phone, connect (via ssh) to your server, and login

For whatever combination of reasons, I haven't had any good luck in cloning Windows XP installations to a new, larger drive.  It just has never worked for me until today (sort of).  I want to document my success in copying a Win XP Pro installation from a 10gb VirtualBox VDI to a 30gb VirtualBox VDI.  It's not the same as moving Windows to a 'real' disk, but it's better than anything else I've been able to do so far.  

1. Create the new, bigger hdd (vdi file) in VirtualBox.  I did this as part of creating a whole new Virtual Machine.