Category Archives: Random thoughts

How Facebook Will (May Have Already) F#@k You Up

Posted on December 11, 2011 by ricbret

Really, I’m not doing much here.  Just trying to draw your attention to someone else’s work on how Facebook’s recent bout of ill-conceived changes continue to mess with your privacy, your communications, and your ability to actually use the system … Continue reading →

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Nest Learning Thermostat

Posted on December 6, 2011 by ricbret

Last Friday I installed a new thermostat in the house, the first one since we moved in. Now the prior thermostat was programmable, hourly and daily you could configure it to heat and cool as you like.  It made a … Continue reading →

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My iOS 5 Update on iPad

Posted on October 13, 2011 by ricbret

Just finished the iOS 5 update on my iPad 2. Man, what a marathon. It basically needs to back up your data, reset the device, update the OS, then restore your data. So plan for a few hours to completion. … Continue reading →

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And about that moon…

Posted on January 13, 2011 by ricbret

Sometimes you just do things for fun. For the last four years I’ve produced a weekly podcast and occasionally written articles for a web site called Fanboy Planet. There’s no money in this, but usually it gets you into conventions, … Continue reading →

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Chuck

Posted on May 2, 2006 by ricbret

One nice thing about sincere friendship is that you don’t feel the need to appologize or explain.   With that in mind, I give you my friend: Chuck    

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Idea

Posted on May 1, 2006 by ricbret

Break the mold.  Don’t make sense. Just post. Whatchuthinkngabout? Mayday… mayday…   Every now and then you have to go back and enjoy the B sides.  The album cuts that weren’t/won’t ever have been/be popular enough to be played/rediscovered on … Continue reading →

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Insight

Posted on July 20, 2005 by ricbret

Want an insight into me?  Listen to the first four bars or so of Jackson Cannery by Ben Folds Five.  That will ALWAYS get me going.  Damn, that’s good piano.  The remaining bars are pretty cool too…

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Button

Posted on July 18, 2005 by ricbret

This one is just for Debbie and Justin.  Push the button Max!  It’s everywhere!

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Vacations

Posted on July 10, 2005 by ricbret

  are always too short.     

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Neighbors

Posted on June 30, 2005 by ricbret

The last of the "Five New Homes in Willow Glenn" finally sold so we’ll soon have new neighbors over the back fence.  Lovely home, often thought about buying it myself, would have made the move very easy…   Anyway, they’re … Continue reading →

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Diary

Posted on June 25, 2005 by ricbret

Lots of recently discussions with friends about the purpose of a blog.  It’s kind of asking about the purpose of a letter, or maybe even paper. There’s the question of what makes blogs real, and interesting when the whole act … Continue reading →

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UI

Posted on June 23, 2005 by ricbret

I am the IT guy for my parents.   A call from Mom, two issues: She needs to print out prescription information she got via e-mail, but the printer is shooting blanks.  Also, there’s something wrong with the answering machine, she’s … Continue reading →

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Grades

Posted on June 22, 2005 by ricbret

While we still haven’t seen grades, we did get two interesting school-related pieces of mail yesterday.  First, Justin passed both his CA State exams.  Passed is an understatement, he got 100% in 3 out of 5 math sections, with the … Continue reading →

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Quiet

Posted on June 20, 2005 by ricbret

Could our neighborhood be settling back down again?  Looking more and more like the low-lifes have been carted off and maybe, just maybe, their mother is looking to fix the house and put it up for sale.  Sure, I’m reaching … Continue reading →

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Fathers Day

Posted on June 19, 2005 by ricbret

Not waxing poetic on the day.  Nice weather. Got the gazebo assembled after going back to the store for a copy of the missing instructions.  Heading over to Dad’s shortly. He fell down again last night… a couple of times … Continue reading →

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How many times…

Posted on June 17, 2005 by ricbret

How many blogs have you gone to where the first thing you read is an entry about how the blogger is trying out the software, giving it a spin and promising things will get better. Well, this is that number … Continue reading →

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