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Wow - great weekend here. Slept in til about 9 on Saturday. Did some running around town (bank, farmer’s market, drugstore). Came back home and had tomato sandwiches with fresh tomatos from the market. Planned a cookout at a local park and got together with some friends (Phil, Liz, Chad, Julie) [...]

Though I thought about blogging about using the words “Ok” and “Okay” in my last entry, I didn’t want to fall down that slipperly slope.
So instead I ask for some inspiration. I have come to find out that I really enjoy writing computer programs. Maybe it’s some sort of primal tool making desire [...]

Not too much but the daily grind today. I finally got Remote Access Services (RAS) setup on our Windows network at the school. We had it on Netware until we converted our network, and I just got around to setting it up on Windows. I started on it yesterday, and being the [...]

I just added a new page with information about my cardinfo utility for the Cisco Aironet series of cards running under Linux. It’s a decent little program for getting signal strength, signal quality and link status of a card. It displays that data in one small window. I have a screenshot of [...]

So you all probably thought that I just ditched the whole python thing after my “wildly successful” system tray utility for Big Brother, didn’t you? Well, that is not the case.
I have had a couple recent victories at work with python. The first came when I learned that I needed to have all [...]

Well, I am finally doing it. So long to my home brewed blog. Welcome to the new, uh, new dowski.com.
It doesn’t look that much different cause I like the way my site looks. I read somewhere that orange never looks good on screen. It looks good on my screen(s). What [...]