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Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.comBlogger508125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-72232995994517688612020-11-28T11:14:00.002-07:002020-11-28T11:14:21.428-07:00Chromebook Offline Google Movie Stops at 9 Seconds - Solved I had a few movies downloaded on my Chromebook, for trips or other situations. Last night was another situation: m router was down as there was no power in the neighborhood.However, every time I tired to play one of my offline movies, the player would run for 9 seconds and stop. I'd see a little spinny circle, but no progress. Try to jump ahead: spinny circle.I tired rebooting. I tried Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-43917953640172586032016-08-23T16:57:00.001-06:002018-12-09T15:51:45.302-07:00My Personal History With ComputersLate 1970s - fascinated by the teletype and accounting computer at my father's office.
The computer was a big special formed metal desk, with an electric typewriter and a printing calculator built in. Below the calculator was a magnetic card reader/writer. Where the drawers on the side would have been was a big metal box. It ran simple accounting programs and simple mail-merge Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-56923647126287627212015-07-26T20:20:00.000-06:002015-07-26T21:38:56.562-06:00The Secret of Hotel Room Key-CardsHow many of you have gone to a hotel, and then suddenly, your card-key no longer works?
I am about to share a secret about these card-keys.
You know the keys - the size and shape of a credit-card, along with that magnetic strip.
After years of having these keys go bad on me, I wondered why I seemed to have bad luck with them. Yet, I didn't have bad luck every time - just occasionally - and I Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-5878937845459822062014-04-21T11:10:00.001-06:002014-04-21T11:10:31.809-06:00Colorado Springs - What Happened to the Intel PlantWhen I moved to Colorado Springs, things were booming. The city was a significant technology hub.
Compaq, HP, MCI, and a number of technology manufacturers including Intel. MCI was the largest employer in the region by a giant margin. It was one of the factors that lead me out to Colorado Springs.
Even after MCI took the major financial hit and shrank to the point where it was not even in the Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-68303227453313308562014-02-24T12:23:00.001-07:002014-02-24T12:23:45.849-07:00Steal My Sunshine - LenRandom song come up from my playlist: "Steal My Sunshine".
Not the first time it has come up, but it does seem to come up rarely.
When it was playing on the radio in 2001-2002 time frame, during my drive to-and-from Denver Tech Center, it was one of the newer songs that stuck with me.
It stuck with me enough that I decided to order the whole album CD from which the song was Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-90089503127356269982011-11-13T19:58:00.001-07:002011-11-13T20:01:46.521-07:00Song from 2 Broke GirlsLove the new TV series: "2 Broke Girls"!
We've been wondering what the song behind the intro was for a few weeks now. I tried googling it the other day, without success.
Tonight, we were watching How I met Your Mother from a couple of weeks ago on DirecTV DVR. And the end of the recording was the beginning of a 2 broke girls we had already seen - but it was still fun to watch again. The Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1169833687707780152007-01-26T10:45:00.000-07:002007-01-26T10:48:07.736-07:00New Hiking Group in Colorado SpringsThere is a brand new online group for people interested in hiking in the Colorado Springs area:Awesome Hikes and Adventures Hosted on Meetup.comAnd I offered my help, and I am proud to be an Assistant Organizer!Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1161968756105590432006-10-27T10:36:00.000-06:002006-10-27T11:05:56.226-06:00Blizzard DayWednesday was sunny and in the 50s. But there was talk of a blizzard.It seems it was a rare case of a large amount of moisture coming up from the south at the same time as a cold from coming down from the North. Around 12" were expected in my area. But it was also supposed to be very windy - making that unusual amount of snow even more troublesome. Work sent out a note during the day that we Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1161642023773238982006-10-23T15:53:00.000-06:002006-10-23T16:20:23.806-06:00Trip to VailSo about 3 or 4 weeks ago, I got a call on my cell phone. It was about a timeshare place up near Vail. It turns out some geocache friends had given them my name and number. As first I was going to be upset at the friends for giving out my cell phone number and just tell the timeshare people not to bother me.But I decided to listen to the pitch. They were willing to let me bring the boys. So Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1158276113276337372006-09-14T17:16:00.000-06:002006-09-14T17:24:58.810-06:00Balloon Festival 2006I went to the balloon festival again this year.I got up early Saturday - it was too wet to even set up the balloons - much less launch them.I got up early Sunday - it wasn't as wet - but the cloud cover was too low to launch. I did get a bunch of pictures of the balloons set up on the ground. Then I had to run off to meet up with another geocacher to do an group hunt. It was nice, as he had a Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1155323610102194552006-08-11T12:33:00.000-06:002006-08-11T16:50:04.250-06:00Apartment LifeWell, I'm all moved in.a little more than 2 weeks ago, I got the keys.The first weekend I started moving in. It was also my first official weekend with the boys. And it was my birthday weekend. And it was hot - Sunday broke a record.Well I decided to not work the whole weekend. I did work most of the weekend. But I took the boys out to eat most of the meals - as a birthday/moving treat. We Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1153754976603667462006-07-24T09:12:00.000-06:002006-07-24T09:32:44.956-06:00AnnouncementI have not done much blogging lately - and I've really let this one go for a long time.Part of that is that I've been spending a lot of free time and energy on geocaching. And to that end, I've done some blogging on a sub-blog about geocaching.But the other issue that was most worth talking about, I did not feel it was appropriate to air on this forum. That issue was that my marriage was going Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1145904318099665102006-04-24T12:10:00.000-06:002006-04-24T12:45:18.196-06:00Geocaching - My Clean-up EventI ran my second geocaching event yesterday. The last one was just a general get-together. This one was a special clean-up event.The main geocache site, geocaching.com, promotes both regular clean-up whenever caching and a special day once a year for a major international clean-up on Earth day. They call the clean-up a CITO, for Cache-In, Trash-Out.During my first event, a number of people in Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1144345815468852562006-04-06T11:21:00.000-06:002006-04-06T11:50:15.540-06:00Laptop SoundI've been living without sound on my Toshiba laptop since last summer.When I opened it up, I found the sound card was this tiny board, maybe 2 inches by a half inch. And it has this plug-in to the motherboard. The connector on the motherboard had come loose. Considering that plugging in earphones would cause mechanical stress on this top board, it almost seems inevitable that this connector Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1144094754038930402006-04-03T14:00:00.000-06:002006-04-03T14:05:54.050-06:00The Tax Man ComithFor a change we got our taxes done early. Early being 2 weeks before the deadline. The last 2 years, things were crazy enough that we wound up filing extensions.But this year we did our taxes on the most appropriate day of the year: April Fools Day - April 1st. Somehow it seems appropriate to me. I'm just not sure who is being made a bigger fool. Trying to read tax code, I think it is me!I'mKeith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1144036262298374802006-04-02T21:46:00.000-06:002006-04-02T21:51:02.310-06:00New Fab Four?I was musing about 'The Who' Music used on CSI and on the reference to the guy on the show who was collection famous dead people's picture, saying that he was going to put it next to his Entwistle. I laughed at the connection between the musician from the group that does their theme music.And it reminded me of the morbid joke about getting the Beatles back together, when there were still 3 of Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1143851008695304112006-03-31T17:19:00.000-07:002006-03-31T17:23:28.706-07:00Gecaching Adventure This WeekI started a new blog for my geocaching adventures. My first real entry on this blog was describing geocacing in some detail for those who want to understand it a bit better.Today I wrote up about a geocaching adventure that started with trying to figure out a puzzle a few weeks ago - comparing notes with other geocachers last week - then trying to find it Sunday - and going back again Thursday Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1142825230947105682006-03-19T20:11:00.000-07:002006-03-19T20:27:11.016-07:00Sunday - Almost SpringHad to take my big guy to a Jewish-youth group activity this afternoon. Went down to the skating place. They said - we don't know about that activity. Could it be at our other location [5 minutes back they way we came]? They called - it was. I didn't even know they had a second location. It is laid out almost identically.They play the music very loud at both places. Too loud for my little Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1140490407250631592006-02-20T19:48:00.000-07:002006-02-20T19:53:27.263-07:00Numb3rs, GPS, Apollogy and MoreSo this past week's episode of Numb3rs seemed to be designed specifically to refute my previous log entry where I said GPS is not part of cell phones.It seems I was wrong. I am sorry Numb3rs for my misunderstanding.According to the show, it seems that when the decided that for emergency purposes, that cell phones should be trackable, the didn't use triangulation from cell towers. The actually Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1139436805545160862006-02-08T15:03:00.000-07:002006-02-08T15:13:25.546-07:00Dish RantI opened my Dish (satellite TV) bill last night. In the last year it has jumped $10.00.First it went from $21.99 for the low-end channel package to $23.99. Suddenly the package has a new name, and costs $31.99.This is the same crap the cable companies pulled, and why we wound up going with Dish. One of Dish's major selling strategies was to point out how the cable companies were treating Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1139436198134711242006-02-08T14:40:00.000-07:002006-02-08T15:03:18.196-07:00NUMB3RS, GPS and Cell-PhonesI've been watching the last few episodes of the TV show Numb3rs. It is pretty good. It is nice to see a positive view of techy stuff on TV. We need to promote the sciences. And they do a very good job of not getting way too techy. If anything, they are pretty good at explaining some advanced math concepts so that an average person can get a feel for the concepts. I think I get to thank my Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1138736739714892842006-01-31T12:43:00.000-07:002006-01-31T12:45:39.730-07:00Google Maps - Something DifferentI found something different today moon.google.comLike Google maps, but showing the moon landings. I was curious if I could see any signs of human activity at the closest zoom - don't miss it!Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1137650221980906482006-01-18T22:46:00.000-07:002006-01-18T22:57:01.993-07:00Geocaching Meet in Colorado SpringsI am in the process of making a group for geocaching in the Colorado Springs area:Pikes Peak GeocachingI know, not very original, but it describes things decently. I like it better than Southern Colorado Geocaching.Right now, I'm just trying to get a group get-together going for next month. So far, the response has been very positive from other local geocachers I've emailed with in the last fewKeith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1135746769085029022005-12-27T21:15:00.000-07:002005-12-27T22:12:49.153-07:00Hiking Blodgett Peak 12/25/2005So Christmas day Sunday, but we don't do Christmas. And a day off Monday. No real plans until Sunday evening for Channukah. My toe finally feels well enough for a hike. Blodgett Peak has been calling to me for months - especially since I learned there was a geocache on top. So I get up a bit early - early for a day off from work - and head out for a hike. I don't know how far I'll get - butKeith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6539567.post-1135314032949795562005-12-22T21:54:00.000-07:002005-12-22T22:00:32.950-07:00Electirc ZooThis weekend we went to the Light Zoo in town. It was snowing, as it had for over a day, lightly, and one of the sets of friends who was supposed to go with us wimped out.It was cold - but we were smart enough to bring along hot chocolate, so that helped.It was fun to go to again. It seemed like there were a few more lights, but a few less electric animals.Keith Horowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290035949708750687noreply@blogger.com0