So who knew having 1.5 jobs and a new baby would keep me from using this site much? Probably everyone but me. Truth is though the main thing that’s kept me from posting here has to do with Facebook. Well, Facebook and a lack of time to deal with the issues. Basically I had connected this site to my Facebook wall so that anything I posted here would show up there, but I’ve become increasingly disenchanted with Facebook to the point where I don’t want much to do with them, so I needed to disconnect the site. On the occasions when I’ve had time to deal with that I either wasn’t at a machine where I could do it (I only allow a virtual machine at work to connect to them at this point), or I bounced off the changes they made to their interface and backed out. Yesterday I finally took the time to disconnect things. The intent is to return to using this space. We’ll see if I can live up to it.
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The littlest Giants fan
The littlest New York Giants fan
Latest in a series. I’ve been doing a bad job keeping this updated, but Susan’s been plugging away at it, uploading new photos of Brady on a regular basis to the image gallery on this site. She started month three of the gallery not long ago – check it out here.
(Thanks, btw, to the Lord family for the awesome giants getup. There’s also a bib that he’s not wearing in this shot).
This is what it’s all about folks
Brady smiling, captured on camera for the first time
Anyone up for some skating?
My driveway is covered in a ~3″ thick sheet of ice
Soolin in the snow
Soolin refuses to come in out of the storm. She was having too much fun and wanted to go to the wayback of our yard
No audio over hdmi on windows 7? Solution:
I bought a new monitor and am replacing my 5.1 speaker set with speakers built into the monitor – basically I’m reducing clutter on my desk and am going to use headphones when I want quality audio from the computer. Having a baby changes your priorities 😉
The problem was, when I got everything wired up, I had no audio coming from the computer. Ultimately this boiled down to a driver issue that’s related to the fact that when you’re using HDMI, your video card is responsible for delivering the audio to your output device. I had to update my realtek audio drivers, disable all devices, then restart the machine and reconfigure, before I could get audio out. I found this forum thread helpful, as well as this image illustrating the three places you need to make changes to your system configuration in order to get audio out.
While this is a driver issue ultimately I blame Microsoft for this – it’s hard to imagine making something as simple as ‘I want sound from my computer’ more complex.
Posting this in case it’s helpful to others.
Video shrunken/ not fullscreen using an HDMI cable? Solution:
I bought a new monitor and connected it to my video card via HDMI. The video output was shrunken, with ~1″ black borders all around the screen. At first I thought the monitor was defective but I tested using a DVI cable and the display was fine. Much googling later, I figured out it’s an issue with ATI/AMD’s catalyst control center. Basically you have to set overscan to 0% in the catalyst control center to rid yourself of this issue, something that’s not at all intuitive – even finding where to change that setting is a chore. This post on aoclarkejr.com was super helpful and has pictures of each step you need to take. I found that via this forum thread. Posting this just in case it helps others solve this issue.
Karen’s birthday
Karen blowing out the candles on her birthday cake
Brady’s an opinionated little fellow already
What Brady thinks of how he takes his meals
Dave's Place/Metamusing 
