I found a link to a radio station hosting the original BBC radio production of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Thanks to a link from Ben Fulton.

10:52:48 PM    

I have an Epson 740i printer. For the last four years I have had aggravating experiences when trying to replace the ink cartridge. The printer supposedly figures out when the cartridges are out of ink, but this almost never works. Then this happens, as mentioned on an excellent support page I found:

Ok, I'm trying to replace the cartridges, but when I hold down the ink button (first on the left), the print carriage just goes back and forth a few times but never stops for me to replace the cartridges. -- Epson 740 ONLY

There is a trick to replacing an ink cartridge if the printer doesn't believe the cartridge is empty. Normally (this part is documented under your printer cover), to replace a cartridge, you would hold down the ink button for 3 seconds causing the carriage assembly would come to the left allowing for cartridge removal. IF the printer doesn't believe the cartridges to be empty, then all that will happen is the carriage assembly will move right and left and not stop for you in the open area. THE TRICK (and this ISN'T under the printer cover) is to hold down the paper feed button (center button) for 3 seconds. This will bring the print carriage to the open section and allow you to replace the cartridges regardless of whether the printer thinks it's time to change the cartridges or not.

From http://www.sbcsc.k12.in.us/techsupport/printers/EPSON_FAQ.html

10:14:53 PM    

I found a couple of great resources recently for people interested in education: BYU's McKay School of Education has posted some excellent online lectures/presentations:

McKay School of Education :: Multimedia Library

The Indiana University School of Education has a similar page:

http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/ebrownbag/
11:50:51 PM    

I learned about an interesting keyboard system today: The Janko Chromatic Keyboard

It has actually been pulled out of the ashes and redone in electronic keyboard format. See the Chromatone 312 for an example.

10:24:25 PM    

I like how USB means all of the cables on your computer have the same connector, but is anyone else annoyed by how difficult it is put the plug in right-side-up? I am usually reaching back around the side of my computer to plug it in, making it difficult to tell if I have the plug flipped around quite right. And you don't get much feedback when you are plugging the cable in as to whether it is right-side-up because even when it is oriented correctly it still can be difficult to get it plugged in correctly.
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11:22:31 PM    

Here is a link to a list I am compiling of useful websites.

9:41:20 PM    

Tonight I was showing Mikayla my weblog so she could see what I wrote about Finding Rily the Graffe. She remembered that I have a link to A.Word.A.Day and wanted to see what today's word was. She noticed a link to the Visual Thesaurus and wanted to check it out. I was surprised to see that Visual Thesaurus is now at version 3, having recently been improved.

Once Mikayla saw how it worked, she wanted to put in all of her spelling words (like weather, breath, ready) to see what words would appear in the thesaurus. She tried each word and got a kick out of the synonyms it provided. What a great way to study your spelling words!

10:54:38 PM