Andrews Family

One of the biggest mistakes that most Windows XP users make is to always login as an administrator. (And by most, I mean 99%.) That basically means that you, and any other piece of software running, have unresticted access to the entire computer. It also means that your children are probably using the same account [...]

In American Sign Language, that is.  This week Olivia has repeatedly signed "more" when asked if she’d like to continue playing or singing or if she’d like more food.  We might have some false positives at first, but it is so exciting to see her answer a question!  We’ve been practicing our signs from Kindermusik’s [...]

By Vista, I mean Windows Vista, the new operating system from Microsoft which is expected to release in early 2007. They currently have it available for people to beta test and I decided that I’d give it a spin on my laptop. I installed it last weekend and so far so good. Windows Vista has a lot of new [...]

"Well, it sounded like a good idea…" I’ve signed up for a fitness boot camp through the fitness center at work that is run by a former marine. It’s MWF from 6-7 AM. Jenny said she’d never choose to get up that early for any reason, let alone for a workout, so she is looking at signing [...]

A quick update on Nathan - he is now in Iraq and working hard to learn all he can so that he can keep everyone safe (he’s the Intelligence Officer for his Batallion). He said that the NU v. USC game is being played on Armed Forces Network this weekend, so he’ll get to see how that one [...]

Olivia is off to the races! She started creeping around on all fours a few weeks ago and then crawled a few feet at a time, but in the last week, she has really started cruising. She can get wherever she wants in record time. It’s amazing how quickly she’s picked it up. And when she gets where [...]

Just a quick post to marvel at the wonders of technology. Tonight Jenny and I were winding down checking email and RSS feeds. On the laptop, I ended up chatting with my brother Dan in Iowa and my brother-in-law Galen in Nebraska. Meanwhile, Jenny was on the desktop chatting with my sister Lisa and writing emails. She got [...]

I’ve posted on a few tools from Google, like Picasa, Picasa Web Albums, and SketchUp. Well, www.writely.com is another tool which Google has acquired. It is an online word processing tool and much more. You can log in and create text documents or upload existing documents that you’ve made on your computer in Word, or [...]