Andrews Family

You might have noticed that drozmonkey.com was down since Saturday night. The short story is that my web host sent out an email at 4 PM which said that night they were moving ALL of their web hosting to new Quad-core Xeon servers. The email said that there would be limited down-time and I wouldn’t have to change a thing. Sounds [...]

We recently saw a new “Get a Mac” TV commercial that made Jenny and I look at each other and say, huh? It was their “Misprint” ad where ‘PC’ is calling PC World magazine to correct the fact that in a recent article they said that the MacBook Pro was the fastest laptop that they have [...]

A couple of months ago a buddy got his new iMac delieved to work. He let us watch as he unboxed it and booted it for the first time. Apple knows what they are doing when it comes to the initial user experience. It automatically tried to detect the wireless mouse and keyboard and when it [...]

I know some of you out there have been waiting for the full story on Black Friday this year since I had mentioned before that I was planning to camp out at Best Buy. This year I was shopping for a desktop for Jenny’s Grandma, a desktop for my parents, and a laptop for Jenny’s brother [...]

I’ve been using Google’s Gmail for a while and really like it. It has plenty of storage, an excellent spam filter, a good web interface, and access via POP3. Oh yeah, its free, too. POP3 is a protocol that lets email programs like Outlook download your email, but POP3 is pretty simplistic. It doesn’t update the [...]

If you don’t know what Black Friday is you can get the low-down here. For me, it started two years ago when I was flipping through the Best Buy ad on Thanksgiving afternoon. They had a super cheap desktop PC - $250 including monitor - and a laptop - $380 (first time I had seen one under $400). My sister was in [...]

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now, but I still stumble once in a while. A couple of months ago, after helping Lisa repair her WiFi setup, I decided that I should make my WiFi more secure and switch the security on my router from using [...]

Unless you are one of those people who browses around in all of the albums in our photo gallery for new stuff, you probably didn’t catch the latest 3 videos we finally got around to posting. So here they are:

Molly At The Hospital
Molly Comes Home
Livy Measures Molly Up

Some of you might be wondering why I [...]

Red really is a wonder dog. She can fetch the remote, the phone, or even a beer out of the fridge. But when Livy started eating table food, she wasn’t the only one. Livy liked dropping food on the floor for Red or even being so bold as to have Red eat it out of [...]

Our photo gallery, powered by the free open source software Gallery, has served us well. I spent quite a bit of time tweaking it to get it just the way I wanted. I’ve been pretty happy with it, but it still lacked a couple of things that I wanted. First, the slideshow options it provided were [...]