Author Archives: Jim Vanderveen

About Jim Vanderveen

I'm a bit of a Renaissance man, with far too many hobbies for my free time! But more important than any hobby is my family. My proudest accomplishment has been raising some great kids! And somehow convincing my wife to put up with me since 1988. ;)

Gönül’s European Bistro

My wife and I had lunch today at Gönül’s on ‘J’ Street in midtown Sacramento. In a word: Awesome! We ordered (and split) the artichoke ravioli and margarita (the pizza, not the drink), both for $8.95 on the lunch menu. … Continue reading

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DiskWarrior finally completed “step 5”

Sometime Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, DiskWarrior finally completed “Step 5: Locating directory data…” which gives an elapsed time of 200-216 hours or almost 9 days! It’s currently working on “Step 6: Overlapped files detected: 146” which translates to quite a bit … Continue reading

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What happened to “Air America Radio” in Sacramento?

“Talk City 1240” is still broadcasting in Sacramento, but it’s no longer Air America Radio. What’s going on?!? Continue reading

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Web tools for keeping tabs on Congress

Some handy tools for US citizens, no matter what your ideology. THOMAS and Project Vote Smart. Continue reading

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Sacramento “Go” club

I was posting the next meeting of the Sacramento Go Club on the Sacramento Boardgames, Cardgames, & Miniatures Meetup Group, but this week for some reason Meetup’s software is giving me grief about the event’s URL. I’m guessing it’s barfing … Continue reading

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A Pending Ping Crisis?

Ping services in the news again. Joseph’s ping service, and my thoughts on the whole matter. Continue reading

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Still rebuilding my laptop disk

In an earlier post/comment I started running DiskWarrior in an attempt to recover my laptop’s failed harddrive. Still running after 47 hours, but no sign of progress (or failure) yet…

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Testing new ping service

I’m testing Joseph’s new ping service on my blog. Seems much faster than Ping-o-matic. Continue reading

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Boot options for PowerBook G4

A list of boot options for my PowerBook G4 laptop. Continue reading

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