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Ben is 5

Tim Collins — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:36:05 +0000

Ben turned five! He had a “Ben 10” themed birthday party at Catch Air.

Favorite TV Show	->	Ninjago (1st), Pokemon (2nd)
Favorite Song	->	Matt Nathanson – Come on Get Higher
Favorite Toy	->	Ninjago Legos
Favorite Color	->	Blue

New Patio

Tim Collins — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:21:50 +0000

We replaced our old deck with a new patio. Check out the photos…

Alyssa is 2

Tim Collins — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:39:05 +0000

Alyssa is two! She had a Dora the Explorer themed party just like last year. She had a lot of friends at the party and everyone had a great time.

Ben is 4

Tim Collins — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:24:48 +0000

Ben turned four! We had dinner at “Happy Sumo” again, just like last year. He had a “Backyardigans” themed birthday party at Jeronimo inflatable fun center. The party was great, everyone had a good time.

New PC, It’s about time

Tim Collins — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:55:24 +0000

I finally decided to buy a new pc. My old pc is over five years old, so it was about time. I bought it from Cyber Power again, since I was so happy with my last one.

It’s funny how much things change in five years..

1 Core	->	6 Cores
1 GB RAM	->	8 GB RAM
74 GB Raptor	->	90 GB SSD
120 GB mirrored	->	1024 GB mirrored
256 MB video card	->	1024 MB video card
USB 2.0	->	USB 3.0

Check out the specs…

AMD Phenom™II X6 1075T Six-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport
8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory
Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 AMD 890GX Chipset CrossFireX Support DDR3 Sckt AM3 ATX w/ 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, IEEE1394, USB3.0, SATA-III, RAID, 1 Gen2 PCIe, 1 PCIe X4, 1 PCIe X1, & 2 PCI
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SuperClocked 1024MB EE Video Card
90GB Corsair Force 90 Solid State Disk
2 1TB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Raid 1 mirrored)
Apevia X-Dreamer 3 Mid-Tower Case w/ Window
700 Watts – XtremeGear Power Supply
Sony 24X Dbl Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive
Internal 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer

Peachtree Road Race 2010

Tim Collins — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:02:27 +0000

Another 4th of July, another Peachtree Road Race. This was my third time running this race and I finished with a 48:45 (7:50 mile pace). This was about 3 minutes faster than my time last year. I had a good start and the weather was great.

Alyssa is 1

Tim Collins — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:28:40 +0000

Alyssa turned one on Sunday and had a Dora the Explorer themed pool party. She has just started to walk and is a exploring every corner of our house. Check out these photos.

Disabling Dell Latitude D600 mouse pointer stick on Linux Mint 8 (Ubuntu 9.10)

Tim Collins — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:42:28 +0000

Sorry… have to geek out for a second. (This post is mostly for me. In case I need to do this again.)

Ubuntu 10.04 came out a few weeks ago, so I decided to do a fresh install on our kitchen laptop (Dell Latitude D600). All went well except for two things. The wireless connection would drop and reconnect. It happened often enough for it to be almost unusable. The second problem was the little mouse nub eraser nipple thingy in the middle of the laptop keyboard. When you typed it would move the mouse and then the mouse would have about a 30 second panic attack and you couldn’t get control of the thing. Typically the closer the key was to the pointer the worse the mouse would drift or wander around the screen. I searched for a while to try to fix both problems with no success. I did find this… Fixing mouse drift on a Dell Latitude C600 with a Sledgehammer

I gave up… and decided to give Linux Mint 8 a try. Installation was easy and wireless seems to be working with no problems. But the mouse drift problem is still there. After more searching I finally found this… Fully disabling touchpad in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

His solution worked for me. Here is the command I used…
xinput set-int-prop "DualPoint Stick" "Device Enabled" 8 0
I also added that command to my “Startup Applications” just like the other post discribes so this command will always run and disable the pointer.

2010 ING Georgia Half Marathon

Tim Collins — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:11:16 +0000

I ran my fourth half marathon this weekend and accomplished my goal by one second. I have been trying to get under 1:50:00 since this race last year. Except for the rain, the weather was great because the temperature was perfect. It’s a fun course that hits a bunch a different neighborhoods of Atlanta.

Bonus photo: After the race

Ben is 3

Tim Collins — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:43:33 +0000

Ben turned three! Yesterday, he had a “pirate” themed birthday party at the same gymnastics gym as last year. He had dinner at a hibachi place “Happy Sumo” for his first time. This morning he had a donut with a candle for breakfast. As you could imagine, he is a very happy little boy.