Scott Gruby’s Blog

I received my Sprint PCS bill today and was pleased to see the slight decrease in the bill (about $6) due to the federal government no longer imposing the federal excise tax on most telecommunications. For those that don’t know, the federal excise tax was enacted in 1898 to help fund the Spanish American War. [...]

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Sometimes I pretend to be one. This past weekend, I finally decided to fix our toilet that seems to keep running as the flush chain keeps hanging. Since I had to muck with the toilet, I decided to replace the major components. It isn’t rocket science to do plumbing, but it is harder than it [...]

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The image CD I ordered from the marathon showed up today. I’ve put up the pictures for all to enjoy (OK, maybe just me). These images are for personal use only and as such, Action Sports International has granted me permission to put them up here. They have done an amazing job with the pictures [...]

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I’m not sure what to do now that I’ve run a marathon. I spent over 4 months training and that took up a lot of time. Now that I’m not training, what do I do? Get a hobby? Hmmm…I’ve been threatening to get a hobby for awhile now, but I’m a workaholic. Maybe things will [...]

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Today I went back to the cycling class that I haven’t been to since I started training in January. There was a different instructor today who seemed to have a thing for pain. The 1 hour workout made me felt like I haven’t exercised in a year, but then I remembered I ran a marathon [...]

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I’m in the process of selling my old PowerBook and in browsing the ads of others trying to sell the same or similar machine, I see people saying “lots of software” or “loaded”. However, none of them say that the original CDs/DVDs are included which means software piracy. I had one person look at my [...]

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This is a common line I read all the time in reference to software products I see on the web; most recently with Parallels. I’m not sure if consumers really understand that software developers aren’t catering to one person (in most cases). I fell into this trap with my NotifyMail program where I implemented every [...]

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Four years ago, I wrote a program called WirelessModem which let me use my Treo 180 as a modem for my PowerBook. This was, in my opinion, needed as the Treo replaced my Motorola StarTac and while I didn’t use it often, I could use my StarTac as a modem (it wasn’t pretty with a [...]

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I think I’ve determined why I like Legos. The ones I like are designed for 5-12 year olds; since it appears that I have the attention span of a 5 year old, it is perfect for me! Seriously, my attention span for things that aren’t work related is very short (I probably have some form [...]

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It seems that I keep visiting technologies or parts of projects I’ve worked on in the past. Recently, I had to deal with web sites and HTML. At one point in my past, I wrote a web server and learned a bit about HTML and how all that worked. While I was still in college, [...]

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