Scott Gruby’s Blog

While this really isn’t a new occurrence, it is interesting to note who sold it and who bought it. Several years ago, I read about someone that creates a new email aliases for each website he visits. Since I run my own domain and can easily do this, I adopted website.com@gruby.com which lets me easily [...]

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I’ve not been a huge fan of either software installers or uninstallers, but understand the need for installers. Recently I tried out a program on my Linux box and used the installer to install it; I was unimpressed with the software and the mess it scattered over my drive. I looked around, but couldn’t find [...]

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I’ve now been blogging for just over a year. In that time, I’ve written about many random topics from politics to technology. The most popular article, by far, has been my review of the Garmin Forerunner 305. This article has been quite valuable, it appears to many looking at the device. All my other posts [...]

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Several months ago, I blogged about the Franchise Tax Board somehow losing my tax payment. For the last 2+ months, I’ve been calling them to find out the story and was promised a call back a number of times. No one ever called me back and I called them again today. This time, I got [...]

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The tip I received indicating that my TiVo’s hard drive might be dying could just have been my problem. We’ve gone 2 days on the new drive and it seems a bit faster and programs recorded after I replaced the drive haven’t skipped! We watched Saved without interruptions today whereas the last few episodes, it [...]

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I complained previously about the sluggish response of our TiVo after the latest upgrade and how it was almost impossible to watch some shows due to choppiness of the playback. I was unable to get a real answer out of TiVo, so I did some detective work and found that one of my connections on [...]

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A few weeks ago, my wife and I decided to see a Padres baseball game in the “new” stadium that our tax dollars helped fund. While I was skeptical at first that the location of the stadium downtown was a good idea, I was pleasantly surprised to find that a downtown location makes the stadium [...]

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This past week, I started learning about OS X server. The interface really confused me at first as there are lots of different options buried in lots of different places. After a few hours of playing around, I started making headway on figuring out what stuff did, but it wasn’t pretty. I then tried to [...]

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I’m a meat eater and proud of it. While I don’t eat meat (beef) all that often, when I do, I really enjoy it. My mom used to make London Broil when I was a kid and despite our best efforts at reproducing it, my wife and I haven’t managed to succeed, until yesterday! For [...]

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