Category Archives: Blog

Droid Performance

Posted on January 12, 2010 by mjpete

Now that I’ve been using the Droid for a week, an update is in order.  My love affair with this device is still strong as ever.  I’ve got my contacts fully organized, loaded a few GB’s worth of music and … Continue reading →

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The Droid

Posted on January 8, 2010 by mjpete

After 5 years using a LG flip cell phone, I’ve upgrade to the Droid.  The LG phone has been great and has done well by me, but it was really way overdue to upgrade to the 21st century. Here’s my … Continue reading →

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Now We’re Talking Squid!!

Posted on October 24, 2009 by mjpete

Victory is mine!!! I’ve been running the Squid proxy server in the house for the past two+ years. In our house if you want to get to the Internet, you have to point your browser to the Squid proxy. Otherwise, … Continue reading →

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Wordbook and Lifestream

Posted on January 13, 2009 by mjpete

Just installed the Wordbook and Lifestream plugins on the blog. If all goes well when I publish this post to the blog, my facebook wall will also receive the update. I’m using the Lifestream plugin to display any of my … Continue reading →

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Petersen’s went Mobile

Posted on March 1, 2008 by mjpete

This blog site is now mobile! That’s right, for those who couldn’t wait to get to a desktop, you can now read my blog posts from a PDA, Blackberry, iPhone or most any other type of mobile device! Just use … Continue reading →

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WordPress Upgrade 2.3.2 is Complete

Posted on January 31, 2008 by mjpete

Yeah! The upgrade to wordpress 2.3.2 was a success! I updated several plugins that I like such as gallery2 photo. I also added an RSS feed display plugin. So now I have Scouting news displayed in the sidebar.

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Spell Checker – Whoopie!

Posted on June 28, 2007 by mjpete

I got the spell checker plug-in working for this blog. Hopefully it will minimize my spelling errors! For fun I ran it against a few of my earlier posts. Ouch – I have bad spelling. Fortunately for me, I’m no … Continue reading →

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Setting up this Site

Posted on June 23, 2007 by mjpete

I finally got this site running close to where I wanted to get it. I managed to get wordpress 2.2 with gallery2 v2.2.2. I’ve settled on the K2 theme that is optimized with the WPG2 plug-in. This theme nicely displays … Continue reading →

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