Ladewig.com

Someone pointed out to me that I never posted my Omaha trip photos. So here they are!

Omaha Trip Photos

StarWars.com has an article about the title crawl at the beginning of every Star Wars film. On the second page of the article they show the text for all of the films, including Episode III.

We did our part to keep the wheels of commerce turning Friday night. We stopped by the Apple Store at West County Center to buy Kristin a new computer. She is now the proud owner of a 20” iMac G5 and a 40 GB iPod, replacements for her G4 Cube and a 5GB iPod. We even bought a new printer. Apple and Epson are offering a $100 rebate if you buy a printer with a Mac, which made the Stylus C86 free after rebate. I was going to eBay it, but after checking the specs and learning it is faster than our old HP DeskJet 932C, we decided to keep it. So we’re going to auction the DeskJet instead.

Here’s a picture:

Kristin usually dreads getting a new system because of all the time required to move data to the new system, install software, etc. Migrating to the iMac was a breeze though. All we had to do was hookup a Firewire cable and connect to the Cube in target mode. The iMac pulled everything over and was basically ready to go right away. We had to reinstall the Microsoft mouse software and Norton AntiVirus, but that was it.

Just found out we’ll be able to auction her external DVD burner as well because iLife ‘05 will add DVD+RW/-RW burning capability to her SuperDrive. About time Apple!

While setting up the iMac and swapping the two Macs, I used this opportunity to redo all the cables in the office for the Mac, PC, etc. Now everything is labeled, wrapped, hidden, etc. It was such a mess, but it looks good now.

Vacation planning started in earnest this week. We never have enough time off to pursue all of the vacation ideas we come up with during the year, so we try to plan it out as best we can and as early as we can. 2005 is shaping up to be a pretty busy year.

In April we’ll be heading to Indianapolis for Star Wars Celebration III, the fan event that Lucasfilm puts on before the release of the Star Wars Prequels. This will be the third Celebration we’ve attended, and I expect this one should be the biggest and best of them all. On the way to Indy, we’ll stop in Fort Wayne for a couple days to visit relatives and check out the Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department at the Allen County Public Library, one of the best genealogy collections in the country.

In June, I’ll be heading to “Tech

I tested out the Xbox Live voice chat tonight (technically last night) with Steve (smig) tonight. Had to setup port forwarding for a couple ports (88 and 3074), and once that was in place, the voice chat feature worked just fine. Unfortunately we don’t have any games in common that work with Xbox Live. Looks like I’ll be getting Halo 2 sometime soon.

Some night I’ll have to try out a couple of my games online and see how it is. My gamer tag is Ladewig (how original), so say hi sometime if you’re online.