Author: mkaply
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Seven Things
I never got tagged with the Seven Things meme, but it sounded like fun. Here goes: I’m a Dave Ramsey Certified Counselor. I facilitate Financial Peace University at my church and I’ve volunteered at seven Total Money Makeover Live Events (eight after this weekend). I’m a published author – IBM’s Official OS/2 Warp FAQs. It…
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Too Many Life Events
The other day I logged into IBM’s benefits system and received the message “You have too many life events.” I knew what the problem was – it couldn’t process both next year’s enrollment and my return from leave of absence (more on that later), but those words really stuck with me. I’m currently reading the…
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Time for Something Different (Well Not That Different)
The month of June has some particular milestones in my IBM career. June 29, 1989 was my first day as a co-op. June 7, 1993 was my first day as a full-time employee. And just about every promotion I’ve ever received was in June. And now it’s time for another one. Effective June 30, I…
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Floods in Central Texas
I don’t tend to post personal stuff on my blog (yet), but I couldn’t resist this one. Around SXSW I posted some pictures from the back of my house showing the river when it was low: and swelled from the rain (which it looks like most of the time now since we’ve had good rains…
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Firefox and the Windows Registry
So it ended up that it wasn’t that easy to switch our installer to use “Product Version” to determine what version of Firefox was installed, so I was asked to provide information on how to use the Windows Registry to determine the installed version of Firefox. Since that information is useful to everyone, I thought…