The Gomez Blog

I am always in the pursuit of handy little apps that can enhance my teaching.  In my math classes, I found myself explaining certain concepts over and over again, walking through the various steps of a problem.  I wondered if there was a way I could walk through a problem, record it, and make it [...]

I haven’t done a technology post in a while, but I wanted to highlight a technology that has changed the way I’ve used my computers.  Yes, computers is plural there.  See, I had a problem as a technology manager at Red Rocks.  The problem was that there were 5 or 6 computers that I would [...]

Read my recent posts on tithing to see what I’m talking about. FWIW, xkcd is normally hilarious and insightful, but occasionally a bit raunchy.  Read with caution.

I finally got my invite to Google Voice.  If you’ve never heard of Google Voice, you should check it out.  A lot of great features that I’m just starting to dive into.  I’m using it for my small web design business.  One thing I really like about it is that it transcribes your voice mail [...]

Don’t know if you’ve heard, but Google has finally (and a bit predictably) entered the OS market.  Or, rather, they’ve announced their upcoming entry, Chrome OS.  If you’ve been living under a virtual rock and don’t know about their Chrome browser, you should check it out.  Its super fast and runs Google apps really well.  [...]

I always make fun of people using blogspot (like my wife), saying they should be using a real blog app like WordPress.  The power and extensibility of WordPress is at times astounding.  And version 2.8 seems to be much improved in the backend.  But every once in a while, rolling your own blog can have [...]

I was playing with Photoshop, learning a new technique, and created these images to use as wallpaper.  I currently have it in 3 resolutions (1024×768, 1280×1024, and 1920×1080).  If your monitor is set to a different resolution and you’d like one of these, let me know and I can make it to fit your monitor.  [...]

So I have a 15″ laptop that came with Vista and I set it to dual boot XP with a third partition for shared space. Well, the other day as I was working on my latest web project for a local doctor’s office, my keyboard and mouse started acting weird. Every once in a while [...]

For any of you who have been tasked with supporting Windows XP, I thought I’d share my experience installing XP on some new hardware.  We got some Dell Vostro 220s for a great price ($420, Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD, 20″ monitors) which came with Vista Home Basic, which as everyone [...]

In the interest of full disclosure, I don’t like Microsoft.  This is just another reason why.  I got two new computers for our secretaries at church and needed to configure them.  They came with Vista Home Basic, which is basically worthless for our purposes.  So I was going to install XP on them since we [...]