tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:42:18 +0000Andrew Cohen's home on the web since 1995 (through many incarnations, of course...)http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/andrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)Blogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-853945210899625301Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:09:00 +00002009-10-08T12:42:18.184-04:00I have neglected this blog terribly, but I wanted to get this out there because I know I'll forget and I know others will find it useful.So for reasons fully understood and accepted, my employer has stated that we may no longer use Windows 7 on laptops in the short term. The carrot is that we may run it as a VM if we wish. Fantastic! As I've done many times in the past with XP, I'll just P2V my http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2009/10/stop-0x0000007b-on-p2vd-windows-7.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-5966321143607274341Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:14:00 +00002008-12-29T10:18:20.055-05:00Yes indeed. My Hanukkah dinner. I mean, I figured we were already going to have the applesauce out, so why not?BTW... Kristi's latkes, as I've told everyone, were just as good as those made by the Hadassah ladies in the synagogue kitchen when I was growing up.http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/12/latkes-and-uh-pork-chops.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-452399302177679376Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:36:00 +00002008-11-06T13:42:23.558-05:00newshumorFile this one under "headlines you could easily have missed, but will be glad you didn't":From WSB-TV (Atlanta):SARGENT, Ga. -- Men take note: a blowtorch is not the same as a broom. Coweta County authorities say Galen Winchell set fire to his west Georgia home Wednesday as he cleaned cobwebs from exterior eaves with a blowtorch. Winchell noticed the blaze when he saw smoke pouring from the http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/11/man-sets-home-on-fire-cleaning-cobwebs.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-8963080909903091590Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:51:00 +00002008-10-30T08:01:08.917-04:00photographyaviationPerhaps you noticed some new thumbnails in the random set above? I have finally gotten around to editing and uploading some pictures from ATL in September and SXM (St. Maarten) in October. I still have some more from SXM to edit, plus I need to go through some from the Dobbins airshow as well as ATL this past weekend, so stay tuned!Here are a few of my favorites:'till next time....http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/10/latest-photos-up-on-flickr.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-107035730743795981Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:46:00 +00002008-10-30T07:47:11.139-04:00aviationThis most likely won't be where you heard it first, but no self-respecting (Atlanta-based) aviation enthusiast would let it pass... The Delta / Northwest merger was approved by the feds yesterday, and the pending lawsuit in California was settled. This officially marries the two airlines. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has all the details.Now then... this perhaps you didn't know: dalflyer (http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/10/delta-northwest-merger-approved.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-7572607346769991507Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:50:00 +00002008-10-13T08:01:24.352-04:00travelI found this over at Austin Mormando's Flickr page. Thought I'd do my own.Countries visited:visited 16 countries (7.11%)Create your own visited map of The World or determine the next presidentStates visited:visited 32 states (64%)Create your own visited map of The United States or determine the next presidenthttp://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/10/countries-and-states-visited.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-3208737739039912432Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:54:00 +00002008-10-30T08:02:02.066-04:00photographyaviationWell, I have officially checked off an item on my "to do before I die" list. Guess where I just returned from?There's more to come....http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/10/view-from-saint-maarten.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-3055321349585867038Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:54:00 +00002008-09-19T10:44:52.483-04:00humorpirateMy pirate name is:Dirty Roger RackhamYou're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.part of the fidius.org http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/09/its-international-talk-like-pirate-day.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-4271418023119818156Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:22:00 +00002008-09-16T07:49:18.146-04:00politicsForget what you think about politics, who you like in the election, or who's right and who's wrong. There is bias in the media, on both sides. Check out what struck me as a particularly egregious example from CNN. Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin may be a lot of things, but she's not ugly. Not unless it's CNN doing their best to pick the least flattering photo possible. She http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/09/media-bias-in-politics.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-8152661848217461226Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:14:00 +00002008-09-08T08:36:39.167-04:00humorpoliticsThis picture just made me bust out laughing at my desk, so I just had to post it:Who knew that Jammin' Joe Biden could boogie?http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/09/cruisin-with-barry.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-6487815835290152502Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:22:00 +00002008-09-08T08:36:52.684-04:00humorpoliticshttp://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/youve-heard-of-rick-rolling-well-heres.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-3389525579455386827Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:50:00 +00002008-08-20T11:53:07.824-04:00aviationtechAmerican is now offering WiFi on its 767-200's which fly domestic transcons. Specifically, the article mentions NYC-SFO/MIA/LAX. This is the same service Delta will be using, so it'll be a good barometer.http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/american-airlines-now-offering-wifi-on.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-922680960454021584Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:17:00 +00002008-10-30T08:04:07.292-04:00photographyaviationI was over near PDK yesterday and decided to take the camera for a few shots. It's been maybe a couple of years since I stopped by. They've really done the place up. The venerable Downwind Restaurant is still there of course, but the airport has built a park right next door to the restaurant. It's fun for the whole family. A playground, bathrooms, shady shelter, and an observation platform thathttp://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/planespotting-at-pdk.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-8179310396182868327Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:02:00 +00002008-08-18T19:50:04.396-04:00aviationI'm not a pilot, nor do I play one on TV. But I do intend to get private pilot's license one day. As such, I'm blogging this as a simple reminder of what not to do once I get up in my own airplane.Dragnet! I can't embed the video. Anyhow, here's the link from the BBC. It's worth the click.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7568045.stmhttp://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/note-to-self-do-not-fly-into-powerlines.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-6137580715029647734Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:37:00 +00002008-08-18T19:49:32.373-04:00humorThese two establishments are in a shopping strip near my house. I've actually eaten the restaurant's food before. I'm not sure why though. Actually, it wasn't bad. But I'll be damned if I take my pets to that vet.http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/clich.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-2736253237379985388Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:46:00 +00002008-10-30T08:04:39.201-04:00photographyaviationSlashdot has just published a link to some blogs/articles regarding photographers who have been harassed, ejected, threatened, etc for doing nothing other than taking what I believe most would argue are benign pictures. While the Slashdot posting doesn't contain any specific references to aviation photography, this type of nonsense is par-for-the-course for planespotters, especially post-9/11. http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/photographers-are-terrorists.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-8746064648031355082Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:35:00 +00002008-08-18T19:48:16.215-04:00techThis isn't really my usual fare, but I suppose it won't hurt to help get the word out. VMWare has a nasty bug in ESX 3.5 Update 2 that causes any power on, resume from suspend, or VMotion attempt to fail with the following error:This product has expired. Be sure that your host machine's date and time are set correctly.There is a more recent version available at the VMware web site: http://http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/vmware-date-bomb.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-954779894903434772Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:26:00 +00002008-08-18T19:47:40.403-04:00aviationtechBig news for Atlanta travellers: Delta will soon offer WiFi Internet service on its entire domestic fleet. And sooner than you might expect!Utilizing the GoGo service from Aircell, they'll offer WiFi beginning this fall on MD-88's and MD-90's (great choice, since the MD-88's currently offer ZERO entertainment), expanding to include the rest of the mainline domestic fleet by the end of 2009. Thehttp://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/delta-to-offer-wifi-on-domestic-flights.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-591400545382190335Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:02:00 +00002008-08-18T19:46:43.228-04:00aviationWell there's an interesting discussion going on over at Airliners.Net as to whether or not disaster was narrowly averted yesterday by American flight 2393, an MD-83 (N592AA) whose starboard engine went kaput at the worst possible time for an engine to do such a thing: during or just after rotation (i.e. the nosewheel lifting off). Personally? Based upon what I've read in the past, this type of http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/08/aa-md80-lga-atl-diverts-to-jfk-on-one.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-9185690014602106500Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:03:00 +00002008-08-18T19:44:34.858-04:00techWord spread today about cuil, a new search engine founded by ex-Googlers that is supposed to be bigger, better, and badder than Google. Frankly, I'm not impressed.First, it's slow as molasses. Now, I know it's day one, and everyone's trying it out, but it doesn't even come close to Google on response time.Second, there's just not enough information on the first page of results. When I search, http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/07/is-cuil-cool.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-6777424040002175472Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:45:00 +00002008-08-18T19:46:18.533-04:00aviationhumorMy wife was in South Florida for a work event, flying in and out of FLL. This morning before catching her flight back to ATL she goes to pick up a couple of donuts at the Dunkin Donuts in Concourse D... One for her, and one for her boss (who prefers totally plain donuts). So she picks two that look reasonably plain, points them out to the cashier and asks "What kind of donuts are these?"The http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/07/what-kind-of-donuts-are-these.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-3088866815412578998Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:58:00 +00002008-10-30T08:05:32.272-04:00photographyaviationI spent the past week in Tampa taking a class for work. My outbound flight last Sunday was delayed by 4.5 hrs for no particular reason whatsoever. They can call it weather all they want, but the bottom line I think is that we had no crew (likely our crew was on an inbound flight that had weather problems, but at a hub, that's an Ops issue, not WX). The flight after ours actually left about 2 http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/07/atl-and-tpa-photos-coming-and-few-of-my.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15359721.post-402243662614179358Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:27:00 +00002008-08-18T19:41:36.290-04:00adminIndeed, I've had this blog for a while, but I finally decided to dispense with my static home page, so with this purge and first new post, my blog becomes my new home page.http://www.mindspring.com/~andrew.cohen/2008/07/new-beginning.htmlandrew.cohen@mindspring.com (Andrew Cohen)0