Odd but Google does not seem to pick up on the chess club page. Nor come to think of it my home page though it has been up for years (I wonder if the https has anything to do with it):

https://sites.google.com/site/ddeane/

ddeane homepage

a retro simplistic homepage of no importance whatsoever.....currently putting together an old fashioned page o' links

CHESS CLUB OF CLAYTON (RABUN COUNTY) GEORGIA

Not sure how long it takes Google and other search engines to index this, but anyway, here's the info:

https://sites.google.com/site/chessclubofclaytongeorgia/

CHESS CLUB OF CLAYTON (RABUN COUNTY) GEORGIA

chess club page

Ah, my much neglected blog.

Created web page for Dad's chess club, while visiting him on vacation this past week:

https://sites.google.com/site/chessclubofclaytongeorgia/

Palm Pre

So I got myself a Palm Pre last week, after much waiting. I've been waiting with much anticipation since the Pre was debuted at CES last January. I have been using a Palm Treo 700p for the last three years; very satisfied with it. Over the past decade I've been a loyal Palm OS user: Palm VIIx, Kyocera 6035, Sanyo i500, Sony Clie PEG-UX40, Palm LifeDrive, and Palm Treo 700p.

My first week was a disaster. The Pre constantly went into "phone offline" mode, or had no network connection (1xRT but no EVDO, etc), etc. and the signal strength just bounced around all the time, whether I was at home, work, or the Sprint store. My Treo signal strength had always been steady and solid at those same locations. I returned the phone for a new one, but that did not fix the problem.

I turns out the problem was being caused by Google calendar; once I removed that, the Palm Pre started working perfectly. The phone no longer goes into phone offline mode. I maintain a steady EVDO connection pretty much anywhere. Signal strength is solid without too much variation.

So if you have a Palm Pre and are experiencing these same problems, and you are using Google calendar, remove Google calendar and see if that fixes the problem.

Below is the source where I found out how to fix this problem:

http://forums.palm.com/palm/board/message?board.id=webossoftware&thread.id=165&view=by_date_ascending&page=11

I found a configuration that stops the inconsistent signal (EVDO) issue that I was seeing.



Here's my configuration that gave me problems:

WebOS 1.0.3

FW CC1.1(90)

Fandango

Pandora

AccuWeather

mCraig

Facebook Contacts (default settings with ~50 contacts)

Google Contacts (default settings with ~20 contacts)

Google Gmail (default settings with Inbox 2500 emails)

Google Calendar (default settings with ~500 events)



Below are some experiments that I tried in order:

* Changed my Voice Network setting to 'Sprint Only'. I read somewhere on another forum this helped. Unfortunately it didn't help me.
* Updated my Network Settings. I read that this can help....didn't help me.
* Systematically removed each application that I had installed myself. With no "3rd" party applications installed I still had issues, no worse, no better.
* Partial erase...with no email, contacts, or calendar configured. This actually stabilized my EVDO!! I left it this way for 2 hours and my phone never went offline, and my EVDO icon never flickered once (as far as i could tell).
* I added back my Facebook contacts. Everything was still good. I left it for 2 more hours...phone was still acting properly.
* I added back my Google account to email, contacts and calendar. My phone instantly went back to jumping back and forth between being online and offline, and losing EVDO every couple of minutes.
* So I went into my Gmail account and archived all of my Inbox emails (yes all 2,500). I went back to my phone, did the partial erase, configured my Facebook contacts, followed by my Google accounts (email, contacts, and calendar). Once again, immediately after configuring my Google accounts my phone instantly went back into misbehaving.
* I then removed my Google calendar account. Bingo, the phone starting acting properly! It's been over 24 hours and i havne't seen EVDO go away once. My phone doesn't switch between offline and online.



Since then i've changed my email settings to sync every 1 hour instead of every 15 minute. This setting alone has helped with battery life.



I also figured out a way to live without my calendar until Palm figures out how to fix things. Google supports SMS calendar event notifications, and morning agenda emailings.

The Return of the Tampa Bay Rowdies

This was announced last week, June 19th: there is a new ownership group which has acquired the rights to the Rowdies name from the former owners, they will play in USL Division 1 in 2010, and plan to build a 7,000 seat SSS (soccer specific stadium) and create a youth academy between now and when they kick off in April, 2010.

Anyone interested in supporting the Rowdies should sign up here:

http://www.tbrowdies.com/

See my Twitter posts for other links, or do a Google search.

This is fantastic news for a lot of reasons. If you don't know why, you may have a gap in your knowledge about the history of North American soccer, and/or you didn't grow up in the Tampa Bay area in the late 1970's.

The Rowdies might be one of those very rare North American soccer clubs (along with the Cosmos and Galaxy) that is just as well known worldwide (at least amongst older fans) as it is here in the USA. Some anti-Glazer Manchester United fans have started to refer to their club as the MU Rowdies.

That's unfair to the Tampa Bay Rowdies since the Glazers never had anything to do with the Rowdies, old or new, and the Glazers are a big reason why there is no MLS club in Tampa Bay currently. But that's a story for another day.

Venture Brothers titles, cont.

Venture Brothers title adjustment:

http://mantiseye.com/?item=271

Names Are Changing(10:25pm EST)

posted by Mike

As may be the case, the AS Schedule seems to have changed the name of next week's episode, formerly Billy Quizboy and the Invisible Hand to Invisible Hand of Fate. It's also possible the episode was swapped for another but given the similarity of the titles I would imagine that Billy Quizboy and the Invisible Hand was a working title that was changed because it, perhaps, gives away something about the plot. I'm just making guesses here though. Either way you have been informed.

Venture Brothers episode titles

Upcoming episode titles:

http://mantiseye.com/?item=266

Third Episode(7:44pm EST)

posted by Mike

I know Shadowman 9 hasn't even aired yet, but the third episode of the season (after The Doctor is Sin) will be called 'Billy Quizboy and the Invisible Hand'. You may begin speculating on what will happen in that episode... now! Also don't forget the Shadowman 9 discussion thread right below here. Enjoy!

Edit (11:33pm): Thanks to Kuiosikle in the comments for mentioning this thread on PRoV which has some more episode names:

* My Dinner With Hatred - June 22, 2008
* Enter the Bad Seed - June 29, 2008
* Dr. Guymn, Medicine Woman - July 6, 2008

Sadly no source for these yet, but I'll totally add them when I find a source. The lack of pre-knowing all the episodes titles this season is kind of a bummer.

Update #2: (1:55am) - Nais over on the VB Wiki was nice enough to post his source, so I'm pretty confident these are accurate. Awesome sleuthing!