Congratulations

Luke Anthony Dehler
Born 5/20/2006 @ 17:11
8lbs., 5oz.
20 3/4″

My nephew was born 1 day before the wedding. Congratulations Marcus and Stephanie!

I’ve been having an audio issue with my 700m. The audio wouldn’t work at all. At first I thought it was a driver issue, because the problem first surfaced when I reformatted the system. Upon further investigation, I realized that the sound was only broken when the screen was raised above about 20% from being closed.

So I called in a Dell support ticket Thursday to replace the onboard speakers, and someone called me Monday ready to replace it. During the replacement, he mentioned that the issue was quite common, and it was due to the fact that the audio cable were cut or caught on something. An image confirmed that (notice the cuts). This was due to the cords not being correctly placed back onto the motherboard (from when the motherboard was replaced).

But the support guy came and in about 15 minutes he replaced the LCD, which happen to house the onboard speakers. The new display is crisp and clear (and clean), and also fixed a sticky release latch that was an issue.

Works and looks great now, another testament to Dell’s support and why everyone should get as long a Dell warranty as humanly possible. And on that note, year 1 of 3 of my Dell extended warranty has passed. I will probably sell the 700m before the warrantly is depleted.

Friday, May 19th was my last day at Autodesk. It was a good two years, and I learned a lot. Thanks, Autodesk for the experience!

Since I sold my last iPod, I decided it was time to get another

Hopefully this is the last “I’m Unemployed” post I make.

Adding to the last resources post I made:

• On Autodesk’s job site (Still crossing my fingers)
• On Intel’s job site (Relative)
• On HP’s job site (Friend)
• Job sites Craig’s List, dice.com, careerbuilder.com.
• Vancouver city jobs
• Portland city jobs
• Logitech has a Vancouver office
• Tektronics has a Beaverton office

And opportunities in the Medical arena, thanks to Maurice:

• Regence Blue Shield
• ODS
• Standard Insurance
• ACS (for SW Medical Center)
• Providence
• OHSU
• Kaiser Permanente
• Legacy Health
• PeaceHealth

I’ll just have to keep looking…

I have an opportunity to be the “IT Guy” at my uncle’s nursery, and I’m strongly considering it. I’ll know here in a week or two max.