Deb and Conor

Conor Phillip Reilly at 8 weeks with grandma Deb.

Aidan Paul Reilly - One Month Old

Deb and I headed to Boston March 30 to see Aidan Paul Reilly who was born February 28, 2007.

Aidan is a hungry little rascal and lets out an indignant roar when you try to burp him in the middle of a meal. As long as you do not interrupt his meal time, he is a curious and good natured baby.

Aidan had gained 5 ounces during the previous week and now tops the scales at 8 pounds 4 ounces.

My Network Places / Workgroup not Visible

Ok, so I'm cruising along and I want to grab a file off of another computer on my LAN workgroup. I go to My Network Places, click the shared folder, and there is a hesitation then the window closes. I go back to Start, now My Network Places is no longer there! So I begin troubleshooting the workgroup and file sharing. This happened in early November as I reported in my blog and I was perplexed at it occurring again when I thought the problem had been resolved.

A few curious observations: 1) I could go to Start -> Search -> Computer and give a name of one of my workgroup computers to get to the shared files. So the issue seemed to be with the workgroup administration not the file sharing from the individual computers.

As part of my troubleshooting, I learned more about computer browser and downloaded browstat from http://rescomp.stanford.edu/staff/manual/rcc/tools/browstat.zip

Using browstat I got
Could not connect to registry, error = 53

After reading about likely causes for this error and http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/04/netbios-over-tcpip.html ; I went to all machines and insured NetBIOS over TCP/IP was enabled ( not default ). The problem seems to have resolved now.

For many years I have had a trouble free workgroup with all machines running XP home. This summer I added a machine with XP Pro. I'm wondering if the addition of the XP Pro was the catalyst for the workgroup issues.