Meet the Wallace Family

This website is maintained by Jon Wallace for the purpose of sharing news with friends and relatives. Our immediate family consists of two adult children, Matt and Kathy, wife Pat, and a Labrador Retriever named Tom.

Latest Family News

First Christmas in our New Home

(Posted 12/27/2009) - We are celebrating our first Christmas in the new house (we moved in late January of this year). Holly, Matt, and Rudy came over Christmas Eve and we all enjoyed home-baked Sugar Cookies and Gingerbread Cookies (along with pizza and pasta).   ... More

Jon's Soapbox and Garage Sale -- Most Recent

• A Grass Roots Response to Big Banking Autocracy?
• A Video Is Worth a Million Words
• Thoughts on Obama-Birther Phenomenon
• Jon Stewart Interviews Jim Cramer
• Some Thoughts On Income Taxes
• Good Advice for Dealing with Medical Bills
• Michael Hirsh on the USA's Recent Decline Under Bush
• Thoughts on the Global Superclass
• Have You Read the Presidential Front-runner's Online Issue Statements?
• Reactionary Talking Points: Looking at a Claim of Criminality Amongst Illegal Immigrants in the USA

Tech-Talk

• Converting QuickTime MOV Files to AVI / WMV Formats
• E-MU 0404 PatchMix DSP ASIO Driver Fix
• Using ASSP on a WebHost when your ISP blocks SMTP Relay Over Ports 25 and 465
• JPEGCrops - Automated Image Cropping Freeware Utility
• Finding a Vista Driver for Your DWL-G122 Wireless Adaptor
• Set Up Broadband ADSL or Cable Account without using Vendor's setup CD
• Recover from Windows Live Messenger Server Error - Sign-in Fails or Contact List Permanently Offline
• Wireless Routers Die from Power Drop Outs and Excessive Heat
• Removing the Windows XP Start Sound
• How to Handle an Ink Cartridge Smart-Chip Expiration
• TCP/IP MTU (Max Transmission Unit): Diagnosing a Packet Delivery Problem
• How to Make DLink dwl-120 Wireless USB adaptor work with Windows XP

An Invitation to Join a Family Site Ring

I also maintain a multi-family website, called appropriately, TheFamilies. Since late 2002 it has been accessible to and used by dozens of extended family members around the country.

I would hope that as members of this extended family develop their own websites they consider linking to the URL's of theFamilies, and The Wallaces in Glen Ellyn websites.

If you are interested in having your homepage linked from ours please click on the "Jon" Email link and let me know about your site!

About This Site

For those of you who are curious about such things, this site's layout is controlled using a cascading style sheet.

Site content is maintained as a database of files, operated on by Perl CGI-scripts running on our website server. The smallest unit of content is a named box. Each box has an associated database content file and a corresponding css layout div tag. Box's are SSI included into a webpage template to create the downloaded webpage(s) that you see.

The CGI scripts I've created do automatic archival as new material is added, so that nothing is ever lost; postings just gradually move to the back. The site-search tool allows users to link to text-string matches spread across news, soapbox, and photo titles/descriptions.

If you'd like to be notified of changes to our news, soapbox, or picture-gallery content and have a news aggregator just click on the RSS icon at the top right of this page. Here's a link to the rss-html in RSS 2.0 syntax.

I should add that most free/ISP provided web-hosting services do not allow users to upload and execute custom server-side scripts. It was for this reason that I chose to use EhostPros Service, a California based company that hosts low cost individual and commercial sites. I highly recommend them (see external site links at right).