I have been neglecting my blog for a while. I moved jobs and have been busy outside of work with the kids. To catch up I will have to figure out some type of series to blog about. For now, consider this a “I’m back” post. From plane crashes, The “tonight show”, GM, and our Government spending money faster than we …
I have been running windows 7 for a while now. It has gone so well that I have converted all but one windows machine over. My windows media center I have kept with Vista so I did not have to change anything. My everyday development machine is now Win7 x64. It has a pretty small footprint and runs Virtual machines perfect. …
I’m finally catching up the the online world after being on vacation (well I’m still on vacation) but online for a moment. What an interesting world we live in. I took myself off-line for a while and found out that I really just miss information. Once back online I was checking email / facebook / IM / and news. Most important …
It is interesting that we take internet access for granted. I’m currently on vacation in Florida and wanted some online time. To gain access in the location where we are (man made island in Stuart Florida). The cost for a day is 8.00 and the cost for the week is 14.00. Since we are here for a while I got the …
www.hab.la and www.gazelle.com Hab.la lets you hold a im chat from your web site. Something similar to LiveHelp or Livechat but it uses your IM client (AIM, gTalk, etc..) Gazelle.com let’s you sell your old electronic items (or just recycle them). I was able to price out my old Samsung Blackjack.
Well I have had my MSI wind for 3 weeks now. So far it has been very useful and worth the purchase. I have already had 2 Operating systems on it. I started with XP which it came with and I’m currently running Windows 7. 7 has the advantage of being newer and works a little better with the (on / …
I was reading Mark Cuban’s blog post (One reporter ) and it occurred to me that we will have a major issue if local news papers and media go out of business. The majority of people who do not put effort into finding news will not get information. Mark’s thoughts were based on the media coverage for his business (“the Mav’s”) …
I am a fan of silverlight and I’m a bit worried about how it will pan out for Microsoft. Here is an article from /. about how Major League Baseball is pulling the plug from using silverlight. (Major League Base Ball drops Silverlight) I did not know that MLBAM also ran the CBS sports NCAA tourney and the Masters. It looks …
Just when I thought things could not get better with the Iphone after skype released the iphone app. I find out that Google Voice (Google Voice) is coming to the Iphone. I have been using Grand Central for a long time for my business number. Now that Google Voice has taken over grand central it will be great to have both …
The one thing that can really upset me is when my internet connection goes down. It’s not that I can’t live with out it, or have to have it. It is the process of fixing, rebooting, talking family members through how to reset things, or calling my provider. Recently our connection has been not-so good. It all started when I purchased …
I purchased my iphone in December, so far it has been great. I even have my wife interested in getting one. Recently my phone had the ringer on / off button come off. It is a chrome looking switch on the side and the chrome part appeared to break off. I’m not sure how, because I have not dropped the phone …
It seems I have been busy for the last few weeks. I’ve accepted a new job and resigned from my current company (RCM) During this time the project I have been on has kept me busy. I have also started the next phase of IISreporter which has more focus on admin and IIS7. I have also been busy with Kentico, Subsonic, …
I installed google sync today (Google Sync) I had been using Exchange for all my Mail, Contacts, and Calendars. So far it is working well. I was worried that I would lose all my contacts. I only had to back them up and move them to google contacts. Now to see if life is easier with out Outlook?
Over on lifehacker.com I saw a rumor that Skype may be coming to the iphone. What a great day that would be. I love skype for the ease of use and how it can be used for forwarding phones. I use skype out when I am at my families cottage. The cell phone coverage at “the cottage” is pretty horrible. My …
This may be one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. The web site internet archives see the link and look at your site. (Wayback machine) – http://www.archive.org/web/web.php The archive has 3 petabytes of data. It is housed in a Mobile Data center (Mobile data center) – http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp They can scale by adding more containers. Each container is …