Technology
I realized I’ve been seriously neglecting my blog. Mike Rundle (@flyosity) posted a quick link to Barley showing they had Word Press support. I watched the video and was pretty impressed. WYSIWYG editing for a blog. I just GO to the site and can start typing into the web
Technology
Project #1 Today: BitCoin Today’s first item on the agenda was to figure out how BitCoin works and then invest some money into the thing. I had thought that anonymity was a cool part of BitCoin but it looks like if you ALSO want the convenience of sitting in
Technology
Work has been insane lately. Big projects all happening at the same time and things going wrong unexpectedly. I’m writing because I finally have a 4 day break from work. 4 days is just long enough to stop thinking about all the stressful things I’m confronted with during
Projects
I had a serious issue after updating my blog to the Word Press 2012 Theme. The font looked like CRAP on my home PC and my Work Laptop. Doing a little bit of research on the new Open Sans Font I learned I needed to go to: Control Panel >
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I recently got it into my head to migrate to AWS and Gallery3. As part of the migration to Gallery3 I stupidly converted all of my image resize versions to 640x480. This is pathetically small but only took overnight on the web server under my desk. With everything now on
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If the site appears to load a little faster and pictures download a bit snappier that's because I recently migrated from the web server under my desk to an Amazon AWS Micro Instance. I'm still running Ubuntu, but it's in "The Cloud"
Friends
As usual it's been forever since I've updated my site. I went to see all of those shows in the previous post and they were awesome. Especially Menomena and The Thermals. Say Anything was pretty sweet too. I finished a simple Android app that can be
Projects
Tonight I started and almost finished the framework for my first Android app. 1. Edit my manifest to give me permissions to receive and read SMS. 2. Edit my manifest to point to a receiver class for SMS events. 3. Create a main class to stop and start the background
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Thanks to a very helpful Devon Kerr I now know what parts of my PC were causing my prior trouble. I was running a Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz LGA 775 in an Asus Striker Extreme mobo with 4GB of DDR2 800 RAM. I played around with every possible video
Family
I haven't posted in quite a while. That time has been filled with all sorts stuff. I've been riding my motorcycle around, going camping and Jeeping, Ward's wedding, more motorcycling, and just hanging out with people around Raleigh and Chapel Hill. I guess I&
I have resolved to take a US History class and become the foremost expert on Thomas Paine. I will write many books and essays. I will refer to him as T. Paine in all literary works. I will laugh hysterically. That is all.
The new year is upon us. It has descended without warning. Well, ok, maybe I knew it was coming. What has the new year brought? Realizations, random thoughts: 1. I've been drinking too much and would really love to stop waking up hungover. 2. I am not really