Contrary to popular belief, "Going Organic/Green" doesn’t actually mean becoming a hippy. Showers and regular haircuts are still welcome! Over the past year my wife has made some what I consider to be radical changes around our household that have impacted us and our surroundings in an very positive way. At first I rejected the [...]
Since my trip to Ireland last June I keep thinking about my heritage and what exactly I am comprised of. I think this is mostly due to the fact that I saw so many faces that looked so familiar in Ireland. These aren’t the faces you tend to see when you think of the Irish [...]
I have tried a number of different solutions for getting my iTunes library on my remote machine(s). Within my local network iTunes takes just a few seconds using Zeroconf / Bonjour technology to find my library and then a few more seconds to load the XML file containing the definitions my 60GB + of music. Until [...]
Carputer hardware installed and functional! I’m working on installing software and the additional peripherals now and then it is demo time!
Some smartass changed this sign around up on Five Mile Hill in Grand Haven. Can you spot the change? View from the hill:
How do I know when it is time for bed? I open up photobooth, and if I see something like this……I know it is time.
Last night I went up to best buy and with the remainder of my HD-DVD giftcard and some cash I picked up an XBox Arcade for our bedroom so that we can watch TV in there instead of having to go downstairs to the bigscreen or into my office every time we want to watch [...]
I created a page rather than a series of posts. Be sure to check back as I make updates if you are interested in this kind of thing.06 Pontiac Grand Prix CarputerÂ
I watch a lot of TV….I’ll just put that right out there. I pay for cable TV and with my multiple tuner Windows Media Center PC I make sure I get my money’s worth. I like being able to pick where I want to watch my recorded content on the fly. Living room, PC, iPhone, etc.. [...]
So it’s been forever since I have felt like writing a blog post. Mostly because I’ve been pretty busy getting things at OWL ramped up. I took 4 months off of contracting to get things going and now I am on another long term project out at Pfizer in Kalamazoo. But enough about that… I’ve [...]