I guess the problem with dealing with used/old technology is that you never really know the cause of failure. My mac mini seems to have taken a puke for the moment and I’m not sure if it was me overloading it with power, powering it on and off too many times in a row, or the hardware just plain failed because it is 4 years old now and sometimes shit breaks. Anyways…I am a bit frustrated and looking at used Mini’s as well as alternatives to the mini…::SIGH::Â
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 our recorded television. I also picked up a copy of GTA4 and without even realizing it I got myself another $50 gift card back for buying a system and the game at the same time.
As sweet as the short bit of gameplay I got in last night on GTA4 I was a bit frustrated because my xbox locked up 2 times. I’ve read this has been a problem for others with GTA4 so I hope there is a resolution soon.
In other news 3 of my carputer parts are out for delivery on UPS.com today! Besides figuring out how I want the Lilliput LCD mounted this should be everything I need for the install. I may attempt to start this tonight or at least lay things out exactly where I want them in the car.
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 streamed this live the other morning…more to come on this amazing phone!Â
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.. For a while converting into iPod/iPhone format was a manual task for me, when I knew I wanted to watch a show on the go, I’d go convert it. This gets old pretty quick so I devised a method of converting all of my shows nightly for transfer to my iPhone. At < 150MB for an hour episode (~75 for a half hour show) I can afford to convert and store all of my recordings without feeling like I’m wasting space. My automatic process works as follows.
So every night if I have say 3 three things recorded from the day before this process will convert them to iPhone format and sync them over before I wake up the next morning.
 Any Questions? Feel free to comment!
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 come to tell you about my current mac lineup beacuse I’m pretty sure life doesn’t get much better than this. I’ll list them in order of oldest to newest and explain.
Powermac G5 w/ 23″ Cinema (4GB of RAM) – Still an amazing machine used mostly for storage and watching movies while working on the iMac.
Original Mac Mini- Recently migrated over to OWL so that we could have a mac on site for testing and such.
13″ Macbook (2GB of RAM)Â - My wife’s fulltime notebook
24″ iMac 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo (4GB of RAM) – My primary PC that does everything from VMWare fusion software development to bitorrent and watching movies. I spend alot of time on this machine.
15″ 2.2ghz Macbook Pro (4GB of RAM) - Previously my primary notebook and now I am putting Windows on it via bootcamp and making it my development workhorse. Still trying to decide if I should go 64bit so I can take advantage of the 4GB of memory.
13″ Macbook Air (2GB of RAM) - My new beauty….oh is she amazing…my favorite mac laptop yet. A title previously held by my first mac laptop the iBook G4.
That’s all for now…pictures to come later….but judging by my post frequency you may not see them for another half a year 
Yup I am taking a demo ride of Apple’s new OS Leopard. Not a whole lot of new front end stuff. I can’t complain though…
I’ve been getting the “where are you from” question more lately than ever. So I figured I’d create an graph to represent my past employers in terms of length of time on the job.
Click on this thumbnail for the full view.
(Image taken from Lawrence Whittemore’s photos)
I was reading Hanselman or ScottHa as he calls himself these days. (I’m not sure he has enough power to start doing that just yet ^_^ )
Anyways the MVC stuff they are working on looks amazingly cool. They presented it for the first time at the ALT.NET conference and I think it was well received. If this is as good as it looks Rails might be derailed! Take a look at the following link for more information.
ScottGu MVC Presentation and ScottHa Screencast from ALT.NET Conference
