Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category:
Twitter updates
- I played through killzone 2 in one sitting yesterday. I dont think i have ever done that with any game before. It wasnt that good. #
- What is your favorite pancake mix? I have never made pancakes before. #
- Finally getting around to merging my old Hotmail and Yahoo mail accounts into my gmail. And it appears google apps is down! booo #
- @krunk4ever no back story. I thought it would be interesting to pay and then just leave and see what happens. maybe make somebody’s day good #
- Tip of the day: dont leave batteries in stored electronics. I just found a bunch of battery acid in my Sony Walkman. #
- Installing ubuntu umpc on my tablet pc. So far I like most of it. Need to actually get the tablet function working though. #
- Catching up on a month of missed Chuck. Hulu really is run by aliens. I can feel my brain turning to mush as I ty #
- I dare you to sing Bohemian Rhapsody replacing every word (and instrument) with “meow”. You’ll feel btter, I promise. #
- Boo for dealing with stolen laptops at work. 3 machines so far this week. Tip of the day: don’t leave your stuff unattended or lock it down! #
- Spending the afternoon making a jog wheel http://tinyurl.com/6xyv2e #
- Yay! Finally unlocked the endless set list in rock band 2. #
- Taking another Japanese lesson with Rosey. #
- Just bought my first $30 Blu-ray movie, the original matrix. I could have found it cheaper but I had a gift card I needed to use. #
Twitter updates
- What do you guys think of blogs that have twitter updates (weekly or daily)? I keep going back and forth on the idea for my own site #
- Tis a good day for a overdue oil change. #
- @linuxing I love the Ong Bak movies. I bought the first one after watching it. You may like district b13 too. not as good but fun too. in reply to linuxing #
- @revash thanks for the tip. I have heard of AMSOIL before but never tried it. I recently switched from Royal Purple to Castrol for cost #
- @revash at the price of AMSOIL I will defiantly try it on my next oil change though. 7,500+ miles sounds great! #
- Looking at properties today. Hopfully there will be something good…and in our price range. #
- heck ya! free quiznos torpedo with purchase of torpedo combo. get the coupon at toastytorpedo.com #
- PS3 firmware 2.70 is now out. Not all the features i was hoping for but good that they keep it updated. #
- tip of the day: be very careful when using scissors as pliers to reach fallen cables behind desks. #
- @HPalpant – welcome to twitter. It didnt take you as long to give in as it did for me to give in to friendface, i mean facebook #
- If you pulled up to a gas pump and someone else prepaid (on purpose or accident is unknown) would you still pump gas on their dime? #
- Tonight’s “eat the world” is at inka trails in claremont. Lets see how Peruvian food is. No goat on the menu this week.
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Video Podcast 2
Here is just a update since my first video podcast. Not super interesting but I am trying to stick to my resolutions.
Too bad YouTube only allows 10 minute videos. Here is the second part.
BTW I am looking to sell my 1 TB external hard drive and my 500 GB Buffalo Linkstation. If you are interested send me a email.
Mythtv Log
I decided I needed a better way to keep track of myth MythTV systems I have used in the past, and what I needed to do to get the systems up and running. I started a MythTV Log page that should show up on the left (or the links section depending on my skin). I mainly posted this to help other people that are setting up their own MythTV computers using similar hardware. Check out the hardware I am using, and have used in the past, by looking through the logs.
Let me know if you have any good tips on keeping installation logs organized. I am fairly new to all this.
Video Podcast 01
Go easy on me it was my first time.
I just take a few minutes to explain how the beginning of my year has been so far and what I have been playing around with.
Let me know which you like better…Vidcast or Vodcast. I am kinda leaning toward vodcast.
RSS feeds and you
I have been asked how to set up RSS feeds from many people in the past and usually it is so simple I don’t even think to post about it. But I feel like RSS feeds are finally becoming popular with the average computer user and I wanted to write this to help explain what RSS is and what it does.
What does RSS stand for? RSS is a acronym for Real Simple Syndication.
What does it do? Image you want to read the news. Now imagine it is 1949. What are you going to do? You go out and buy a news paper of course. What if you want local news, world news, and entertainment news on the 21st Academy Awards ceremony. At this point you have to drive around town and pick up at least three papers/magazines and now you need to drive home to read everything to get the content you want. Well what if you had all the papers delivered to your house? That is better right? But what if you had the paper delivered to your house and a butler that took the papers and cut out all the articles you didn’t want and recycled them to save trees? Then he laid out all the articles on your coffee table with your breakfast. That is what RSS feeds do, they are the butlers for our modern news.
Where did RSS feeds come from? In the past companies would use e-mail subscriptions to keep customers up to date on site and company news, and in certain cases e-mail subscriptions are still better, but when you are trying to keep up with site news instantly you can’t be bothered going to your email all the time. Of course some people still do like having their RSS feeds go right to their email inbox and there are plenty of ways to accomplish that as well. As a matter of fact Outlook 2007 even has this feature built in automatically.
Why do you want to use it? Well I don’t really know why YOU want to use it, but I use it to save hours of time when trying to keep up with friends, family, and technology. It also helps when I want to see what is going on at community sites like forums and blog comments. It helps even more when I have a site that doesn’t update often that I want to follow. It is hard to remember to actually go to that site but with RSS feeds the site comes to me.
What should you use for your RSS feeds? To be honest I have tried a lot of different software for my RSS feeds. I started out with RSSOwl, it worked really well but I found it limiting to only have my RSS feeds on one computer. If I wanted to read news at home I would have to remember what I read so I wouldn’t read it twice. I then moved on to Thunderbird Portable because I could keep it on my USB key and take it home with me whenever I wanted to read news at home. This worked well but then I wanted to read my news on my mobile phone and also on Linux/Apple computers. So I started searching for a web based solution that I could read all my news from and read it from any device that has a web browser. I started off with a couple small sites but then found Bloglines. I used Bloglines for quite a while but I had a bit of a falling out when they lost my saved articles and also when I saw this. I have been using Google reader for almost six months now and have been fairly happy with what it has to offer. The mobile version is a bit lacking compared to Bloglines and I have not found a good way to save articles for reading later and for future reference like I used to with Thunderbird and Bloglines. This should not stop you from using it though. Google Reader has lots to offer including integration with Gmail contacts so you can share articles with friends, very easy to use hotkeys, greasemonkey scripts to add functionality not already in Google Reader, and quite a few different ways to set up the view so you can read your articles the way you want to.
When it comes to getting news I can’t imagine life without my news butler. Because I got so long winded in this article I am going to follow it up with another article on how to set up RSS feeds with Google Reader.
Pineapple Express Blu-ray extras
Beth got Pineapple Express from Netflix this week and while I think the movie is funny it is not for everyone. That of course is not why I am writing this post. When I put in the Blu-ray disk I noticed something very unusual on my PS3. There was a bubble under the game section like I had downloaded something and it was waiting to install. Sure enough the extra was a Pineapple Express wallpaper for the PS3 that was stored on the disk. I of course “installed” it and the wallpaper changed to a background that was way better than the Pineapple Express wallpaper available in the PlayStation store.
My question is, does anyone know how to extract the picture from the Blu-ray disk or how to save just the image to the hard drive instead of having to install it on the PS3? I would like to have the picture on my computer but I don’t have a Blu-ray player on my computer and couldn’t find a way to explore the pictures on the disk.
If you know how to do it please just leave a comment. Oh and by the way, the deleted scenes aren’t that great. I haven’t watched the extended version but please let me know if you did.
My 2009 resolutions
I have never done this before either but I felt pretty good with my predictions so I want to make a few simple resolutions for this year.
1. Japanese lessons. I have the intro to Japanese with Rosetta Stone but I just haven’t put forth any effort into doing it. I plan on doing one section every other week until I am done with this CD.
2. Blogging. I have been content with how much I have been writing here on my site and I plan to keep it up in 2009. Three more things I want to put an effort into more though is micro-blogging with Twitter, podcasting with the mintCast team, and video blogging with my new camera.
3. Food. I want to make some changes to what and how I eat. I hope to try a new restaurant at least once a month, and I hope to eat more whole wheat/grain. If there is a option for wheat I plan on taking it and seeing if it has any effect on how I feel.
4. Be a better person. I don’t know how to do this just yet, but I feel like I could be doing better with who I am and what I am doing with life. Hopefully a year from now I will be able to say I am better than I am today.
5. Take a class. Currently I plan on taking a welding class in the spring but if for some reason I don’t take the class I want to do some sort of formal learning to help me grow.
That’s all. Let me know if you have any resolutions in the comments.