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Month: March 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-29
- Living the dream. In Tampa for work this week. #
- Using Digsby for IM, Email, and Twitter – http://twitter.digsby.com #
- Just sitting at home resting after digging out the Driveway from snow. Blizzard yesterday – 60 degree sunny weather today – Colorado is … #
- Working on RC planes today – Hope to get my F4U Corsair on it’s way to it’s first flight. #
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Ten Trillion and Counting…
This is a frontline episode that talks about the national debt and how the country’s deficit is exploding. It also talks about how both political parties are at fault, and how the US needs to come to terms on the problem to start working on fixing it.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22
- Just flew my RC planes again. Love this stuff! #
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Richard Cheese
This cat is funny! Thanks Rob for the recommendation.
John Mayer
In case you’ve been in a bubble and are in dire need of decent music, I highly recommend John Mayer. There’s a few songs from him below. If you happen to be a singer/songwriter, check out John’s web site blog @ http://www.johnmayer.com/battlestudies/. A recent post called “Conscious Composition” is very cool. Good Stuff. So what album is his best? Well I like Continuum, but probably just because it’s his latest studio album. I have seriously enjoyed every album to date. Frankly you can’t go wrong with John. One album that never had big press that I enjoy is, “Inside Wants Out“. Check him out!
The song, “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room“, is in my humble opinion is a masterpiece:
“Belief” is another great tune from John…
Howie Day @ The Bluebird
Stuart was gracious in surprising me with a Howie Day ticket tonight. Man my bro can be a cool cat. At the venue Stuart ran around taking some great pics of Howie live. Highly recommended if you like phenomenal guitar and smart songwriter lyrics. Pics are @ www.skfunphoto.com. Below are a few video’s of Howie doing his thing. His talent is in the way he can play guitar, and in using loopback devices construct a vibrant full sound — live! During the BlueBird concert he took the song below, played it, and before he ended the whole thing decided to double up the speed and start a whole techno vibe with it. Truly makes a regular DJ look like a pud. Beyond his obvious playing talent his lyrics are great too. Try him out!
The Song, “Bunnys“, Live – Incredible!
Live version of, “She Says” – Awesome lyrics!
Axis of Awesome 4 Chords
All these songs have the same 4 chords!
Hack your VCR
Sun Cheatsheet
I published my Sun Cheatsheet document to the world recently. It’s a compilation of Sun commands and processes that I documented over the years. Enjoy! http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhjhzg6x_3c6d658
Bye MobileMe…
Buying a hosted domain: $100
Buying a pro membership on smugmug: $60
Installing WordPress: $0
Able to manage my familiy’s websites with freedom and without major pain: Priceless!
I recently started a journey on removing my dependancy on Apple’s MobileMe services. When .Mac ruled the land with web-based wonders, life was good. Then Apple decided to trash what worked with MobileMe, and everything went to hell. Load speeds, reliability, service limitations, email address changes, ical incompatibilities, groups disabled; all this appeared with the shiny new MobileMe. But I can sort of sync with my iPhone. Are you kidding? Did Apple really have to choose between having great user experience with .Mac and basic iPhone sync with MobileMe?
Overall MobileMe is no longer worth the money and time I invested in it.
So now I’m sporting a spiffy new web site using WordPress which is very easy to use and I have completely stopped using Apple’s iWeb as a result. I have a regular IMAP email server with my web isp provider for email, and even Google Sync Mobile services for my iPhone calendar and contacts.
I also use a paid picture site called smugmug for all of our photos. Why a paid site? I have complete control of the site and the themes, no Adware, backups, Share with family sections, and I was even able to point my own domain to the smugmug directly – http://pics.gridleak.com. They also handle raw picture formats which is a real plus. I learned the hard way that many of the “free” sites will tamper with your image resolutions when you upload them to save server disk space. If you’re interested in trying smugmug you can test it out with a free 14-day trail, and you can use the coupon code OHpYezYHRef9s for a discounted join rate. My Bro Stuart was the one that turned me on to the site. Yes… Stuart. The kid that didn’t have a computer until last year and started life right with a Macbook Pro. Werd!
So I’m now ready to cut the cord on MobileMe. It’s sad really; Apple broke something that really worked. Even today it’s getting better again, but I’m tired of waiting. I’m also done with being at the mercy of a support FAQ web page when I have real problems. While Apple’s computer support is the best in the business, you can’t get a live person to talk to you about MobileMe issues.
If you’re interested in making the plunge, or you want MobileMe like functionality, below is a list of technologies that take care of what MobileMe does for a Apple system:
| MobileMe | Replacement |
| Website | ISP like FatCow or BlueHost |
| ISP like FatCow or Google Mail | |
| iWeb | WordPress |
| Mobile Sync Services | Spanning Sync, GooSync and Google Sync Mobile |
| iDisk | ISP or something like Amazon S3 or Nirvanix |
| Back to My Mac | Screen Sharing or LogMeIn.com |
| Pages and Numbers sharing | Google Apps |
My hope is that Apple learns from this experience and doesn’t become another company too big to care about it’s core users; like what happened with “the other” company we all know and love.
Let us now pray…
Screen Cleaner
I know you don’t clean your screen very often and it is hard to do the inside, so go here:
RC Flying fun with the Padilla’s
Today was a great day: planes, friends, and no trashed planes at the end – Perfect! Below are a few photo’s from the day’s events. The smurf lookin’ guy is me, and Grace and AJ are in the mix as well. We went to the Miniature Aero Sportsters field to fly and the hospitality was wonderful. A number of “Pros” were there doing thier thing and they were eager to see a new potential member. I got the memeber information and just sent the check in. I was very pleased with the attitude of everyone there, and I even got some great advise on my Stryker F27C delta. Good stuff.
AJ flew the Alpha Trainer for the first time using a “buddy box”, which is a transmitter tandemed to another transmitter I was controlling. I use a “Train” switch on my transmitter to selectively give control of the plane so AJ didn’t have to sweat much about it. I was very impressed and he got the whole “Your plane – My plane” concept and really hung in there. It generally takes about 15 flights on a buddy box to get used to flying, and another 15 flights to be good enough to do solo take offs and landings. Simulator time can help greatly with getting the concepts down. FS1 and Real Flight are the most popular sims out there. There’s even a ready to fly starter plane kit, complete with everything including the flight sim stuff at most hobbie stores now. The Hobbico Nextstar RTF is one of them.
Grace had my camera and got a number of great shots, including a few of me flying the helicopter. Thanks Grace!
Flying RC’s today
Today I think I’ll be flying some of my Remote Contol Planes and Heli’s. It’s been a long time so today may end in tragedy! I think I’ll fly out at the Miniature Aero Sportsters site north of DIA. It’s a bit of a drive but the area is beautiful and it’s rare to be able to see real jumbo’s flying while you’re flying RC’s. A great site. Details Here: http://home.comcast.net/~tglaess/Field.html