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Sweeet!

My situation is quite a bit different since we last, ehhh, conversed. Most of my hacking has been biological - still at the helm of the Water and Wastewater department of the company I work for and everything there, although it gets challenging at times, is running well. Other than that, my personal life sideways'ed a bit - I am now divorced and working through the last few details and then will be able to move on. Looking forward to getting it through.

I have been enjoying playing guitar. Haven't made any more videos of late, but was in a band for awhile, and it was fun.

Glad to hear you are doing well, sir. Congrats to you, the Missus, and Fred.

Cool - still going through much in my personal life, but moving towards happy. About all I can say about it at this point.

Good to see you still kicking, Sal. Hope you and yours are still doing awesome.

Haven't been doing much geeking lately - but strumming the guitar good and hard.

 

Thinking about using DynDNS and the old laptop to host a site. Anyone up on servers and the like that can be fairly secure and run under VisTA?

A friend kept talking about NetFlix and their streams - and I tried it out on the netbook. Very good video, the quality surprised me. So... I started looking into ways of getting NetFlix to my 19 inch lcd in the mancave. There's Roku and then various ways of hooking your laptop/desktop to the tv ~ OR ~~ many Blueray players now have networking and the like built in, and ways to tap into various online video services.

SWEET!

I nailed a Sony Blueray player for ~ $150 and activated the services. From there, you load things into your Watch Instantly Queue, they show up in your Netflix deal on the Blueray player, and then you have MUCH stuff to watch. The Netflix does a free trial, but when that ends for me I will have a way to watch much commercial free stuff for only $8.99 a month. Liking it, so far.

Slashdot has a really great thread running about the increasing popularity of Hamming:

slashdot - Ham Radio still growing in the iStuff Age

Although my setup is just a SW radio, I like to listen. I must say that it makes it kinda hard to get excited about listening when you can usually get the feed off the internet. Kinda reminds me of the story of everyone crashing the computer at MIT for the challenge. The finally just implemented a "kill" command, made it mundane, and everyone stopped crashing the system.

Now that is cool!

I still have simple phones - although my latest has a qwerty keyboard and a 3 meg camera (does ok if the light is good). I wanted an iPhone bad this last go around, but we are on Verizon (at the moment).

I always hated upgrading - I was a doofus and when I had my YaBB I hard coded things - such as using text links instead of graphic buttons because I was still on dialup and I wanted the board to be fast. All my coding would pop and I'd have to do it again. I finally installed a stock board at one point and I think I zorched previous posts.

I always looked for a thread based system that would just maintain 500 or 1000 threads and then self-zorch the oldest from there. My forums are dead - I used robots.txt to keep search engines out so that I could keep the membership to word of mouth. Except when Jason Scott showed up (from textfiles.com) - a celebrity!

BTW - his video series on BBS's from back in the day, and it was really interesting.

Thanks for the link...

I made it smoke free for something like 8 or 9 years. Don't know why I bummed that first one, but it went from there. I was still buzzing on the first smoke of the day till this past week, and now it's same old same old.

I think all the fires are stomped for today, so enjoying a Heineken on the front porch and enjoying the breeze. Here's hoping everything stays mellow.