1. Find a cheap apartment walkable to Metro.
2. Further my education, IT certifications.
3. Take More Pictures around our great city! (Need to lean my 50D)
4. Drink more water!
5. Put a 3 day a week exercise plan together.
6. Check out ‘hole in the wall’ and ‘under the radar’ restaurants in our great city of DC.
Testing out the iPhone WordPress application for the second time in a while. It still needs some work but they have made some improvements with functionality. Testing photo posting too, we’ll see how it goes. Here’s a few shots from around my desk.
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Yes, I’m an Apple convert and oh boy do I have allot to catch you up on. A few years back I received a 5th gen iPod as a Christmas gift, which started it all. Once the iPod touch came out, I jumped on that in a heart beat as my 5th gen was giving me the fits. At that point I was still living in a Bill Gates M$ Windows world. With the advent of Vista heading down the pipe at the time I decided to give it a shot on my main system at the which was a under-powered ThinkPad R40 with a 2.2Ghz mobile P4 processor and 1GB RAM. That was short lived and I wanted a new laptop anyway. 
After being a PC guy practically all my life and the little experience I had with MacOS 8 and 9 during my senior year of High School as I took over sys admin duties for a small Mac lab for our YearBook club. As most would be, I was a bit nervous making that type of jump over to the Mac. As I looked at my computing habits and the applications I used at the time, I had the idea that it was going to be a very easy transition as most of my daily tasks were browser based or I was able to find free or cheap alternatives on MacOS 10 Leopard.
Don’t get me wrong here, Microsoft Windows has it’s place. I’m definitely a multi-platform computing person with systems here at home running different all kinds of different flavors of Windows and Linux. I thrive in this stuff, my couple hundred dollar annual subscription to Microsoft TechNet proves that point. At work we are an all Windows shop on the desktop side, which I what I support. Every OS has it’s place and differences, yes, Apple just suites my general home computing needs very well.
I opted for a high-end refurbished 17″ MacBook Pro, I couldn’t be happier with the switch. I do have VMware Fusion for the occasional Windows app I need to run but I find myself using that less and less. Come on GOOGLE, where’s Picasa for the Mac?!?!?!?
I must say, Apple has a wonderful online community behind them. I would say almost like a cult following if you want to look at it that way. Very nice people who are willing to help and grow the community to make it was it is. This really came to life when I recently got the latest 3G iPhone while I was waiting in line, I’ll make that a posting of it’s own. What an experience!
As of late as mentioned above I got the iPhone 3G which was to upgrade my 1st gen iPhone. I know, I’m a g33k, got to have the latest and greatest. Especially if it’s an Apple product, right? 
Don’t be surprised if I post something about the Apple TV, that’s all I’m going to say for now. Can you guess?
I experienced an outage this afternoon at approximately 5:41PM EST. After examining the logs, I could not find any indications of a software or hardware failure that was logged. At this point, it appears the system went down hard. In which it did, services started coming back up around 5:47PM and everything was a go around 5:50PM.
I shot an email off to to support detailing the situation, here’s what I received.
There was a car accident several blocks away from the datacenter that caused a power surge in the system, it ended up tripping quite a few breakers, the UPS on your power segment did not sync back right away and did a power bounce. I have talked to the techs and more then likely we will be doing some maintenance on that segment and may replace the unit.
Jay
At least I can say it wasn’t a total disaster, could have been a lot worse. Definitely struck me by surprise though.
I would like to start writing blog posts again on a more regular basis. There’s been quite a few topics in the past I wanted to write about, just never spent the time write anything up on the blog. There’s been allot going on in my little world this past year. Well, for now I’ll keep it short and sweat. Stay tuned!
I just upgraded my version of WordPress the other day to the latest stable release but the new AJAX dynamic editor seems to be a bit problematic. Those of you keeping up with my blog via RSS readers have probably seen some of my posts show multiple times. Twice I’ve had posts mess up the layout of the site because of wrong code with the editor. I think its the Google toolbar spellchecker I use.
Wow, my third posting in one day, can you believe it? Yeah, I know its been a while! I’ll try to be more frequent but no promises of course. I really haven’t had much else to post recently except links to news and my little bit of commentary. Other then that nothing big happening with me, same ole’ stuff ya know…
Oh, I did get XM Satellite Radio a few weeks ago, I must say I love it! Gotta have my NASCAR channel and “Ask!” for Coast to Coast with Art Bell and George Noory! Yeah, now you think I’m absolutely crazy right? lol I will say this, I find the stuff they talk about on Coast to Coast interesting, its not to say I believe in it all. Anyways, I decided to get the portable Delphi MyFi XM2Go receiver. I got it for $99 with a coupon code I got from www.xmradio.com from doing their FREE 3-Day online trial. Really good deal if you ask me, beats the price I seen for it everywhere else. I’ve surely been getting my $12 out of the service, from NASCAR news/talk and Coast to Coast in the early morning hours before I got to work to NASCAR news/talk and music at work. After I get home its music for a bit, then Bruce Williams show at 7:00. If I’m still awake after that I tune to “XM Chill”. That about covers the day, wouldn’t you say? Living in the city having a portable XM Radio is really nice, I can walk around with my MyFi unit in my pocket listening to clear satellite radio, very nice!
Gezz, this post is getting longer then I though it would, I better bring this to a close. Expect something else from me within a week, while I’ve been typing this some ideas have popped into my head.
