Before I get started on my rant, I want to say that the my main issues with the article are not with the conclusions(mostly) or the intentions of the author. Nor am I trying to disrespect her. I feel that this article is, unfortunately, very typical of the Baby Boom and X generations. What is not being realized is that that the Net Generation is causing major cultural changes and are actually wired to think differently. (If you want to read about this, I highly recommend Grown Up Digital(Amazon) by Don Tapscott.)
For starters, it was very apparent to me that the author had little clue about what she was talking about, in regard to Twitter and how the Net Generation relates to the world. It was well researched, but not to the point of true understanding. I recognized many snippets from multiple articles I’ve read over the last few years. Unfortunately, they were written by authors with the same alarmist misconceptions brought on by misunderstanding of how things are changing. Read More »
This has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen. A data center that looks like it came straight from a movie set! Most data centers are pretty functional, boring, and drab. They are cool in their own geeky way, but not much draw for the non-geek. This data-center is far from that. It’s built underground and yet has lots of plants. The actual server room has a hanging glass conference room above it! Even if you aren’t a geek, please watch the video below. Parts of it may be slow, but I think you will still be amazed that this place really exists and is not just a set. I would recommend watching in high-def if you have the bandwidth to do so.
I just wanted to mention that my twitter account is public again. Not quite sure why, but I kinda feel relieved. I’m not ready to go into the reasons why I made it private, quite yet, but I should be able to write about that soon. For those that don’t know what twitter is, I recommend watching the video below. By the way, twitter is completely free.
I finally decided to take the plunge and move my skeemer.net website from my GoDaddy hosting to HostMonster. What I thought was going to be the very hard and extremely time consuming part was changing galleries. I had my own gallery software installed before and realized that there was no reason for that and it made it hard to move between servers, due to a lot of huge files. I recently fell in love with Picasa, so I decided to just use Google’s massive servers to host my gallery. This turned out to be a lot easier than originally thought and changing the pictures in the posts only took about an hour. So, not too bad considering I thought it was going to take three or more hours. The only casualty so far has been the paintballing pictures. I didn’t feel like re-uploading several hundred pictures.
You’ll probably notice that the look of my site is pretty bland right now. I just got urge to change it, but I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it yet. This look is just a skeleton theme that gives me a starting point. Hopefully, I’ll get some inspiration soon and make it look amazing. (Yeah right!)
Since I had nothing else to do today, I decided to cruise on over to Avila Beach and take some pictures. I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to take pictures of, but figured I would figure out something. Once I got there, I quickly figured it out. Since my Honduras trip a year ago, I haven’t really carried my camera around in a town.
I just now realized that I haven’t posted pictures from my excursion in Copan Ruins, so I can’t refer back to then without explaining. I was bored and didn’t know where anyone was, so I went out with my camera to see what I could find. I quickly became fascinated with the signs on the various shops. Most were handmade and quite unique. It was night-time and I didn’t have a tripod, so I had to get creative with bracing my camera. I was using the corners of buildings, telephone poles, steps on the sidewalk and even at times lying in the street using the curb. I did manage to get some decent shots that I will have to post soon.
Today was not quite as crazy, thankfully. It was mid-afternoon, so plenty of light was available. For some reason, I love the variety found in small shop signs. Many are quite creative. Without any more yammering from me, just click the photo below to visit the gallery.
As some may have seen on Twitter, I was in a lot of concerts this last weekend. I’ve also been busy since. Here’s how it went.
The day after moving back to the Central Coast, my mom calls up begging me to fill-in for some people that left the handbell choir that my dad conducts and my mom rings with. I decide that it can’t be that bad and so I say “yes”. Well, I honestly had no clue what I was getting into. Four practices and I found myself 1 week and 1 day later playing the first of four concerts over the weekend. I did alright. I only fouled up one song and it was easily masked by all that’s going on. I’ll get back to what exactly this concert is in a second. As we are putting the bells away, I wonder aloud, “Why do we really need to put the bells away if we are just going to use them again tomorrow?” The answer, “Because we’re moving them tonight.” That’s when I find out that I’m playing for my church in the morning. Now I’m up to five concerts in that weekend. Needless to say, pretty tiring. Read More »
I just want to briefly mention that I’m now using Subscribe2 to make it possible to receive email updates from my blog. I’m doing this so those of you that like to keep track of what I’m doing and don’t use a feed reader, may do so. If you like to follow several blogs and don’t know what a feed reader is, I recommend this simple, yet fun, video from Common Craft, RSS in Plain English. My favorite reader is Google Reader.
I want to give a shout out to Matt for testing and then maintaining/developing Subscribe2. Thank you!
Well, it’s been a while, again, since I last posted anything about myself. Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be moving back to the Central Coast. Living arrangements are a bit cheaper and I’ll be closer to those that I intend to work with. I’m going to start focusing on my business around web development. I still have one more sound/video installation for a church to do and then I’m on my own for a while.
My passions are web programming and live audio. Since I’ve done some of the second for the last couple years, I think it’s time to concentrate on the first. I’ve got some ideas for hosting sites but I think I mostly want to fit into a roll where I’m helping clients with upgrading/adding to their website. I love to provide personal service where I’m working one-on-one with clients so that I can feel out what they need and help them understand how to use the solution. Read More »
I’m glad I have my camera working again; and a non-shattered lens for that matter. My new lens is a bit better than my old one. It’s not pro level, but it does feature image stabilization, so my low-light shots should be a little better. I randomly saw my camera and something to shoot, so here’s some random fun. Try and guess what the pic is. If you want to know, it’s the filename.
Well, I finally got my camera fixed (thank you wonderful fiancee!) and can now take pictures again. I am quite excited about this as I have been without a camera for more than six months. (I ran over it, reference one bad day.) I have wished that I had it on many occasions. Especially, I have been missing it since I got Yaddie. So here’s a bunch of photos when we went out today.
This is the box my camera lens came in today. Great fun for kittens. Why such a huge box Amazon?
