Today was both informative and hella fun. While we didn’t get to spend as much time in the sessions, we spent a good amount of time on the Expo floor in a quest to get some awesome schwag. We came away with a few pens, 3 or 4 shirts, caps, …
While note quite over yet, the first day at the MySQL Conference was extremely informative. Not only did I learn a ton of things about MySQL 5.1, such as table partitioning, more information_schema enhancements (processlist, and slow query log now in a DB!); I also learned quite a few interesting …
I had heard rumors of it, but just looked it up today. Bandera High School is going to state for One-Act Play! When I was there, we went to regionals my junior year and, as I recall, we had not gone to regionals in OAP for at least 12 years. …
(First, I should apologize for not updating this thing more. Some funny things have happened that should probably be written down. I’ve been working hard to finish the remix of Don’t Fear the Reaper, which means other interests have suffered some.) Today marks the first day of a fun little …
It’s alive! I had to buy a few more parts than I thought, but I finally got the first iteration of the MidiBox SID. What is it? It is a do-it-yourself project that takes the Sound Interface Device (SID) chip from the Commodore 64 and 128 computers and makes a …
So I was chillin’ on the iTunes Music Store today listening to some lesser known tracks by Gorillaz to see if I wanted to buy any. During this process, I noticed an odd "feature" in iTunes… If you play a sample of a song that you have not listened to …
Apparently I had to learn this lesson the hard way. Last weekend I was working on building my MidiBox SID and heard a knock on the door. Since our TV was only a few days old, quite a few friends were wanting to check it out. I thought Corey would …
So we sort of had a Best Buy field day today. We ordered a kick-ass TV (which I’ll talk about in another post once it is delivered), got some Wii accessories, and The Office: Season 1 (US). One of the Wii accessories was the Classic Controller. While I only have …
Lately I have not been a huge movie-goer, for whatever reasons. But last night (or rather early that morning) I watched 300 with a group from work. I had initially decided not to go earlier in the week since I had stuff to do the following day (and it was …