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From the Boyer-Turner Wedding
Jul 18th
Just wanted to continue my new tradition of blogging from wedding receptions.
We’re here at the Boyer-Turner wedding near IthacA at the Benn Conger Inn. This place is amazing, and as an added plus it has free WiFi!
Congratulations KT and Chase. We love you both and can’t wait to be down-the-street neighbors!
Global Hosted Operating System
Jul 14th
Today I read an article on News.com about the Global Hosted Operating System (or Ghost).
I think I’ve seen Ghost in the past. It’s a web-based operating system that comes with 15GB of storage so you can access your files from any computer connected to the web. It uses the Amazon S3 service to ensure data integrity.
They even have a super slick interface for the iPod touch!
Check it out at G.ho.st. If you sign up, let them know that jediwebgeek referred you!
From the Main Twist
Jul 13th
Just posting from the Main Twist in Mansfield.
Someone has free WiFi. I’m assuming it is from Night and Day. Whoever you are…thanks!
Our Fifth Anniversary
Jun 27th
Thi weekend we celebrated our Fifth anniversary. Time really has flown by.
We’ve been through what I would consider a lot in the past five years. I won’t go into it all, but it’s been pretty wild.
This past year has been especially tough, with the miscarriage and everything that has come along with that experience. But I know that we’ll make it through with God’s help, even though He seems distant at the moment.
We are coming up on some interesting and exciting life changes over the next couple months, even though some of those changes will be tough. It will be interesting to see how everything plays out.
We celebrated by going out to dinner at Lambs Creek with my parents, grandparents and my aunt and uncle from South Carolina on Friday night. Tonight we went up to the mall to do some shopping. Danielle picked up some more of the Lego DS games, and I got the Tiger Woods 10 for the Wii with the Wii Motion Plus accessory. Can’t wait to try it out tonight! We will be extending the celebration into tomorrow when we go to see the new Transformers movie.
I am a blessed man who found the love of his life pretty easily.
I love you, Danielle.
WordPress 2.8 from iPhone 3.0
Jun 21st
Testing WordPress 2.8 from the iPod Touch.
Not quite as easy as from my PowerBook, but it does work.
Happy Father’s Day
Jun 21st
Today was a tough day for me. It seems that anything that brings little Enoch to mind makes for a tough day, although I know it will get easier with time.
Church is definitely the hardest place to be. Not sure why, but all the floods of emotions seem to happen there. We are blessed with a great churh family, and our friends Tim and Patsy gave me one if the Father’s Day gifts after the service.
My dad is the best dad in the whole world, as cliche as that sounds. I know that this time we are going through is difficult for him as well, but he has been so supportive and loving. He is the perfect example of what a dad should be. He has always been and will always be my hero.
Google Maps on iPhone 3.0
Jun 19th
I recently updated my iPod to the 3.0 OS. Now Google Maps has Street View support.
If you search for an address where Street View is available a box with an orange dot shows up. Clicking this dot takes you into Street View. It runs really well, and the touch controls work flawlessly.
A photo if downtown Wellsboro is included. Notice the little icon in the bottom denoting your current field if view – nice touch.
Safari 4 Test
Jun 14th
Danielle always has problems posting to her blog from Safari, so I’m trying it out in Safari 4 with WordPress 2.8.
Seems to be working fine here.
Mission Possible: 1, 5, 7, 9
Jun 13th
Just thought I’d give an update on my 2009 Goals post.
I finished the Obama Nation probably in either late January or early February. Scary stuff. A big part of means wants to say, “I told you so,” when it comes to Obama. It seems to the he wants us all to be completely dependent on the federal government, and that is a scary place to be, but I digress.
I would say that we are most of the way to goal #5 – successfully training Schrute. He’s learned sit, stay, lay down, up, and he can also give high fives. He still has his moments, but we keep reminding ourselves that he’s only a little over 6 months old. Although he looks like an adult dog, he’s far from it.
I beat COD: World at War probably two weeks ago now. It was a really fun game, until the last couple of levels. I got stuck on the last level more times than I can even remember, but it was still a great game.
I’ve been learning a lot more .NET at work recently. I helped out with the redesign of DeliveryMaps.com and MarketMaps.com over the last couple of months. Both sites use the .NET 3.5 framework. My friends Terry and Milton from work have been very patient in explaining the ins and outs of LINQ, handlers, master pages, and the like.
For those of you keeping score at home, that’s 5 goals down, 5 to go.
The Twitpocalypse is Upon Us!
Jun 13th
Apparently, the Twitpocalypse is upon us all!
Basically, every Twitter message sent has a unique id. Once the id passes 2,147,483,647, there could be problems for some Twitter client apps. The id has already passed this value, and Twitter.com is still functioning properly.
However, at least one of my favorite apps for the iPod Touch (that is the correct name, by the way – there is NO SUCH THING as an “iTouch”), Twitteriffic appears to have been bitten by this issue. I hope they get it fixed soon, because it’s a pretty sweet little app.