A technology and personal blog.
The story of the 12 foot christmas tree
Nov 28th
Today we setup our twelve foot christmas tree we bought on clearance last year. I wasnt sure why I agreed to it, but whatever, it looks good now that its all setup. It was really hard to get a good photo of the tree since it was so tall.
Halloween Pumpkin and Nekota
Nov 26th
A little past halloween, but here is my pumpkin from Halloween and Nekota ready to go trick or treating.
New Website Theme
Nov 19th
I decided to ditch the vista looking wordpress theme, and moved on. Its hard to find a theme that fits your website. I am not 100% set on the theme I have now, but it will have to do. I am looking for a 2 column theme with fluid width, I like my website to fill up my web browser, which is important when you have a wide screen monitor. The theme name I am using now is fluid-solution. What you think? I think I am going to update the contact form next.
Portable Apps
Nov 15th
Its been a while since I posted, and since then I found out a wonderful application. Its called Portable Apps. You install it to your usb flash drive and whatever computer you go to you have access to your favorite apps. Well maybe not all your favorite apps, but the ones available on the portable apps website, here is the link to apps available. I went ahead and installed firefox, vlc, 7-zip, pidgin,notepad++, and putty. Some of the applications are open source, while others are freeware if it makes a difference to you, of course they will all be virus/spyware free. So if its something you find useful, I suggest you download it and check it out. http://portableapps.com/
First 5k Race
Oct 3rd
Kayla and I ran our first 5k race on Oct 3rd of 2009. The Growl Prowl was a 5k through Marion, IA.
Here were the results.
2009_Growl_Prowl_final_results
Mediaportal
Sep 10th
I am an avid HTPC user. I have been using mediaportal for over 2 years. I thought I would share a little about it, and write a full review in the future. If you are looking for an excellent windows based front end software, your search may stop here. It offers TV playback, DVR functionality, video playback, audio playback, picture viewing, any many user supported plugins. So go to the website, check out the forums for plugins and skins, and show your love for mediaportal.
Friday
Sep 4th
Its friday!!! Other then that I dont have much hehe. I took today off and I thoroughly enjoyed it!. Went for a run, working my way up, so I can run a 5k in October, that reminds me I should sign up! Been busy with school, lectures take alot of time, I wish I had a netbook to watch them while I am donating plasma.
Other then that not much new! just going to enjoy my 4 day weekend. Be safe over labor day!
TheSixtyOne.com
Aug 24th
So I am going to go out and give a plug to this website. http://www.thesixtyone.com/ They play non-label/indie type of music. This is music that isnt on the radio ( for the most part). There is some great undiscovered music on here. I recommend going out and listening to some songs. If you sign up refer me username:tonyscha
checkout my profile for my featured songs http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/tonyscha/
Thanks!
End of Summer Update
Aug 24th
Been busy… aka lazy over the summer. So I thought I would give an end of summer update. School has started for Abigail, Kayla, and myself. Abigail started kindergarten. Kayla is going back for business, and I am going to ISU for my masters in Systems Engineering. Its been a crazy cold summer so far. not sure what is up with the weather, but its been better then 100 degree days. Other then that, I dont have much to say… Enjoy the rest of the summer.
New Motherboard for the HTPC
Aug 2nd
So my Home Theater PC (HTPC) died a while back. Did some testing and determined it was the motherboard. So I found one on ebay a refurbished oem Asus rock Dual-Sata2. This motherboard replaced my DFI lanparty ultra-d nforce 4 motherboard. I would recommend the Asus only if you dont have dual core with sata with xp. I had some problems with the sata drivers that caused my alot of trouble. My final solution was to move to Vista… scary I know that it fixed the problem. So now that I have my HTPC back up and running I can enjoy the DVR functionality.