I searched the internet for a simple to do list. There was alot of online ones, which are great but I was looking for an application I could run locally, and would minimize to the system tray. I coded one up in C#, I can post the code if anyone is actually interested. Anyway its small simple app, enjoy.
What to do when your in the car for 7 plus hours? Take pictures!!! Here are some pictures from our unexciting trip from Bloomfield Nebraska to Marion Iowa
Me Driving
Nekota Sleeping
Snow in Nebraska
More Snow
More Snow again
Sign for Sioux City, 34 miles
Un-harvested Field
Snowy Trees
Me Cleaning the windows, and it freezing to the windshield
Iowa, Fields of Opportunities ( no wonder why field of dreams was filmed here)
Nekota Still Sleeping
4 hours later ( Kayla went to sleep)
Kayla being Smiley
Tanger Outlet Mall
Dear Interstate Driver: Your gas cap is unscrewed and your gas door is open.
Me smiling instead of driving
GPS – Almost there!
Cedar Rapids Exit, YES
Who needs a Maid Rite when you have taverns
Thank you for Iowa Rest Areas!!!
Another Sign for Cedar Rapids
Worst Interstate Intersection
Cedar Rapids 19 Miles
I ruined Kayla’s Picture!!!!
Mercedes gas Millage, helps to drive slower.
Sign for Kaylas Work
Aegon in the background
Cedar River Sign
Yeah I can upload images easier now 😀 Thanks for the fix @ http://www.presidiacreative.com/wordpress-flash-uploader-fix/
I decided to try and make a TV antenna from many different online resources I have read. The Antenna I made was a 4-Bay bow-tie antenna. You will see this called a coat hanger antenna also, because you can make the whisk out of coat hangers easily. I first read about this antenna from this website, but I am sure its been on the internet long before this. My goal was to get some vhf channels in ( channel 7,9 and 12) , and since this antenna is mostly UHF, I found some modified designs by mclapp that help produce a small gain in the VHF-HI range.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~mclapp/Antennas/4baystuff/4%20bay%209%201-2%20element%20layout.pdf
http://www.frontiernet.net/~mclapp/Antennas/4baystuff/4%20bay%209%20inch%20phase%20line.pdf
Unfortunately the antenna didn’t work as well as I was hoping it would. The antenna worked for 12,51 (2-1), and 20 in my area, even though there is channel 48 and 28 which it was missing. My guess is I did something wrong.
The antenna was fairly cheap to build from all store bought parts. It was under 9 dollars from my local Menards.
Wire ( I used 14 gauge galvanized steel)
#6 wood screws
#6 washers
Board from the scrap bin ( 15 cents !!! )
Balun – Converts it over to coaxial cable.
If anyone has any suggestions on why it doesnt work as well as my DB2, let me know 
I would like to note: I am not an antenna expert, just a beginner. Just going off what I have read online for information.
So I was unhappy about windows 7 and I didnt feel like messing around with it to get it to work properly with my older PC, so I seen on lifehacker an article called Make Windows XP look like Windows 7. I thought I would try it out, and so far I really like it, it gives xp a new look. In the end the main reason I like vista and 7 is due to the graphics user interface anyway, but due to lack of hardware, I am going to run xp.
My Desktop Screenshot
If your interested in check out the mod, Check out the original website at http://niwradsoft.blogspot.com/2009/09/seven-remix-xp-231.html which is in spanish.
Here is the google translate link
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fniwradsoft.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fseven-remix-xp-231.html&sl=es&tl=en
My wallpaper I found is from the game EVE Online which I dont play, but the art reminds me of Battlestar Gallatica and Stargate
Widescreen 1920×1080
Full Screen 1600×1200
Merry Christmas!!! Its been a long year, and its coming to an end. I am on my stretch of a long winter break off from work and school, and I am going to enjoy it. The weather has been crazy, its snowing where we wanted to go ( SD/NE) but only raining here. Today it finally started snowing. Santa showed up, and made the kids happy. I got some great gifts from the family ( SDSMT t-shirt, Hangover, Super Mario Brothers Wii, Jelly Belly Jellybean Dispenser, and a new wallet). Hangover is a awesome move, I suggest watching it. Super Mario Brothers Wii is a very fun and hard game. Its a perfect blend of old and new Mario redesigned. You can play with up to 4 people, so far I have only played 2 and found it to be challenging when playing with multiple people due to the lack of room to be running around, bumping into each other, jumping on each other, and competing for mushrooms. My goal today is to get back on the treadmill and see if I can run my 3 miles like I was, I am guess it will only be 1 or 2 haha. Luckily school doesn’t start until Jan 11th, so I have a few weeks of breaks to play games and relax. Other then that, nothing new here. Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
I added a plugin to import my twitter feeds once a week into a blog post. I thought this would be nice since I dont always write something but I post on twitter pretty regularly.
So today was a nice day out, so we went out and built some snowmen, I added a couple of photos and a video.
The Family
The Parents
The Kids and Dog
The Dog
Alright I got a new theme again, this time its true love haha. The name of this theme is Mystique it offers customizable options, backgrounds, theme layouts, webpage width controls ( my biggest pet peeve is fixed width pages that look bad), twitter controls, and more. So if you looking for something new, check it out.
Including screenshot incase I decide to change my theme in the future.
So Boxee and D-Link are coming out with a new piece of hardware called the Boxee Box. Overall it looks really neat, it has a nice design, includes the major outputs needed for a mediacenter ( assuming you have an open HDMI port), and looks to be small according to boxees blog post.
If boxee would like to send me one, I would be more then happy to review it 😉
I have included a few photos from the blog.
Hopefully its not to expensive and its a big hit, boxee has a great future!
