I have added a new sidebar widget to show my latest RSS feeds I have shared in my Google Reader. I think it’s pretty neat, but I like the idea of “auto-blogging” where those shared RSS feeds would become actual posts for people to comment on. For now, you get nice links to the right.
If you’re wondering, here’s a link to the WordPress plugin [Google Reader Widget].
My new goal on Rock Band is to complete the solo tour (on drums) with 5 stars on every song (50 songs). Currently I am at 200/250 stars with 10 remaining songs (five tier 8 songs, and five tier 9 songs remain). That means I am on pace, but I know “Next To You”, “Run To The Hills”, and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” will trip me up for awhile.
We closed escrow today so say hello to two first time home owners! We won’t be moving in until the first week in September, but I’ll try to get some pictures up.
[Article] I think my favorite part in that article, minus the growth of the city since the law, the low crime rate, and the fact that owning a gun is mandatory is the following quote, “People in Europe feel they need to be protected by the government. People in the U.S. feel they need to be protected from the government.” Can I get an “Amen!”?
[Article] There once was a couple who won an extreme makeover home, and then took out a home equity mortgage and blew it all, rendering their home in foreclosure. Way to go!
[Article] This guy hits the nail on the head in his rebuttal against an Obama supporter on Obama’s “Mandatory Volunteer” comments. Just think for a second at how absolutely absurd that notion is and then read his rebuttal. My only hope is there are more people who think like him and not the Obama lefty masses.
Thanks to Geeky Weekly for finding the article.
The guys and I hit legendary status on Rock Band today by completing the endless set on expert. In doing so, we also earned platinum status. I made my cool Rock Band page too. In the first half of the set I sang and played guitar. During the latter half of the set I played drums. Our hardest song was “Green Grass and High Tides” since both guitar parts are insane.
I finished the HBO miniseries John Adams, and highly recommend watching it, even if it’s nothing more than a refresher course on a bit of history for you; history that should not be forgotten and every citizen should know.
For those of you looking for a cost-effective solution to archive your valuable data offsite, there may be an easy solution for you. Over at Amazon they offer web services, one being the “Amazon Simple Storage Service” or “Amazon S3″ or “AS3″ for short. What this service provides customers with is an easy offsite storage medium. The best part is you only pay for the space you consume at a rate of $0.15 per GB per month for US citizens. The next positive is you have complete control of your stored files, but you’ll need a tool to interact with AS3 in order to take advantage of it.
Enter Jungle Disk (JD). JD is program for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which allows you to read, write, and delete files on your AS3 account.
“Jungle Disk has a great automatic backup system, and can easily be used for basic data backup, but Jungle Disk also gives you a complete network drive that you can use from multiple machines - like an unlimited size USB drive that you can connect to from anywhere. The exclusive caching features in Jungle Disk make it so that using your network drive is as fast as a local drive, and you don’t need to constantly transfer data from the server.
This also allows you to use your favorite 3rd party backup tool such as ChronoSync, SyncBack, or rsync to manage your data if you prefer - something no other online backup service offers.”
One more thing JD offers is the encryption of all your data so your data remains safe as it gets sent from your machine and stored on Amazon servers.
I actually signed up last night for this service and backed up all my digital images. In a tragic reformat, I once lost over a years worth of photos that I cannot get back. Now that accident should never happen again using AS3 and JD. Currently I am using the free trial of JD. I fully intend to pay the $20 one time fee when my trial expires.
Here are some useful links that explain in greater detail how it all works: