Tired...

Stayed up a bit past 12 last night to take the noisey fan out of the computer and boy am I paying for it today....so tired.... No school tonight..yheaaa....I wish somebody would call and wake me up....

THis is my new time waster
The Wookieepedia

the official Montgomery County, Pennsylvania site for information about recycling, composting, and household hazardous waste

A good site to keep in mind for us who have lots of ageing PC's and what not.
the official Montgomery County, Pennsylvania site for information about recycling, composting, and household hazardous waste
http://www.wsaemc.org/Recycling/

ECHO 3 TO ECHO 7 podcast

This sounds like a cool podcast to add to my list... for me at least.

ECHO 3 TO ECHO 7 podcast

http://web.mac.com/tonygonzalez/iWeb/Site2/Welcome.html

Two longtime Star Wars fans discuss all aspects of the STAR WARS saga and how it has affected the world at large and their lives in particular.
Hosted by Tony Gonzalez & Mark Bottitta.
Look for New episodes every Month.

bitmetv

try this sie for tv torrents

bitmetv

3 Letters for business communication

Letter of request: Requesting a meeting with someone from a houseing contractor

Dear John and John,

We recieved your letter inquiring about our services and ability to fit the needs of your company. We at Automation Concepts think that this would be a great partnership.

I have enclosed the information you have requested. In addition we would like to invite you to see what the latest technology can add to experiance of the perfectly built home.

Feel free to call on us when you are ready to meet and discuse our future oppertunities blah blah...that doesnt sound quite right...


Claim letter:

To whom it may concern,

Upon receiveing and inspecting our recent order of 10 50 inch Sanyo LCD TV's, it has com to our attention that 3 of the ten were not the correct model and were of a slightly smaller size.

Checking our packing information shows that a quantity of 10 of the model number 50LTV06 were to be recieved. inspecting the boxes shows that 3 were model number 36LTV06.

We refused shipment of the 3 36LTV06 and hope that the 3 50LTV06 TV's can be shipped oto us in a timely manner.


Adjustment letter:

On the board again...

Joe, who I have only briefly meet once: yeah, so I am going to this skatepark in Allentown, do you want to go. Me: Yes

Was there really any other answer to that question? I guess the exchange was actually a bit different more of him telling me how to get there as if I did not have a choice. I do have a choice... OK, I don't have a choice. What I have is a weakness for skateboarding. Given the opportunity I will choose skating over just about anything at all. Its really not a choice actually. Its more of a calling, or even a beckoning...

Anyway... So I went to PennSkates. It has two sections. The bigger section has the back and forth set up you might see in X-Games type environment. The problem here is that the bikers didn't respect the flow that the park could of had. They just sat on one of the main middle platforms so they could hit this huge jump area... There was a little bit of the back and forth that the skaters were on. It had two smaller ramps that you could ollie over and down and then hit the big wall ramp and come back to the starting. Then there was a big wooden pool, very intimidating for me... That's were the guy that invited me skated most... Anyway lets back up a bit.

When I first go there I had to buy a kingpin and in my crazy haste to put it together I put the baseplate on backwards... It felt like it took forever to get it together... So I tested the tightness by going over the small ramps a couple times and getting the truck back to what I liked. Then I heard some one calling my name and found that Joe had found me by looking for an older skater... shheshh

He was up at the pool. I avoided the flying bikes and got up to the pool deck. We said our Hi's and I took look at the pool and missed my kneepads alot. He said did you go back to the mini yet? I looked around. It's down in back he said. Thats were I will be. I went down this slopey slate thing and into the back room. It was a sad little area that looks like it had been rearanged to fit the mini ramp into. It looks nothing like the picture on there site. It may have been a fun spot with out the mini ramp but everything had been moved around and made an akward little spot in back of the mini were little kids could try to hit the grind bars but it was only like 20 feet worth. next to the mini they had a little back and forth set up with a small not-so-fun box in tthe middle.

The mini was nice. I could feel the couple kinks which through me a couple times at first. Also one side of the coping near the wall was sticking out more than other places and it killed me everytime I would go up to do a truck stall. Actually it would stop just about anybodys run once they hit it. I got right back in to the skating rythim though. HItting some nice smiths and jsut haveing a good time. The only other people skating the ramp were other in there late 20's and 30's.

It was a very good time Joe said he would let me know when they were going to go out and I was free to joing them anytime...

A Good Will Letter for my Fantasy Company...

Again , this is a goodwill letter from our fantasy company project.

1st draft


Dear John Doe,

It has come to our attention that a you were responsible for putting J&J Housing Contractors in touch with us. We would like to extended our thanks.

As you may know J&J Housing Contractors has many exciting cutting edge housing projects under way. By way of your recomendation we have been invited to setup and supply the technical automation of at least one of these projects. This is a great new avenue for our company to head in and can only help to grow our business.

To extend our thanks we would like to invite you to choose any add-on for your current system and we will supply it free of charge. You can contact my self or my partners at 800-666-7777.

Thank you again,

Chris Faulkner
Automation Concepts.
Co-Founder

Goodbye SunRocket, Hello Skype and Welcome back Verizon

www.sunrocket.com , www.skype.com , www.verizon.com , www.fandango.com

Well SunRocket turned out to be unrelieble for our needs. I will still use them if was just me. I would still recomend them, @ $20 a month its hard to beat. I made sure to cash in my 20 bonus points for $10 in fandago gift cards

I installed SKYPE on my iPAQ and bought $10 in Skype-out minutes. Since I used PayPal they gave me an extrea 3 minutes. So during lunch I drove to an open hotspot near by, I think it is the World Gym, and called Sarah. The fist call was really choppy and realy could not talk. I turned on the auto-gain and tried again. this tie it was very acceptalble and the quality will more than suite my needs for a quick call home from school or my secret hotspot near Genardis ;o)

We are going back to our old Verizon phone number. I never really let it go since we had to have the line to keep the DSL and we used it for a back up to Sunrocket. So it was like $12 just for the line plus Sunrockets $20. The freedom package from verizon is @$40 so it will be @$20 more. In removing all the extra phones and Sunrockets phone adapter I did get rid of 4 extra things plugged in. 2 phones, and answering machine and the Gizmo (sunrockets phone adapeter).

Google seems to be bringing things back around

Google Page Creator

Google is going to offer personal webpages...no Blogs just webpages... cool. Just when people were really getting away from having a site since Blogs are so easy to set up and update.

It seems with a site you can link to your blog and do some different things. I think that was always my problem with my websites is that I wanted to update it blog style but also have other stuff and as my free time slimed down so did my willinginess to wade into the HTML all the time.

The biggest HTML thing I have done latley is when i did all the Style sheets for this blog and made it the mess that it is.... actually I like it. Using the Google page buillder should be fun to try to.

memaid tutorial

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=2977

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-=Chris Faulkner=-
cfaulkner@gmail.com
ossus.blogspot.com
"Peace, it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise,
trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and
still be calm in your heart."

The Rhinoskin proves it's worth.

So I got out of the car the other day and heard a clackty, clack on the ground. I looked and there lay the iPAQ. It did of course have its Inpocket protective case on. I picked it up envisioning the screen being cacked. The screen was not cracked :) The SDcard had popped out a bit and the iPAQ was asking if I wanted to format the card. I just popped it back in and everything was fine. The aluminum case has some nasty gashes on the bottom right corner. The marks would have messed up the ipaq, maybe even split the case and/or cracked the screen. So if you have a PDA o some sor , I recommend an aluminum case. There are a couple different companies but I think they get the cases from the same place because they look the same.

Is that a blogger in your pocket?

....hehe.

tHIS IS FROMPOCKETBLOGER

boy I should sleep.

New Bluetooth driver for the iPAQ and other stuff

First, <a href="http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/handheldIPAQ/us/download/22475.html">bluetooth drivers 1.6.0.0700</a>

2nd, I have to go to court as a witness for a truck that I saw that knocked over a cement barrier. That's all that I reported. It turned out that the guy was a dui and I was the only person that saw him...

3rd, I discovered that if you stand at the urinal next to the first stall in the bathroom, the white wall tiles are very shiney. Shiney enough that if you by mistake glance to the right and somebody is sitting on the toilet , yep you gusses it, you see their butt. I have to remember not to use that stall...

Testing again

More test

Testing, posting from the ipaq via email

In order to minimize my time on the web at work I thought I would try writing the post from the ipaqs email client and then emailing it to my blog when I hit a wireless hotspot, be it at home or on the road.

Here we go. This first one is from home.

Lots a laundry

I did a ton of Laundry last night and all of it with HOT water. That would not mean much but to get hot water I have to run a hose from our kitchen sink out the backdoor and down to the basement. Put it in the washer go back up, turn on the water, go back down wait for hte water to fill up and then go back up and turn the water off and then go back down and turn the washer on... Did that at least 4 times.

While doing laundry I was also try get my iPaq to be able to see the main PC over the network. At first the ipaq showed 5 other computers. I could not get into them but I see them and there names. I finnally read that the Windows firewall may be blocking me out. I turned that off and turned on the Verizon modem/router firewall and I could see my computer, named Zonama_Sekot... look it up, but I could not get into the drives that I had shared. Once I can get into the shared drives I will be able to stream and move music, Movies, tv shows, podcasts to the iPaq.

I noticed the Sunrocket line has been really crakely since I messed with the firewall on the Verizon modem/router... Ill have to look into that. I did reboot it last night as well

I submittd our taxes last night and got a message from the bank that handles the fees coming out of the return that it should be back to them by the 10th

It sounds like Ruby has the pink eye now. It just me left... maybe I can put packing tape over my eyes or something...

I also wrote Kodak back today and let know that I had tried all of there tricks and some of mine but we still can not get the camera to transfer all the pictures via the usb cable.

Hmmm... what else. I think I may have to read Gryphons bedtime stories while not laying down... I start babbling about stuff. I find it amusing but G doesnt.

something to try

Open a terminal and telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl. Leave the connection open, its kind of amusing.

Lets see Monday... I got home and did some pages from a ryhymeing book with G and then afterwords I took Ruby out to Whole Foods for some much needed real foods. Ruby makes such an impression on people with her "Hi, you" as people walk by and then she bats her eyes...

I think we watched Family Guy and then some Project Runway. Family Guy was nutty. I dont know what they were going for... It was like Ultra-Violence they way Stewie not just beat up on but just wrecked Brian. Lots of blood, shooting of knee caps...reminds me of some of the stuff from Sin City. Espicially the part were brian had his head shoved in the toilet... weird almost creepy for family guy. I found my self sort of taken back more than laughing...I hope this was just maybe a mocking of all the violent movies... I guess they hit the cencership stuff up alot so this was just a stab at the " Violence in Movies..." part of the theme song. I guess everybody could find something in family guy that pushes certain buttons... I guess they found mine funny tv cartoons being ultra violent... didnt quite sit right, i think I guess the amount of blood that they used and the fact that stewie then shot both of Brians kneecaps... odd.

Lets see... We have 'My Name is Earl"#13 waiting along with season 1 of 'The Office" that I thought we could check it out.

I'll have to check to see when the Harry Potter and the Goblit of Fire is coming out on DVD... I want to see it and have been tempted get it from bit torrent.

I sorted out most of the media folders last night and got Sarahs documents redirected to her partition. Now I just need to burn some of the bigger movies and tv shows (which reminds me that I need to keep watch for a good deal on CD-Rs) to free up some space... I also have Blue Crush to transfer to a DVD so i need to install Nero. I also reinstalled Quicken and updated the checkbook.

Today is the first and TurboTax online said that the IRS would be accepting returns with school tax gredit as of today so i have to check on that tonight.

Gryphon and Sarah both have the PINK EYE. Hopefully the Rub's and I can avoid that.

I got a case of Moosehead beer. It has a really beery taste. Its also pretty strong or it may have been that I didnt eat all day and had it with dinner.

... creeeeeek, lets get this thing moving again.

Well no since in going backwards to far. I am just going to start with something and let it flow.

I am in my new job working the awsome hours of 6 to 3. Yep thats early! No more late weekday nights ...but I do get home by 4, which hopefully will help us find some balance at home.

I am really enjoying my iPAQ. Its pretty neat to be able to connect to the internet at home wirelessly let alone while out and about. There are still some business' that have free access like Paneras Bread and CompUSA. If the need be you can find a hotspot from someones unsecured home network. I have a program that scans for wireless acces points and tries to connect (hitchhiker). It was amazing to see how many wireless networks there were, everywhere.

It also plays music and to go with that the Bluetooth stereo headphones have freed me from the damn wires! Also once you compress them it plays movies and video blogs. You can play games on it and all the normal PDA stuff contacts, calander. It has a camera a image editor a photoshop like program and what ever else I can find to DL and try on it.

What else... I just did my taxes and it looks like another nice refund. Since we have no big plans other than paying local taxes and paying back the kids and Sarah for money we had to use from there accounts we are going to look at moving to a house or antoher apartment.

I recently wiped our home computer and started fresh again. I am in the process of reinstalling the needed software only and keeping in clean. I did the partitions a bit different this time a windows partition about 15 gig, Open about 55 , one for sarah and one for me @ 5 each and a small partition for temp files.

So far I have redirected my My Documents folder to my partition I still have to redirect sarahs and the temp files. I also have to reload all of the photos and music. The music will be on the other hardDrive along with most of the other movies and tv shows. I would love to get the linux box online have it be a media box, even if I have to put winME or 98se on it.

I was also able to pick up another 512mg of memory over the holidays bringing us up to 1gig of memory. Now with the clean insatll WinXP is pretty snappy. I think this year I will try to upgrade the CPU since the motherboard can handle some of the faster processors and 3gig of memory. Another big Sata drive and a 30 inch lcd... ok well the 30inch lcd is a bit ambitous but the others things should be doable in time.

I am finnally reading the Harry Potter book - the half blood prince, slowley but surly. And I have some star wars books waiting in the wings.

No skatboarding seems to be in my future for now. Maybe if I get motivated again I can hit the abandonded parking lot during lunch... Ill have to see. It would be cool if we could get a house and I could build a mini-ramp....

ok, good start lets see if this sticks...