Friday, January 01, 2010
Not long now
I'm really dying to get some runs in this winter. Alas I have to wait another month before I'll get the chance *sniff*. A little late for my first trip but, perhaps better since Summit County hasn't seen that much snow yet. We are doing it up right this time...none of the usual floor crashing. Renting a house in Keystone so we can rest in luxury in between sessions. Its gonna be pimp!
Making the treck up to Keystone
Making the treck up to Keystone
Monday, December 28, 2009
Earn Some Free Snow Gear
If you are a fan of snowboarding or skiing there is a pretty tight way to earn free gear. Rossignol makes all kinds of mountain gear and has a search engine that earns you points redeemable for decent stuff. It returns results from Google and Ask so you can earn while doing your normal browsing. They have some algorithm for preventing users from padding their stats with random searches and clicks but, there is potential to earn faster via referral.
Labels: earn, snowboarding
Friday, December 11, 2009
Grid Computing Projects
While doing some research for my Computer Architecture class I came across this article 12 cool ways to donate your PC's spare processing power. Some pretty interesting projects here especially Enigma@home and the IBM World Community Grid.
Labels: tech
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Avoiding Online Scams
Check out The Complete Guide to Avoiding Online Scams @ lifehacker, a great article for the less "savvy" users in your life.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Snowboarding News
As I'm getting pumped up for the season been trying to see whats going on in snowboarding. I've found that topix has a pretty good page for discussions and the latest news. You can check it out here. God I can't wait to get in the mountains!
Labels: snowboarding
Monday, October 12, 2009
Windows 7...so far so good
Got a copy of Windows 7 Professional through the MSDN AA at my school. Turns out the image was bad....spent a day or so messing with that. After a couple of tries I was able to torrent one, use my student key, and get it up and running with little effort. I've been enjoying 7 quite a bit, some really great new features. My favorite so far is how Windows Media Player picked up my SimpleCenter installation and was able to instantly stream my movies without needing any additional codecs WOW! Aero looks great and operates smoothly and the new search seems like it will save some time. This OS has me so inspired I'm gonna give Security Essentials a try....lol I may live to regret that. Anyway 7 is worth a try, been good to me so far....thank you Microsoft for pulling it together.
Labels: tech
Friday, April 03, 2009
This was all we needed!
Here in Atlanta it feels like we've had about two weeks straight of rain. Last Saturday a neighbors' tree fell on our house. Perhaps you can see the remnants of our deck poking up from the rubble. There was a picnic table on it that was smashed to pieces. Luckily the tree was rotten so the damage to our roof was minimal. A crack is showing on my ceiling and it began to leak yesterday. I have a feeling the whole inside of our roof is now soaked. The tree is still there because it can't be removed in the rain....today looks like it might be our first dry one in some time. Jeez this is one of those times when I'm glad I rent.
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