If you can see this post, you’ve made it to the new server!

Let me know what you think of my new site design in the comments. I’m straying a little from the wordpress pack by ditching the sidebar, but I think the menu system is much cleaner and allows more focus on the posts. Please let me know if you find it difficult to get around, if something doesn’t work properly, or if you miss a feature that I threw out.

New content is coming soon!

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. My job has been very crazy, but rest assured: I have been working on a complete site redesign and am in the process of switching web hosts. So as soon as I complete things I’ll flip the switch on the DNS and move everybody over.

I have so much built-up content for this site it’s driving me crazy. I just need to get the site in order and I should be able to finally get some posts up about my PPC6700 (which is awesome), a 6-month follow up on my X41 Tablet, some new features for my SageTV STV and a bunch of podcasts.

So stay tuned! Lots of good things are on the way.

I’m really behind on my RSS reading lately, so this isn’t as timely as I would have liked it – but I’ve recently won an Ink Blot Award for the Best I Felt The Earth Move Experience When Finally Ordering A Tablet PC!

This is surely as a result of the strange coincidence I experienced when I was ording my Tablet, and there was an earthquake while I was on the phone with the sales person. You can read my account of it here.

I want to thank Warner for this wonderful honor. It is truly touching to be recognized by such a prolific TabletPC auteur.

I have been completely inundated with comment spam over the last few weeks, which I suppose is a good thing because it means I’m getting enough exposure to become a target. It’s a bad thing because it means WordPress has sent me roughly 200 emails telling me I might have been spammed.

So I’ve had enough. In an effort to keep things as invisible as possible, I’ve installed Bad Behavior and Spam Karma 2. Please, please, PLEASE tell me if you have ANY issues posting to my blog as a result of these measures. Hopefully most of you won’t even notice them, but I wanted to let everyone know, just in case.

I’m not a fan of captchas, but some of you might get presented with one if you trigger the filters. I would really appriciate feedback on how many people are having to fill those in. If you get one, please let me know in your comment, or email me.

Thanks so much for understanding, and for helping me implement these new plugins. I hope they don’t get in the way of good conversation.

I’m back baby!

If anyone’s looking for heaven on earth, I’ve found it. It’s called Bora Bora and it’s in the South Pacific.

I’m easing back into things slowly, and I’ve written up a ‘First Impressions’ post on my X41 Tablet, so that will be up tomorrow hopefully.

Well it’s about frickin’ time! Lenovo has finally gotten around to shipping my tablet – nearly 2 months after I ordered it and 3 weeks later than the ‘latest’ ship date I was originally given.

Here’s the fun part – I’m not going to be here to recieve it. HA!

I’m getting married this Saturday, and we are immediately jetting off to Tahiti for two weeks. So needless to say I won’t be posting for a little while.

I’m not going to miss my tablet – but it better miss me. Serves it right for taking so long to get here.

I apologize. My site has been experiencing some issues with it’s database server. I’m currently talking with my web host to get these problems ironed out, as it seems that my database server is the same as their own database server, so I’m inclined to think they want to fix it soon. In the mean-time, I’m taking a look into some wordpress caching plugins to take the load off the server and to keep the site working without the database connection. The downside of this is that I won’t be able to keep track of how my site is performing with my stats program. Any wordpress gurus out there have suggestions?

With that out of the way, I thought I’d post an update about my X41 Tablet PC order – it’s back-ordered, and currently showing a July 19th ship date. This is getting dangerously close to my wedding date of August 6th, so unless I get it about a week before I leave for Tahiti, odds are I won’t be able to play with it until the end of August – which would be torture.

I’m also working on some posts about Orb.com and using it to stream your TV recordings to anywhere in the world, using Meedio and DVD Profiler to setup a cool database for your DVD collection, and compressing your recordings for consumption on your Palm OS device using MMPlayer. The first of these should be finished in a couple of days, so keep an eye out.

I figured I should write something other than that ‘Hello World’ post that was generated. Well, this is my blog…wierd. Almost too easy to setup – Wordpress is cool. Hopefully this blog will serve as a way for me (and others, if I’m interesting enough) to spread information about how technology can work FOR you, not against you.

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