Thoughts and Ramblings

General things I find of interest.

.Mac is not worth it

OK, I was listening to the MacCast and heard a review of iWeb which is part of iLife ‘06. This reminded me that I need to go on .mac rant, as I promised before:

Introduction I have had my .mac account for quite some time now. I had it back when it was free (and called iTools), and continued to use it when it was no longer free. I was content to pay for it at the time since I was reluctant to lose my mac.com email address.


All Men's

Last night was the “All Men’s” breakaway. It was a breakaway for just the guys. They do this every once in a while, mostly when they can’t reserve Reed Arena for that week. Since Rudder is too small to hold all of breakaway, usually they split it up like this instead of resorting to holding two breakaway’s in Rudder. The girls get their chance in two weeks.

Next week, the guys and girls are together. The speaker seemed to make a big deal about the fact that it was Valentine’s Day, so I am dreading what he may have to say. I guess I will just have to see.


More Moving

Well, Still moving things to this site… I just moved over the Poetry section. If you look really closely, you will see that the font has changed for my posts ;). I went through and cleaned up the horrible HTML code that was generated by my last software and survived the import here. It should be all cleaned up by now.

Well, today I went to the Superbowl party hosted by BCS GAP(Bryan-College Station Graduates and Professionals) and Aggie Christian Grads. It was fun, and some of the Superbowl ads were funny. I didn’t watch the game too closely, but I did get a chance to socialize with others. I had fun.


New Blog Site

Well, if you are reading this, then you know that I now have a new site to store my blogs. This is the reason why I have not posted much in a while; I have been moving things over to this site.

Some things to note: The address above is www.cod3r.com. I have actually owned this domain for more than a year now, but just didn’t do anything with it. I finally decided that if I wanted to really use it, I needed it to be hosted somewhere. I decided to buy what is known as a virtual private server. Basically, I am sharing resources on a real computer out in the world somewhere, but I have full privileges to my little piece of the server. I get 5G of disk storage and 500G of data transfer per month. One other advantage of running this server is I can do whatever I want with it. Basically pretend it is a slow server (by today’s standards, but still faster than my 5 year old linux box under my desk), with only 5G of HD space. For the curious, it is running Debian/Linux - Stable.


Not the only one with car issues

Well, Tuesday was the day for the Engineering Career fair. One of my friends came into town for it because he was recruiting for Raytheon. He came down monday and we went out to dinner. It was nice to see him again.

On the way down, shortly after going over some rough train tracks, his corvette started having some issues where it was loosing power. It was a small hiccup, and it didn’t do it again afterwards. Then, when he was trying to leave on his way to Dallas on Wednesday, it did it again, but this time it didn’t go away. He had to be towed back to college station where they looked at it. As a result, he spent the night at my apartment since he didn’t have his hotel room anymore. Microsoft had a Halo (computer game) tournament Wednesday night. We went to that because it was free food. On the whole it was fun to go to. In addition, I got to meet up with Noah who was a Microsoft recruiter. I had not seen him since last August.