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Yummy. Nothing like going to a fast food joint to get a burger, a pack of smokes, and some T&A. Come on, really? How long do you think a place like this can last in today's world. Although I must say that the food looks tasty... even if it does give you a heart attack.
I got the new Metallic CD yesterday. It's called Death Magnetic. Quick thoughts. I really like "The Day that Never Comes", and "Cyanide". The rest of the songs are great too, but those are my favorites. Over all, I like it. It is not the best ablum from Metallica, that still goes to the Black Album. It is, however, a large step forward from St. Anger. I am eager to hear more from the greatest band of all time.
I would give it a 6 out of 10.
Atlantis to make final shuttle visit to Hubble Telescope
0 comments Posted by Daniel Christopher Vining at 11:56 AM
In 1990, the shuttle Discovery launched the most well known telescope into space. The Hubble Space Telescope. Now, in 2008, the shuttle Atlantis will visit Hubble for the last time.
STS-125 mission will install upgrades and provide servicing that will ensure that Hubble will keep its orbit for at least the next five years. By that time, the shuttle fleet will have been retired from service. This mission is scheduled to last for 11 days. The launch is scheduled for October 10, 2008 and can be viewed on SpaceVidCast.
Rock-Tech.tv will provide reports on the launch and the mission as well.
Here I am, a proud member of the United States Air Force. I thought that I would be spending the upcoming winter in the comfort of my warm apartment in North Dakota. I guess I was wrong. It looks like I have been drafted to enlist in the Army. The TWiT Army.
The TWiT Army is yet another Twitter clone that is ran by Twit.tv featuring Leo Laporte. Like other micro-blogging status sites in its catagory, TWiT Army provides 140 characters per post to its users for free. The feature that stands out to me the most is its "Camo Twit" theme. The site features a camouflage theme called the TWiT Army Canteen. In addition to a stylish design, the TWiT Army brings together the followers of Leo Laporte.
Laporte is a Technology broadcaster and blogger. His career has seen him as one of the primary hosts of various shows on then TechTV, including Call for Help and The Screensavers. After the merger and re-branding of TechTV to G4 TV, Laporte left the network and started netcasting This WEEK in TECH. Laporte currently owns and operates a netcast network... TWiT.tv, derived from the flagship podcast This WEEK in TECH. He also hosts an online stream called TWiT Live and broadcasts via Stickam.
Find out more about Leo Laporte and TWiT --> www.twit.tv
Find Comickey on The TWiT Army here --> army.twit.tv/comickey
After a couple weeks filled with a lot of aggravation, I have decided to go with the Blogger platform for the Rock-Tech.tv Blog and Homepage. The url: http://www.rock-tech.tv will point to the Blogger site and will contian all the base elements for the site. In addition to using Blogger, I will continue the rising sense of Google Theme-ology by placing subsidiary pages on a Google Sites account. Until Blogger decides to give its users the ability to add more pages to our blogs, this will have to full these needs.
If anyone is wondering why I have forgone the use of a standard HTML site, it is becuase for the time being, the WYSIWYG interface of Blogger will allow me to focus on getting content published. I do not know enough about CSS to use and edit a good Wordpress theme and a traditional HTML site requires to much formatting and maintenance. In the future I will dabble in CSS.
Pages like Videos, Photos, Social Feeds, and other Specials will be posted on a Google Sites account and linked to from within the blog. On top of that, you will be able to find Rock-Tech.tv on many other socail media sites, such as YouTube, Blip, Myspace, Facebook, ect.
After Rock-Tech.tv gets off the ground, I will begin efforts to free the site from the dependance of these sites. I would rather host my own sites, and use the third parties for additions to the bigger picture or as a back up. If you have any suggestions on how to make Rock-Tech.tv better, post a comment bellow or shoot me an email. mailto:dcvining@gmail.com
Chrome Update: I have noticed that the Flash plugin is not as stable as I would like right now. I am finding myself going back to Firefox to view videos. Is this just me, or have you noticed this as well? Comment Back. :/
With the meteoric rise of the Google empire, I find myself wondering if the company will introduce a full blown computer in the future. As the launch of Android equip smart phones draws closer, the prospects of the search giant's next big product start stewing in the minds of tech-heads worldwide. Can Google adapt the Android interface to a desktop setting?
I can see a Google PC looking something like this. From the login screen, user sign in with their Google ID, not only unlocking the computer, but also simultainiously signing into Google Web Apps. From that point, users are launched into a familar looking Google Desktop. Since Google owns YouTube, I say adapt Google Videos to be a Google Media Player instead. If they would create fresh programs to compete with the big boys like Adobe Suites, Audacity, Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware programs, they could create a system that would be all proprietarly Google.
What do you think? What are your ideas?
Matt Hartley wrote: http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2300301:BlogPost:15481 One thing I will never miss from my days in the PC repair business was having to explain to a client that their PC was no longer. The matter goes from bad to worse when there are concerns regarding the expense for people on a fixed income. It can be heart breaking when these individuals use their machines for such things as keeping in touch with family and no longer have that ability. I have donated my own time here as there comes a point where you refuse to leave a person in that position hanging - anything less than providing a solution, even at your cost, is the only moral choice in my opinion. But sometimes it becomes clear that a platform switch is indeed, in order. Yet trying to get people to switch to a platform that would have prevented the issue in the first place remains extremely challenging at best. Today, I found myself recommending a new Vista box due to specific software needs that would not have been addressed with OS X or Linux. And to be totally honest, while VMWare is helpful for a geek, it tends to lose most people rather quickly as it not a true native running solution. To most people, an application is an application. Trying to set them up with virtualization on the home front is still a ways off. How I yearn for the day we can get to software being about the user and not the platform. Web based, closed/open source, whatever - let's make it about the end user and less about which stupid platform we are being herded into for once. For the first time in a very long time, I am becoming disgusted with installed, localized applications and find myself hoping Web based apps can pickup where traditional software vendors have failed miserably. But alas, it is not as simple as providing packages for all three popular platforms. Often times providing options for Linux and Mac do not make the same economic sense as it does to provide software Windows. I get this, I genuinely do. And knowing this, beginning today, I am going to be putting extra emphasis on Web apps and will be working to ensure that cross platform solutions gain the recognition that they deserve. It may not be the ultimate solution, but in all honesty, it is proving to be our best hope as security issues and viability challenges continue to be ironed out. To this I respond by saying:
While the ever growing popularity of web apps continues to grow, I find it slightly irritating that so many applications are reliant on the internet. I understand and accept that web based programing is in the forefront of the information era's future, however, the need for and internet source is still paramount. WiFi hotspots need to grow from rising novelty to the standard. In fact, the term hotspot needs to be replaced with coldspot. I live in North Dakota where WiFi is most commonly found at a Starbucks in town. Other than that, the only signals you get around here are from other user's unsecure wireless networks. Security threats limit and ultimately prohibit the avalibility of the internet at work. Google Docs at work, not for me. Any streaming site, file transfer site, or just about any useful utility are banned from my works intranet and at times retard my capabilities to produce higher quality work. My point is that for various reasons, there is still a strong need for traditional applications that require you to install the program onto your computer. A more attainable goal for the near future is better cross platforming capabilities.
Wow! So I downloaded Google Chrome earlier today. Chrome is the new Google web browser. So far, I love it! It has blazing fast load times. I really like how clean it looks. I love how smoothly it operates and it seems pretty feature packed to still be in beta. I am going to give it a few days to sink in before I give it my seal of approval or not, but so far, so good!
Well it is definitely not done yet, but the foundation of Rock-Tech.tv has been laid. Today I got the front page done (at least for version 1.0). It features a nice graphical header, the mogulus feed and chat room, and the Justin.tv feed for the constant "control room" feed. I am trying out Super Webcam for the effects package on the control room feed. I had been using Webcam Max but I don't think my poor old laptop could handle it. Super Webcam, although limited, doesn't take as much cpu power to operate so I think that it will work just fine.
After the video/chat feeds I have a welcome message and a friend feed widget. Finally, a nice graphical footer finishes out the page with the subdued backgrounds and fillers.
For now, I have a few music videos running the Live Programing feed, but will be updating with fresh new content very soon.
To any viewers out there, thanks for stopping by and Rock On!
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