Or how I came to love Live Mesh This weekend I started playing with a new technology from Microsoft that's been dubbed "Live Mesh." This is a platform that enables syncing sets of data across multiple devices, while also making that data available in "the cloud" (there's that term of the moment that I'll be using a lot). Here the scenario that I'm playing with right now: I have four computers that include a personal laptop, a work laptop, a Media Center and a little netbook (that's a really small laptop). I have a fair amount of ripped and Amazon/Zune DRM-free music that I'd like to play on all of these systems...about 10GB worth. With the Media Center as my primary repository for music, it became a very manual process to make sure I always copied any music I bought on one system to the other. There are a number of tools to do this, but I didn't want to pay for something that I could do by hand (or even scheduled, i.e., SyncToy). There's also that sticky ...
Well, I've added a new motorcycle to the stable. A vivid black 2008 Ultra Classic Electra Glide. The first test comes this weekend when I head down to the Crossroads of America motorcycle rally in Hutchinson, KS.
As many of you know, KU finally secured it's third National Title on Monday night. In addition to an incredible game, we had a crazy time downtown. I was a freshman at KU in 1988, so 20 year later I get to share the fun with my son. Kinda weird, kinda cool. Yea, that's my big head at the bottom, just wanted to prove that it was actually me in the thick of it.
I returned Sunday from NO after 3 days of fun, food and drink. A couple of pretty interesting sights, as you can imagine. My two favorite were a little tame, but I get a laugh out of signs like these... What's up with Mr. Chubby? Is he really an orange, gelatinous blob distantly related to Jabba the Hut?
So it's been an long time since I've updated and I owed a shout out to Matt A. Matt, this update's for you. Keep the RSS tubes warmed up. When we bought our house, we were fortunate to have a builder that hired someone to run the right cable. CAT5 for telco/data, RG6 for video, etc., all home run back to the mechanical room in the basement. There were a few bad decisions here and there, but mostly it was done right. I insisted on doing the finish work myself, and about 3 years ago, this is what I installed... A basic wall mount rack, a punch panel for the CAT5 wiring and some F-Connectors to patch video. Of course, most of the video lines went direct to the DirecTV switch, so there wasn't really any "patching" going on. Fast forward to this December, the addition of a new server and the need to patch in some new data jacks quickly, and I decided to revamp the rack. This is what I ended up with... I can highly recommend Parts Express ...
