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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Where in the world is Charlie Hamdiego?
Fun City, USA. That’s where.
I need a new laptop. Powerbook’s getting a bit creaky.
Also: Who installed the “Hello, Dolly” WordPress plug-in?
Like I need to ask.
A 20-Post Celebration
It’s been almost a month since Sector 930 was launched and we’re now up to 20 posts, an impressive accomplishment.
I just upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.6.1, and all went swimmingly. I’m hoping everyone *cough* CHARLIE *cough* takes advantage of the new Flickr photo gallery plugin, which allows a summary of photos from a Flickr album to show up RIGHT IN THE BLOG! Charlie has been posting his images of his road trip to his Flickr account, and it’d be great to have the site jazzed up a little bit more.
Home-Nas: A Revisit
Whenever I think about building a system, there comes a point where I doubt whether I need it or not, or if there are better things I could be doing with those funds. I hit that point last week as I was spec’ing it out in more detail on Newegg. First of all, there are other things I could do with the money than buy another computer. Like, save for retirement, or …buy food. I was able to quell such thought with the following rationalization: It will help me in my job. In building this system, I will undoubtedly learn something that will come in handy, maybe in a job interview! Also, this specific system would be used in making backups, which could potentially save money and frustration in the long term.