Update, new TV, Monitor Array,

Been a while since my last post, sorry to any readers. Things have been going well. Mostly marketing lately, trying to figure out the ins and outs of power launching all of my projects waiting in the weeds. My primary focus for the projects has been my Parent company for all individual projects. I’m trying to get some FREE advertising anywhere I can, but not how you think. I’m looking for any companies/websites that revolve around development that might be willing to have their ads placed on our sites for FREE until we’ve decided what the reality of our advertising campaigns will be.

In tech news, I missed my xbox 360. I missed using it so badly, that I purchased a new TV to use with it. Being who I am(a tech junkie) I had to get the best one I could find at Best Buy short of a Sony XBR8 or an LEDtv. What I finally decided on was a 40″ Samsung ToC 640 120Hz HDTV. It has a lightning fast response rate. Also, the 120Hz is fully customizable and down scalable to 60Hz if need be. It has some extremely deep blacks with a dynamic 80,000:1 contrast ratio. I’ve setup XBR8’s before with their Million:1 contrast ratios and honestly, I can’t seem to tell the difference between these tv’s. The TV is full HD 1080p, has a plethora of ports, it’s networkable with RSS feeds and weather built right into the controls, as well as media playback through the USB ports. If I had to voice any complaint, it would be with the audio, which is typical of any LCD for the most part. But the way the ToC 640 handles bass is just too poor to even appear like they made an effort.

Samsung ToC 640

My plan for the TV aside from missing my 360, which I rarely play anyways, is to hook it up to the PC. I will be purchasing 2 new PCI-E video cards to run in SLI and utilize all 4 heads to connect my 2 current Acer H213H’s as well as the Samsung ToC 640, and a third H213H that I will purchase when the time comes. Luckily all 4 displays are the same 1920×1080 full HD resolution, so windows that I move from display to display will fill the same amount of space, different resoltuions on shared desktop space for me is just plain unbearable. The plan for the desk will be the 3 H213H’s side by side on articulating, telescoping, rotating arms. This should give me the ability to turn them to portrait mode when required. I will have the Samsung ToC 640 above them and a telescoping, tilting arm. To the right of all of these, I plan to have a wall mounted multi-touch display to run OSX on with the small Logitech DiNovo mediaboard to control it in case I need to run any Mac speciffic apps, which unfortunately seems to be the case with my venture into RoR at the moment. My primary system is currently, and will always be multi OS but I’m doing this without a bootloader and just have removable SATA drives setup across the front containing OS drives for Vista x64 Ultimate, Windows 7 x64, and OpenSuSE11×64.

I have my laptops and other workstations here still, all setup for different purposes such as Audio, Video capture, SEM, etc… But I’m also planning on building a Server for file serving/storage, DNS, and AD services.

Ya, this is going to be fun!

Hahahaha

Motivated

I know I said I’d be updating this more. Then I got sick for about 3 weeks :/ Good news though. The flu I had made me lose enough weight to notice a difference, now I’m working out again and it feels great. I’m now 10lbs away from my goal weight, thanks flu! Also a friend gave me some tips and pointers for working with Joomla 1.5 and the JCE WYSIWYG. It has got me fully remotivated to go on and explore. I’ve already implemented his new tricks into some of my clients websites and I’m now desperately wanting to update the rest of my sites to J1.5 and JCE. I’m going to start with my business website because it’s free of complicated components and huge user lists. I will let everyone know how that goes. Other news… I got vMarried! Yes, I am now virtually married to some other person willing to waste their life in a virtual world. I guess as far as vSide goes, this could be considered winning, but obviously ultimate failure in real life. Whatever, we have fun.

I have a huge list of concerts lined up that I’m planning to attend. Some of which I’ve already got my tickets for. I’ll be taking photos at my friends concert tonight so he has some good shots to throw on their myspace. They are pretty awesome, you should check them out. Tonight I plan on taking my D40x, an outboard flash, and a tamron 18-150 i think it is? I don’t have it here right now.

I made more money last month than I’ve ever made, ever. So of course I had to blow some of it(also completely paid off a credit card, and half of another one :] ). I bought a PS3, I bought the keyboard for it, the blu-ray remote, like 7 blu-ray movies, GT5: Prologue, and Jeopardy. In addition to the PS3 stuff, I got hooked up with a new HDTV(thx Eric), another 500gb hdd, the Belkin N1 Vision Router, this bad ass mouse pad, a ton of this paper, some ink for my new printer(best purchase decision I’ve EVER made: $50), and the Bring Me the Horizon shirt I wanted. I bought even more unecessary things, but I only listed the vitals.

I’ve decided to go to more shows this year, and to not go to GDC. This is a based off of principle and principle alone. Definitely NOT the fact that it’s extremely overpriced. I mean, who would want to go to the Game Developers Conference anyways. All of the big names of the industry holding conferences and tutorials. And then the game awards ceremony, and all of the nifty things at the expo. bleh. Even if it is like right over in frisco. Even if Bay area transit takes me directly to the doorstep for only $6. Who would wanna go to GDC? :/

Anyways, I’ll make an effort to update this more often with things worth reading instead of dumb little life updates like this one, thats what twitter is for. http://twitter.com/johnux

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