Month: June 2009

Puerto Rican Day Parade?

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In the afternoon I figured I would take advantage of the good weather and head into Manhattan. I wanted to swing by the Apple Store and head into Central Park for a bit. Little did I know my plans were doomed to failure. When I got off the N train and started walking up the steps I saw a lady with a Puerto Rican flag. I immediately thought is today the Puerto Rican Day Parade? Then I saw like 10 other people with Puerto Rican flags by the time I made it to the last flight of stairs to the street. There was no doubt in my mind the parade was today. Now I wondered does my memory serve that the parade goes up 5th ave right by the park? When I got to the street my memory was proven correct. 5th Ave was completely blocked off.

My plans were toasted. I should have gotten back in the subway and gone home, but I didn’t. I walked around for a bit since it was a really nice day. Since it was getting late I ended up heading over to the Outback for some dinner before I headed home. I love that place and I don’t go too often. It was good. I walked back to the subway and headed home afterwards. Granted my plans didn’t pan out (well if you call them plans) but I had a good day anyway.

I went home, finished my laundry, and relaxed a bit. Now I am off to bed since I have a meeting first thing in the morning.

Puttering Around The House

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I got up early and couldn’t go back to sleep. Thankfully I felt better than I did yesterday. I cleaned up my apartment. I also decided I didn’t like my Desk Reorg and removed the extra Apple Display. I moved my Media Center iMac back to where it was last week and took my Dell monitor and plugged it into my bigger iMac. I am still using a dual display setup but I took apart my Laptop station setup. I just didn’t use it.

The Apple Display I have is starting to show its age so I don’t feel right selling it on eBay. As Kai likes to point out anything I sell generally is in top notch condition. I take pride in my reputation (and the added resale value good condition brings) so I won’t sell it. I think it is still good enough to give to my parents. They have a 19″ LCD I bought for my dad’s birthday a few years ago. Maybe they will like the upgrade.

More Blog Tweaking

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After a really bad night sleep I decided to lounge around on the computer this afternoon. I ended up looking through he WordPress Plugin directory and found a bunch of new plugins for my site. I found some cool analytics plugins. I also added some nifty plugins that does some magic and suggests related posts like the one someone is reading. I find it interesting to tweak the site to see what else I can do with it. Totally useless time spent but fun!

At night I ended up going to see The Hangover with Danny. The movie was very funny! We grabbed dinner afterward, but I refrained from drinking. I was happy to get home at a reasonable hour.

Web Updates

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I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.8 today. Thankfully the update was fully automated. I know I am technical but something like this blog I like to just work. Not a fan of tinkering with it. I also realized that my URL is not indexed with Google. I figured out the problem and fixed it. I am finally becoming more comfortable with using WordPress after almost 6 months. I am slowly deactivating my Typepad sites. Not 100% sure I am going to get rid of them completely but for now I am focusing on my WordPress setup that you happen to be reading now.

Desk Reorg

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At home tonight I decided to reorganize my desk, again. About two weeks ago I moved things around on my desk(s). I have two desks and a little desk/cart arranged in an L shape since I can’t get the middle piece of my desk system in the color lament of the desks I have. So I have a make shift L. It actually looks pretty good. I love my Anthro Desks! I have been tweaking the setup since I got the smaller desk I used to make the L. Two weeks ago I took away my setup for my work laptop since i thought it was cluttered and put my media center iMac there in stead. I ended up not really using the monitor I freed up from the laptop setup so it was just sitting there idle.

Yesterday I got the idea to try a 2nd monitor on my iMac setup again. I also had the need for that laptop setup (using the laptop only wasn’t cutting it) so I decided to reorganize everything. I moved the media center iMac back to the center part of the L, returned the Dell monitor to setup my laptop again, and then broke out my old Apple 23″ cinema display to use as my second monitor alongside my 24″ iMac. I am not going to really be able to sell the Cinema Display since it is 3 years old so I might as well try to use it.

I know it sounds like allot of monitors, and it kinda is. But I accumulated everything over time. I actually have extra stuff I need to get rid of or give away that didn’t even make it to this configuration. I will use the main display on my 24″ iMac for personal stuff, the 23″ display on that iMac now sports a full screen XP VM that I can do work on. My 20″ iMac will remain as my media center and used for video processing and controlling my Apple TV & xbox 360 media centers. The other setup will be for my work laptop so I can do other work stuff on it.

Once I clean up everything I will take another Panorama picture of everything. Right now check out the before Panorama photos I took a few months ago when I still had my Macbook setup.

Desk Panorama Take 2

Before

After, TBD…

Meet and Greet

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Today was another day in the office. This time I went to the mid-town office since I had a meeting with someone who was visiting from an out of town office. I hung out (sat) in the usual spot. Went to lunch with Ripu and Abby since I love the cafeteria in that office. Thankfully my 8:30 AM meeting was canceled so I didn’t have to rush to the office, even though I still got there early. It was a busy day with meetings and dealing with some outstanding issues. I got out of work a little late but thankfully a reasonable time.

Spring Cleaning with Ebay

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Yesterday I sold my Nokia E71. I know, I use an iPhone 3G. I also bought a E71 a few months ago to play around with. I was hoping to be able to switch between iPhone and E71. I know, I bought and returned a previous Nokia E71 for that same reason. I wanted to give the Nokia more than a day trial. The verdict was it is a great phone but even with its drawbacks I like the iPhone and even when I did use the E71 I would often switch back to the iPhone. So since I am currently on a sell my extra stuff kick I sold the Nokia on Craigslist.

So far in the past month I have let go of my Macbook, and the Nokia. I loved the Macbook, but the reality was I wasn’t using it so I opted for the much faster iMac desktop. I am even contemplating letting go of my HP netbook since I have my work laptop that is an ultra portable. I am also looking to offload my 160gig iPod. When I got the iPhone I thought I would slowly stop needing an iPod. That is exactly what happened. With my new 16gig USB key and 16gig SD card in my laptop I no longer need the 160gig iPod for any portable file storage. That means it is getting wiped and put up for sale.

I am also in the process of selling my old Airport Extreme base station, but that is only because I upgraded. That sale will recoup half the cost of the new one. Man ebay you are my enabler for buying new stuff!

What I am not selling is my old 23″ cinema display. It found a new home as my second monitor on my iMac. I need to rummage through my storage bins to see if there is anything else I want part with. Don’t you smell spring cleaning in the air.

Waking Up With a Throbbing Head

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It was a bit wet in the morning. I can’t believe how violent the rain was this morning. I woke up to the thunder and lightening and thought I was dreaming. This was about 4 AM and then I didn’t really sleep well after that. I went to bed with a head ache and woke up with one. That is the worst possible sign I can possible have. I was about to call in sick but had too much to do so I took some Aleve and chanced going into the office. I almost never take sick days so I could have if I needed to but I really didn’t want to. I just really didn’t want the head ache to deteriorate to a migraine. When I wake up in the morning with a head ache that is usually the outcome. Thankfully today that didn’t happen. I think it was luck and prompt medication (thought meds don’t always do it).

Today was an in the office day so I went to my home base office. Things were busy but generally nothing major stands out for the day. I picked up a filet for dinner and cooked it up on the George Forman and relaxed in the evening. By the time I got home I was feeling fine.

Its Monday Again

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For some reason today I got 3 packages. I know I order 3 things but never expected two of them to show today. My fancy (in my opinion) mugs arrived. I got glass ones with metal handles. I always liked that style. I also got some stuff from drugstore.com since I am lazy and like ordering from them. I also got my business cards in the mail. I ordered them in the middle of last week and was amazed at how fast they arrived. It took me months to realize that if I wanted cards all I had to do was goto an intranet site and request them.

Today was a work from home day, and I am glad. I got a head ache in the afternoon that is still plaguing me. Unfortunately I had conference calls most of the day except for the late afternoon. It was a relatively productive day. More tasks were checked off as completed by my team than I added to the list of to do’s. Whenever that happens it was a good day.

Lazy Sunday

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Today was a lazy Sunday. As with many Sunday’s I wake up with hopes to do something productive, but by the end of the day I haven’t been productive at all. I don’t really regret it, I just state that as fact. I did clean up my place a bit, and do the laundry but that is normal routine on lazy Sunday’s. Watched some TV, worked on the computer a bit, and then played around with the themes on this site. I settled on something less than what I wanted just because no free WordPress theme seemed to really say use me. Pondering buying a theme but I don’t keep one long enough to justify the expense. For now just playing around.