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HD Media Center
Last week I bought the Vbox Catseye OTA-150 HDTV tuner card for my media center. For $65 it is one of the best bang for the buck upgrades I’ve made to the media center. It solves the problem of not being able to record 2 shows at once and it…
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nowlikephotographs
The most prominent thing I’m doing in music right now is a radio show called nowlikephotographs that is broadcast live on Radio K from 4-6pm central standard time every Sunday. You can listen in the Twin Cities at 770AM, 106.5 FM or 100.7FM. If you’re outside the city you can…
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Data Center Power Outage Snow Day
This morning I was happily churning along at work when one of our numerous power outages happened. We probably lose power twice a year, once it even caused a small fire. For a building with 10 labs and a couple hundred servers it’s a big deal when the power goes…
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NetBackup OpenStorage API
Yesterday we announced a new API for NetBackup which is the product I work on. It’s being called “OpenStorage” and was known internally as the STS plugin for a while. For friends and family reading this that don’t know anything about NetBackup, it’s basically a backup app for data centers…
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BMW iPod Dock
I came home Friday to find Fedex had delivered the iPod BMW integration kit I ordered from Dension earlier in the week. I jumped on the iPod bandwagon back in college and used it pretty heavily while walking to class or while studying. I took almost a year ripping all…
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Foosball at Work
We’re trying to be like all those other cool dot com startups at work and now have a Foosball table. The group I work in – Data Center Management is having a tournament next year where the winners from each office will be flown out to California to compete. When…
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Symantec Friends & Family Coupons
I received 3 coupons at work today for 50% off any Symantec product until the end of the year. It’s part of our promotion to get friends & family running our latest versions of software. If you are interested in getting one of these coupon codes let me know. Dave…
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Community Designed T-Shirts
I stumbled across threadless.com earlier in the week while reading a web design blog. They were talking about how well the site was designed for community participation. I started looking through it and it’s kind of genius. They have a community of people that submit designs for T-shirts. Theses designs…
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Taking the RSS Plunge
I might be a little slow to fully embrace the RSS revolution but that has changed drastically in the last 2 weeks. I had previously used RSS for creating the Now Like Photographs podcast, the Blogulution Reader, and in the Yahoo Widget News feed that sits on my work laptop…
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New BMW Z3
Rex bought a new car for Bri this past weekend. He got it through this dealer auction in Milwaukee after we spent most of the summer looking for the right one. It’s a 2000 BMW Z3 2.5L, the same one that James Bond drives in Goldeneye 😎. She had looked…
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Getting back to Video Games
It’s been awhile since I went out and bought a new video game so last week I went over to GameStop after work and picked up used copies of Metal Gear Solid 3 and Quake 4 (for the PC). I played Metal Gear for a few nights and couldn’t get…
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Facebook News Feed
I’ve seen a couple of stories about the new news feed Facebook rolled out this week and how creeped out some people are with it. I don’t think it’s that creepy. I was weirded out by posting to MySpace and to a lesser extent Facebook when I first started using…
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Nip/Tuck Season 3
I haven’t watched all of Season 3 yet, we’re on disc 3, but I’m excited to have a whole new season to watch. This means I will be watching nothing but non-stop Nip/Tuck for the foreseeable future. The promo for season 4 has this really catchy Goldfrapp song called “Strict…
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I’m Back, and with Video
As I was taking a hiatus from blogging I bought a copy of Adobe Premiere Elements and finished putting together the various video footage Dave shot the summer before we all left for college. Adobe Premiere was a great app and it ran fine on my older laptop. I’d highly…
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DirecTV
Last week I had Skypix, the satellite company that services my condo for DirecTV, out to install an HD box and finally get some substantial HD content to make the TV look pretty. The decision was between Time Warner or DirecTV but since the condo subsidizes part of the DirecTV…
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Paal Keeps Me Young
A rare weekend post. Thursday night was spent in all bachelorhood as I ate way to much pizza and vegged out with video games and TV. Friday we had a half-day data center lab cleanup at work which was a nice change of pace. Afterwards I met up with Mark…
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Pearl Jam and Tom Petty
Last night Pearl Jam played a show in St. Paul and for the first time in my life I did not go to a show they played in the city I live in. Pearl Jam is only playing 5 shows in the midwest: 2 in St. Paul, 2 in Milwaukee,…
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Another Day in LA with Symantec
Another full day at Cutting Edge today. I met and learned a lot about the other side of the company, or what they sometimes call legacy Symantec. Mainly security, consumer products, and small business solutions. I never thought about how large of a company we’ve become but it’s cool to…
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Symantec Engineering Conference in LA
So this week I’m out in Los Angeles for Symantec’s “Cutting Edge” engineering conference. I flew in yesterday with our team lead, Dean. We took a taxi over to the Hyatt where we’re staying. The rooms are pretty nice and we seem to be in a nice part of Beverly…
