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Apple iPad off to a rocky start

28 January, 2010 (23:59) | Technical Ramblings

Today was Apple’s big media day when they announced their new iPad product. The event turned out to be the ‘anti-climactic’ culmination of several weeks of hype that has been building since Apple sent out the mailers to the media inviting them all to the presentation.
The rumor mills were grinding stories including annoucement of a [...]

Pubsubhubbub – A trial and error effort

21 January, 2010 (22:15) | Technical Ramblings

I think I may have figured out what the issue is with my RSS feed not propagating via Pubsubhubbub. Apparently between the time that I first subscribed to my blog feed with Google Reader way back and now, my actual RSS feed url has since changed.
Between that time and now, I have upgraded the version [...]

I’ve Officially Become a Statistic of Guam’s iPhone Craze

2 January, 2010 (13:33) | Technical Ramblings

I did it. I bought an iPhone.  I am still able to boast that I was one of the Guam’s geekiest early adopters because I purchased a software unlocked iPhone from eBay well before Guam was officially on the iPhone map.
However, that piece of armor is no longer in my arsenal. It has been replaced by [...]

Wordpress’ iPhone app

14 December, 2009 (23:02) | Technical Ramblings

I just installed the Wordpress 2 iPhone app on my phone and I’m posting this from my phone right now. For some reason, I still haven’t been able to bring myself to update this blog often enough. I don’t seem to have any trouble coming up with content for my twitter stream and I am [...]

New Twitter service allows SMS based status updates for Guam Tweeters

4 May, 2009 (14:35) | Technical Ramblings

Guam tweeters now have the ability to post status updates to their Twitter feed from their plain jane mobile phones via text message.  Twitter.com offers their U.S. and U.K. based users support for sms integration with their twitter feeds.  Unfortunately for everyone else in the world, the numbers provided don’t work from these parts.
Jason Salas [...]

Learning the ins and outs of live sound reinforcement

6 January, 2009 (20:07) | Technical Ramblings

This past couple months, I was tasked by my church to identify the needs of our outdated auditorium PA system and bring us into this century in audio/video technology . . . without breaking the bank. Well, I’m not a professional sound stage engineer by any means. So what have I got going [...]

Welcome to Guam, USA. We’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy . . . but we might as well be.

11 November, 2008 (18:30) | Technical Ramblings

I just finished reading a really great post by my good friend Jason.  My friend has been a forerunner in the web landscape of our little island of Guam for the past . . . I don’t know eight years or so.  He’s also established himself as one of Guam’s foremost prognosticators (for lack of [...]

Playing with widgets

7 November, 2008 (00:58) | Technical Ramblings

I’ve been away for a long time and I apologize to all you fans out there who’ve been eagerly anticipating my newest post. Ha!  Who am I kidding?  The only one that’s been waiting for my next post is me.
Anyway, as you can see to the immediate right, I’ve finally tried to play around with [...]

Can Firefox stand up to the new kid in town?

7 September, 2008 (14:45) | Technical Ramblings

I must say that all the buzz about Google’s release of Chrome, their new browser offering, is definitely well founded.  It’s no wonder that when the company with one of the largest and arguably,most influencial presences on the web announced that they are releasing their version of the desktop browser, everyone stopped to take a [...]

If it ain’t broke. . . well now you’ve gone and broke it.

4 August, 2008 (23:55) | Technical Ramblings

This new venture that I’ve embarked on in the virtual blogosphere is quite intriguing to me.  But it might be for the wrong reasons.  I’m more stoked that I’m doing all of this out of my own little Sony VAIO sitting in my room.  It’s an amazing thought that the whole world can see what [...]