Monday, March 31, 2003

Someone has hacked my blog for my youth groups website. I can't log into blogger.com.

Saturday, March 29, 2003

Went to Tyler today. I finally found the zoo. When I got there it was closing. I was upset. But at least I know where it is now. I got a shirt at JcPenneys with the free candy coupon they were handing out. Well, I just got down digitalizing my Star Trek First Contact. It came out perfect.

Thursday, March 27, 2003

I guess I am going to have to find a new layout for my website. This one does not work with Mozilla or Opera.
Mail Call: Contact U.S. Troops Digitally
With limited access to snail mail, troops in Iraq log on to stay in touch.
Blogging for a better view
If you've never checked out a Web log, or "blog" for short, now may be a good time. Think of blogs as an online journal -- one that is often incredibly vivid.
Soldier 'bloggers' report from war
There's a new breed of combat personnel at the war front: soldier "bloggers."
Game Boy's new look
Nintendo dominates the mobile gaming market with its series of Game Boy handheld gaming consoles. However, gamers have raised issues over the gadgets' ability to properly illuminate the screen. Nintendo may have an answer for the critics with its Game Boy Advance SP. The model goes on sale this month, so you will be able to decide for yourself.
Tonight I finally got to hook up my computer to the projector. It worked great. I managed to get the songs that we sing into a powerpoint presentation. He worked ok but it was not great. I guess I used the wrong font. It looked pixeladed. But we played the short movie that we made during the youth lock in and it looked good. Pictures looked good on it too.

Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Microsoft goes its own way

A split with a working group reflects growing discord over Web services standards. Also: The software maker appoints an insider to head up its worldwide sales organization.

Adobe site dings Apples

An Adobe Systems executive denied that the company is advocating Windows PCs over Apple's Macintosh, despite a new page on Adobe's Web site that claims PCs run Adobe software faster.

Face recognition gets lift, says U.S.

Spurred by two federal antiterrorism statutes, the Commerce Department this month released a study showing that face-recognition technology is hitting its stride.

Microsoft Internally Corrects XP SP1 Slowdown

Windows XP Service Pack 1 brought about many fixes for Microsoft's flagship operating system, but a change to the memory management system caused applications on some machines to run much slower. A source told BetaNews that most performance complaints received by Microsoft came from users running a Pentium 4 processor. Microsoft recently acknowledged the problem and privately issued a hotfix, but a patch has not yet publicly appeared on Windows Update or Microsoft's Download Center.

Video gamers play on despite war

Whether in war or peace, video games involving blazing guns and bloody conflict are as popular as ever in the United States, with more than six new war games set to hit the shops in the coming weeks. Games makers and industry analysts say that war against Iraq, whether people support it or not, should do little to diminish consumer appetites for the games.

Nintendo counts on new Game Boy

Japanese video game maker Nintendo said on Tuesday it had invested heavily in a redesigned version of its top-selling Game Boy Advance to boost sales in the vital but struggling European and American markets.

Will shuttle risks always be high?

NASA may have to live with a risk factor of two catastrophes for every 113 shuttle flights, so it should limit its crew size and use robots and unmanned rockets whenever possible, a missile and rocket expert said Tuesday.

Saturday, March 22, 2003

I did not make it to Tyler today. And I am not in a very good mood.
I'm going to Tyler today. Going shopping at Best Buy, Circuit City, and alot of other places. I would go see my friend but he moved and his current location is top secret. I don't even think the goverment knows. Just kidding. I need a new hard drive for my computer. A 40 GB should do just fine.

Thursday, March 20, 2003

"Tell them about Jesus. He means everything to me."
--A note left by Columbia Commander Rick D. Husband with Houston's Grace Community Church Pastor Steve Riggle, in case he died in a shuttle accident, as reported in the Washington Post.
We are at war! I am not worried. I want a canon ZR40.

Wednesday, March 19, 2003

I'm sick. I have a sore throat and stuffy head.

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

I want a Canon ZR40
Well, everything I said on March 14th does not look like it is going to happen. I can't stand it when people have technology at their hands and they don't use it.

Saturday, March 15, 2003

Well, It is 4:25 here and we just got done shooting the crazy movie that my youth group was doing. It was a murder movie. This girl was walking outside and she gets murdered. Then we did a scene where we have the eyewitnesses come in and tell what they know. Then we took pictures with my digital camera of the 4 guys that we thought that did the murder. We hooked up my camera to the small TV and off camera I switched through them. It was cool. Then I took a picture of the girl that got murdered. We took the overhead projector and held it just off camera so the light would be on her face. She was laying on the table like she was dead. I took a picture of her with my flash. It looked like she was stone white on the TV. I have to say on the small TV it looked like she was dead. It was good. Then I created a graphic with the letters FBI and I went to the FBI's website and got their seal and put that on the wallpaper that I made. It looked real. And we had a gun that looked real. Yes, it was crazy and at times messed up. It took 5 hours and it only was a 2-minute film. But, at the end I told the guys to do what ever they wanted to the murderer and it was awesome. I will have some of the pictures up later.

Friday, March 14, 2003

You can see from the webcam that I am not home. I am at my church. The youth is having a lock-in. And I brought my computer over again. The pastor is going to help me hook it up to the projector. We might start using it in youth to display the songs and announcements up on the wall. I found a program that is like PowerPoint. It is Open Office. I don't need anything great. It does the job. I hope that it works. I would like to start using it in youth. I just wish that I did not get rid of my laptop.

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

I took my computer to youth group tonight. That is why the webcam image is in a different place. That is my youth pastor.
What Your Clothes Say About You

In a move wireless industry analysts say will infringe on customers' privacy, clothing designer Benetton plans to weave radio frequency ID chips into its garments to track its clothes worldwide. Source: Wired News

Friday, March 07, 2003

I went into AllTel at Walmart to see if the Motorola T720 would work in my area and she said it would. I did not think it would work. I am going to look into getting one now.
Now the fun begins. I am going to try to find a reasonable web host and start playing around with movable type.
I emailed EV Williams the former owner of blogger.com to get him to look into why my account has not been canceled yet. He took care of it. Thank you very much to EV and Jason.

Wednesday, March 05, 2003

I have canceled my blogspot plus account. A banner should be returning to the top. And my pictures will be deleted. I hope I don't loose my blog, but if I do then it is ok. I have decided to get a web host and use movable type. Should be fun to learn.