Etown is going swell!!!

I thought I would throw an update on the old blog. Right now I am at work and doing pretty well it took just a day and I am back into the swing of things once again. The best apart about this visit is I am doing a bunch of cool stuff. For instance, I changed my alternator in my truck in one hour and 30 mins. Which might be really long but when you are very non car savy. I think its pretty good.

I got the grades back:

ART 121 -- A
MGT 350 -- A
CIS 304 -- A
TSM 343 -- B
TSM 340 -- B FIN 330 -- C

For the term GPA: 3.33
Cumalative as of now: 3.45

(not to shabby dropped 4 points from a 3.49)

If I am not mistaken I think I called this one from day one. Which is sweet ASS, I must be Nostradamus or something.

E-town Tablet

I am in Elizabethtown, Ky  sitting on a couch and writing this e-mail on a tablet PC.  I am also babysitting at the  same time I can't believe I am actually writing out this post.

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Heath Brown

Portable Apps -- Virtual CDrom portability

Oh yeah once again I am all in to portable Apps. Tonight I was kinda playing around and discovered two things one is PStart (a portable application control panel) which will search your thumb drive then once you install the application portable to your thumb drive it will create a tray icon which you can then run and have the control panel show all portable apps on your thumb drive.

The other thing I found that was really pretty neat is the Virtual Cd rom tool that I use can be used portably, if of cource the sys file that comes with it is placed in the C:\Windows\system32\drivers folder of the machine your trying to use it on. the cool part is once that sys file is dropped you can then use the virtual Cd-rom to load iso images from network drives and therefore never use a cd if you don't want to. This tool is very useful especially if you don't have the CDs or DVDs to burn to. Oh yeah, the tool also loads DVD iso images.


Check it out!!!!

Portable Applications

Ok I love stand alone executables, I also enjoy apps that may have a folder but can work portably off a USB thumb drive.  These portable programs bring functionality and make life a little easier.  Some Portable apps that I am currently trying are: 

• Portable Firefox
• Portable Filezilla
• Portable Abiword
• Portable NVU
• Portable GAIM
• Portable OpenOffice

All these programs are free and all run off of the USB thumb drive they are nothing to new but they are new to me and pretty kick ass.  I mean GAIM on my thumb drive is pretty huge.  Another program I am currently working with off my thumb drive that isn't accessible except for a few people is Defygo, a portable password manager and file encrypter. A few of my friends are developing this program and its still in its infancy but looks to be pretty huge.  Anyway I will be trying to put up my thoughts on these programs as well as all the other programs I am working with  to keep who ever passes by up to date.

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Heath Brown

Nice Weekend

Even though that next week is finals I decided that a small get away was a neccessasity.  This weekend Amber and I went to Buca di beppo, a really nice Italian restuarant that is family style so the portions are huge.  Then we went to The Cheesecake Factory, which is probably the best cheesecake I have ever had in my entire life.  The food was good Amber looked hot and all and all I had a good time. 

Also during the weekend we stayed at my cousin's house (where I stay at during the summer) in Elizabethtown.  Next weekend, I go back up to Elizabethtown to begin work over the Christmas break.  I am pretty excited about that. 

This week is closing down because of finals.  It has been a decent semester and it looks like I will be decent grades.  Hopefully my grades will look like this:

MGT 350 --- A
ART 121  --- A
CIS 304   --- B
TSM 343 --- A
TSM 340 --- B
FIN 330  --- C

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Heath Brown

New Fruit ????

Alright Pomegranates are not a new fruit but to me it was a discovery that was so sweet!!!  Who knew that a funny looking onion thingy would be so full of sweet, tart seeds that are quite tasty and fruity.  The trick is to cut the onion looking fruit in half then begin picking the seeds out (this is a messy procedure).  Don't be fulled after picking all the seeds out around 20 or so you'll be like gosh where are all the seeds.  They are under the white parts just keep ripping open the fruit and more and more seeds will be found pick them all out into a bowl there will be around 613 seeds which is a ton of seeds.  They are so delicious and they are actually good for you.

Try it they can be found at Wal-mart for like 25 cents.  Sweet deal for a tasty treat.
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Heath Brown

I am a Doofus!!!!

Ok so the whole point of a Laptop is so that you can take anywhere and be able to work on your computer and be productive from anywhere.  Well, I have a Laptop, I love the thing, it goes with me everywhere, ok, that said, Laptops also need to be recharged.  Well since I came home for Thanksgiving break and was kinda in a rush to leave work.  I left the my cable that goes into my AC adapter at work.  I only have one of these and now it is 1.5 hours away sitting in the surge protector.  Ok tonight without realizing it I started to play my brother in a little Commnad and Conquer a resource hog in its own right.  Well about half way through the game my battery said, "I am low".  So I started to get in my bag for my adapter I pulled it out, one problem no freaking cord to the reciptical I had accidentally pulled the cord that hooks from the reciptical into the adapter at the office I am and was pissed. 

Ofiicially i am know sitting here on my old desktop computer tyring to do work I can with what I got.  I did however order a Power adapter and had it shipped Next Day air the cost around 65.00 to me Priceless.  Having a backup power adapter is very good.  Hopefully I won't be a dumbass anymore nad leave the damn thing at work.

Lesson:  Don't leave vital parts at the office.  Stupid!!!!

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Heath Brown

Product Testing -- PSPad (1)

Ok I am starting a new type of blogging for myself I am going to be doing some reviews just to do some reviews of programs I experiment with. Every Post title with Product Testing -- [name of program] will be these posts.

Ok here is the first post.

I am currently using a program called PSPad. This is a freeware text file editor but is way more than that. It actually can edit all types of files were talking txt, html, php, css, c++, COBOL, MS-DOS, JavaScript, etc. Here is a screen shot of all the file types.

PSPad allows allows you to set up projects inorder to easily access files for doing some kind of project or just working on a mass of files that are similar. These projects can be set up and can mimic the file structure of your folder structure of the project your working on. Here is a screen shot of the Projects.

Along with projects and accessing almost any type of file PSpad also has many other functions such as syntax highlighting, tabbed editing, as well as other features.

I have explored the program pretty well up to this point but there is still alot I don't know about over the next few weeks however I will be going into depth of it.

There are a few things I don't like so far about PSPad though. It does not automatically update whenever you remove a file or folder in the main structure of the folders it does not remove the file or folder in the project view. which is not good.

I will also over the next few weeks be going over other programs that I find interesting.

A new post

Alright so last weekend I went to E-town which was a fabulous weekend.  It was fun and relaxing.  Amber and I enjoyed the time away from school emensley, sometimes you just need a break from your current surrondings, and is exactly what we got by going up to E-town.  While we were up there we went to a fabulous Mexican resturant that I frequent during the summers that I stay up and work in E-town with some neighbors and friends.  The name of the resturant is Los Nopolas, which is fabulous and good even be better than Los Portales in Murray.  Along with eating great food, and spending time with family and friends we also went and visited some sites that we found in the movie Elizabethtown.  Ok so I thought there was more but we only could find one from the movie and if I had my cord to my camera I would post the pics, but alas I do not.  Well anyway last weekend was so awesome and I just wanted to say that it was awesome.

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Heath Brown

Gettin' Ready for the Weekend

Alright made it through one heck of a week of school.  It has been one of those weeks at Murray State, nothing but business, running around and doing serious projects worth 15% of my grade.  Stress has definatley been apart of my life this past week.  But that is ok, this weekend I am heading up to E-town.  This weekend's plans consist of going home Friday enjoying my Bro's B-Day, then driving to E-town on Sat and Sun to catch up with my cousins and friends up there. 

I need this little mini vacation away from school for the weekend and I can't wait.

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Heath Brown

Mid Term Grades

So I got my mid term grades today, needless to say I did better than expected which is cool.  I am still pretty stressed about this semester and still fradazzled about ART 121 (the devil).  Anyway here is the run down on my grades:  A in ART 121, A in MGT 350, B in TSM 340, B in TSM 343, B in CIS 304, and B in Fin 330.  All in all I am pleased with my grades however I hope to have all these grade up by one and finally pull a 4.0 for the first time in a long time.  That would be so sweet.

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Heath Brown

Me and Amber

 

Insomnia once again

So once agian I find myself just chillin' out and staying up half the night just working on really nothing.  I try to learn stuff but its so hard right now.  My mind is cluttered with all kinds of junk, its hard to explain how busy my mind is.  I am taking 18 hours of classes which isn't bad just I don't think 20 hours of work mixes well.  Even though its only 18 hours it is starting to bite and it hurts when it does bite.  ART 121 a class I am taking on the WEB is sticking it to me.  The Assignments are not hard just take quizzes then a Midterm then more Quizzes then a final.  The only problem is I am teaching myself practically and its one of those things where I am not the best at motivating myself with something that boring.  This is just one of those semesters when I can't wait for it to be over with quicklly.  I am pulling B's and C's and A's at this point and hopefully I can pull something out towards the end of the semester but with professors pulling projects out their ass its going to be hard to get on top and stay on top.

Post from Email

Tonight I am trying out posting to blogger from email by emailing my post to a special blogger address.  This is just a test to see if it works.

Banging on the Keys

I figure tonight would be a good night to bang the keys a little. Maybe write a post about what is going on or something.

School is back in session, indeed it is back, and I excited about the classes that I have and the professors that I have. I think my classes won't be that difficult just because I don't thinkg the class will be that bad. Of course with every class you have to put the work in to get a decent grade. I plan on working hard because I do want that elusive 4.0. Hopefully this will be the year that I place A's all over it.

Right now as we speak I am using Google Desktop Search 2.0 which I think is cool, and google Talk. I like Google, I like them because all their stuff is simple to use. No fuss, no frills, just solid stuff and its fun to use. I like the plan backround the simple color schemes of Gmail and Google Talk. As the guys say from work I am on some seroious Koolaid for Google.

Updating...

I finally have decided to update my blog. Since last time I updated nothing has changed. I am still currently working at iPay Technologies, LLC in Elizabethtown, KY for the second summer. I even got class credit for the internship this year. I only have about 3 weeks till school starts and I think I am ready for school. For one thing I want to see my girlfriend whom I haven't seen in quite sometime this summer, I can't to get back to see all my friends and hang out, I can't wait to go back to work and see what I have missed. The new Apex Center is sure to be a delight.

I think this year at school will be exciting and fun. I of course will have to work pretty hard with 18 hours of classes and 20 hours of work. This will be the epic balance. I am taking some harder level classes that is in effort. Such as CIS 304, TSM 340, TSM 343, Fin 330, MGR 350, and Art 121. I don't think Finance, management, or art will be that hard. Art is a online course my first, and the others just don't seem that difficult. CIS and my TSM classes I know will be some work that I will have to put in and I need to really push myself for better academic performance this year.

Hopefully, by the end of this school year I will be hired again for the summer to iPay once again, and make a 3rd appearance. I enjoy working there especially working under a guy like David Brooks who has been in the business of computers for 30 years. Plus has seen all kinds of systems and infrastructures.

Finally, Ambi will be the best sight for my eyes because I haven't seen her in like a month and I can't really go that long without seeing her. Hopefully, if all goes to plan we will take it to the next level in our relationship (fiancee). I know it sounds soon, but I will be 21 and I know that she is the one for me. I love her to death.

Well that is about all that is going right now hopefully I will get on track when school starts and chronicle my events a little better than I have this summer.

Plus, I am typing tonight on my new laptop that I got a few weeks ago.

Its awesome.

Knowing is half the battle...

If knowing is half the battle then exactly how hard is the battle are fighting? Good question I know, what makes me think of it? I have no idea, I am so tired, I am really just wore out. Running from Webster to E-town to Illinois is crazy. I got back here on Sunday at like 11:30 and I left at like 5:00 I was so exhausted. However, works has been a breeze which really sucks, I wish that they would give me something meaningful to do, but they are going through a IT audit and aren't allowed to give me the persmissions in order to do what I was doing last year. I can't get on to any of the servers or any of that I can't even look at different things I have been training on in Classes all semester it just pretty much sucks this year. I say that but I did get a 1.50 raise and you can't beat that. Anyway I hope that it gets better and I hope that the end of the summer will be better than the last.

Good to hear from Friends...

I have yet to really make a trip back home that lasts more that a few days, last weekend (my birthday) it felt like I was in and out of the county in less than five minutes. Basically, I run from Elizabethtown up to Illinois then back home in Dixon. All I do is drive, so when my friends say Hey it is a warm welcome. Although only a few have said hey which is cool because everyone is busy during the summer. I know I am really busy this is probably the first time that I have been on the computer of my own in a long while. But anyway I must be off again because I can't sit still.

in E-town

So at this point I am in Elizabethtown ky doing my intern thing for another year which is one sweet gig its a little hard to keep up with because i am so busy all the time, however, this year i am really having a good time up in E-town i am not just alone and to myself i help out with the kids and i am really trying not to be a burden on kelly and jason because i know how it is when you have your own place and someone comes in and tries to get your stuff and moves it around, it ain't cool.

So basically i am just chillin as usual but having a delightful time doing it.

What's in a title...

So basically I am just chillin over the weekend till I make my journey for the summer to my summer job, in Elizabethtown. Alirght now I will have some great stories to tell cause that place is like awesome. My girlfriend found a nanny job for the summer which is sweet so she will be able to see on the weekends which is really sweet considering that is the only times we will get to spend any kind of time together over the next 3 months. The cool thing is she will be an Ra next year in my dorm so that I will get to see her everyday and everynight cause she is in the same building as me. No more checking her in and out which is like sweet. So many sweet attributes to your girlfrined living in the same buliding can it be any sweeter, I don't think so.

Still up!

This post if for the night birds of the world, it is like almost 3:00 am and I am still not asleep I just can't get ot sleep I don't know why. Is it weird I think I am a narkoleptic, you know the people that stay up all night long and can't go to sleep because of some kind of chemical inbalance in their brains. I think that is probably my worst problem is that i can't go to sleep, maybe i had to much sugar today or I am thinking about like fifty things I have to do this week. School is stressing me, shhh don't tell nobody. ECO is due Thurs. and my group and I are going to take it to the limit. This should be a fun time.

Anyway its good luck for me. OOOPPPPEEEEE.

OOps I craped my pants!!!

WOW, the end of the semester is here and the taste for blood is in the water, I think everyone I know has Summer fever. I have a bad case of it, I have a 10 page paper due in ECO on Thurs. its Tues. and I haven't really started yet, yikes. I have taken on another small job, Tutoring for money. Yeah i know what do you have to tutor for well its pretty easy I am going to be tutoring a woman for Microsoft Office. This should be rather exciting since the lady is paying me real money and it is going to be for a while or until the end of school. I don't know how it will work out because it is like 2 hours a night beginning tomorrow and I have all kinds of assignments and what not coming up. Hopefully I will get them done before any of the other stuff comes to blows. Well I shall wish good luck to myself and adue.

The Mission

ok so my friends and I have decided to make a game. Yes a computer game, but not just any game the game of the centurary. This game prolly won't be as great as we say but it will be there. It will be a rpg game and at that it takes on alot of things from every rpg game every made. So basically we are trying to start this thing and in order to have our ideas communicating I have put on my server a forum.

This forum is run straight from phpbb which is a program that is based in php and it is pretty sweet. The game is code named Night Fox I know what your saying Jesus these guys our nerds but it is something to hang on to especially with friends. So anyway it is going to be so cool, as for right now I am currently studying C++ so that we can make this game run and hopfully I can master it in a short time.

Until then you can check out the site. http://brownhostingonline.com/nightfox its not done just yet and it is in php but its not all bad ass or nothing just plain and pretty fast.

Killin' PHP is so sweet

I have discovered the world of PHP which is pretty sweet I must say, I was surprised at how easy this was. I only use it for simple non PHPie things but it does make me look all cool cause I am using it to put together a simple web page which is really surprisingly easier than with a template in Dreamwever. Did I just say that?? I am such a bad man. That is terrible to talk about a god sent like Dreamweaver.

Oh yeah I just thought that I say something about my life. It is going splendid.

Me Dancing around in my Under Armor 

Daniel in Chicago IL on the road trip 

Dan and BJ in chicago, IL on our road trip 

Me and Amber 

Me on spring Break with my Tiki cup and my Lifeguard MuG 

Amber in a hat 

amber 

Gaim goes slow on file transfers Why???

ok I am a Gaim user I love using Gaim. However I discovered a small pet peeve with Gaim file tranfers for some reason over Gaim take forever I mean a really long time. MSN doesn't take half as long to send files over, but Gaim takes like a few min solid which is not good when your impatient like me. So it looks as if I am going to have to dig into this problem, yes RESEARCH. Which sucks balls. I wonder if there is some kind of setting I am overlooking maybe not tweaking it just right or it just doesn't have the capabilities of other messenging technologies out there.

I hope there is some way of tweaking or something because sending something to a friend sucks balls if you are on a network and the file goes crawling along.

Its the end of School as we know it!!

Yes, it is here, or is it, yes it is here. The end of school for this year well almost only 3 more weeks. Finally summer time it will be so sweet. Riding all the waves, wait no I am working this summer thats right working once again in the office from 8:00-5:00 which is a sweet deal.

World is looking up!

So I was reading the paper today and iterestingly enough two things that I enjoy are in the technology section. Blogs and Firfox I can't believe my excitement when I saw that on the paper. This is really up my alley since I just discovered Blogger and firefox not to long ago. Anyway when I read the awesome review on firefox I just couldn't believe how cool it was to read a local newspaper brag about this cool web browser. I mean I didn't realize how many people don't know there is another option to IE. Then the article of blogs was interesting when it talked about MSN and Yahoo starting theirs and they mentioned Google's blogger. They said that Blogger was like way ahead of the competition because of all the options and the ease of use. That article just makes me smile quite big.

Monopoly

so I am in econonmics this semester as I was last semester. I don't know if I have really learned that much but one thing I learned was what a monopoly is. A game that I know love to play and always have loved to play is Monopoly. The game board version, or the computer version it doesn't matter i love the game. I don't what makes it fun buying properties and holding up all the money or knowing that it is a fictiona game and I know I won't loose any money or that it isn't my money I am spending in order to get the stuff.

Playing monopoly for like six hours straight is my idea of a great time which is really creepy considering most people think that monopoly is hte devil because it takes patience and ease of mine and knowing what we want to do.

Most of the time I don't know why but I can play that long.

Typing like I can't stop

If I keep pressing keys something good has got to happen right because its all about the speed accuracy of a person who uses a computer alot. I mean think about it practice makes perfect with like anything you do so if i keep practicing my keyboarding skills by typing eventually I will have to become faster better and able to type at speeds unimaginable before. I mean I have been on this rave for like the past week and a half. Just keep typing and typing and going. Its like the next keystroke might be my last. it really doesn't matter how many I get but if I keep going I know I will want more. I must keep going, must keep stroking the keys, must press each one and not think anything about it. If I do this then I might have a shot at keep on typing up a storm. I might be good one day. I might be a good typist. I might be able to really hit the super speedy tactics.

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Your Drivin me nuts

Funny little story about 'drivin me nuts', A pirate walks into a bar Bartender notices a fuzzy tail in the Pirates Fly region. Bartender looks at the Pirate and says, "Why you got that squirrel in your pants?". Pirate looks at the Bartender and says, " Arrrgggg matey, he's drivin me nuts"!

OH my dad that was funny!!!

If you didn't think so maybe you should try telling a pirate joke go ahead.

Funny Post

This is a funny link I think anyone might enjoy:

http://www.cartoline.it/pics/_zoom_flash.htm?immagine=scherzi_150404_01.swf

directiions for use:

1. Insert the coin
2. Choose your drink
3. Click the cup
4. Click the word Apri
5. And watch!!!

Hint: Turn your volume up!!

Covering up the mess you made with a newspaper

Ever made a mess that you thought you could just cover up with newspaper just throw the newspaper down on the spill and in seconds dryness has now been reached in the room.

Is it that simple to cover up a mess you have made? I ask not because I think newspaper is the only way to clean up a mess, but can you really cover up something you spilt in your own life with some newspaper. I know it sounds to philosophical and deep but still can you...

I love computers

I think that I am obsessed with computers to the point that it is a sickness. I recently filled out a survey on how many hours a day your on the computer. I had to sadly put more than 10 hours a day on the computer. That is just an average I am probably on a computer at least 10-16 hours a day.

Is this a sickness can I be healed? The weird part is when I am not on computers I am talking about them. Weird how a hobby, a passion, becomes an obsession.

Wilco the Greatest Band Ever

It comes a time when you listen to a band and the music makes you feel something, makes you really feel good. Wilco is the band for that with their electrifying songs and solos in their music. They can't be tied down with a genre it just doesn't work. One listen to a song and you are taken away at first you don't what to think. Listen and find out!!!

WILCO

PC Security Links

Here are some of the products I use on my computer check them out if you want to:

AVG Antivirus
Ad-aware SE
Win AntiSpyware

Some pretty cool stuff that is free and is pretty cool:

602PC Office Suite

Digital Photos

How to get Picasa 2?
Click this link Picasa

How to get on to Flikr?
Click this link Flikr