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