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