Oh, how you gotta love Apple(s).

As you probably noticed, the site has undergone a big redesign. However, a redesign isn’t without its flukes. What do you think of the site? The new logo?

Please, tell me your opinion in the comments.

I’ll also probably be making some small changes in the upcoming few days, too.

One thing I will be trying to correct in the near future is the fact that the background for the page is almost 1MB. Quite a download.

One more thing; this theme will eventually be drawn out to all parts of the blog, including the podcasts, projects, and possibly a new landing/home page.

As some of you may know, this site is hosted at home on my Windows Vista box. However, as I bought my MacBook, I’ve decided that I need to run a more solid OS on my Server. So, In comes Server 2008. I’m eligable for the Microsoft DreamSpark Promotion (read: Free Server 2008), so I figure I might as well get some use out of it.

Anyways, with that said, there might be a little downtime in the next couple weekends.

I just went to the local Apple Store and bought a new aluminum MacBook! It has a 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3 1066Mhz RAM, and 160GB HDD. Some people may think you need the top-of-the-line model, but I do not.

Update: Some of the features that I greatly enjoy (after using it for about a week) are the glass trackpad (with multitouch gestures: amazing!), the ambient light sensor for the display, and the chicklet keyboard (lowers errors and improves typing speeds in my opinion). Maybe sometime I’ll write a full review, but for now, all I have to say is that I would rate it a 4.5/5!

Here are a few of my favorite Windows Sidebar Gadgets.

1. isAlive

• Checks every 10 minutes to see if your website is up
• mirror

2. Piano (no longer avaiable)

• A small (or large, if you drag it off the sidebar) piano that you can play by clicking the keys or using your keyboard.
• Still beta, abandoned.
• download

3. Network Meter (download: wired/wireless)

• Although sometimes buggy, this gadget allows you to see all of the traffic going in and out of your computer’s NIC.
• mirror: wired/wireless

4. Skype Gadget by Craig

• Gadget that allows you to see who’s online.
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5. Amnesty

• This is a cool generator that lets you make your own gadgets out of web widgets from your website of choice. Its pretty cool.

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Right now, skype is being really stupid. I have been chatting with someone for the past hour and all of the sudden, skype decides that it is too good to chat with this person and disconnects me. Not only does it disconnect, it won’t reconnect. Occassionally, one chat message goes through, however, that is very very rare. I really want skype to work, but maybe WLM or AIM is in my near future. Goodbye.

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I know that I haven’t posted anything super useful in a while, and to tell you the truth, making blog posts every day gets tedious and looses its fun after a while. Therefore, I have decided to redesign this blog. It may consist of a pre-built theme, or maybe I’ll make my own (doubtful, but it could happen ). Anyways, it won’t change for a while, but it will sometime soon… I also have another big announcement to make, look for that in the next few weeks.