Vacation Planning

Posted 2622 days ago

Well, I am celebrating my last Spring Break ever in a little over then a week and I decided last Friday that I wanted to go somewhere I have never been before. I choose the Seattle/Olympic National Park area. I have wanted to go to Olympic National Park for 2-3 years now, ever since I got interested in hiking. Piecing a vacation together in 2 weeks has been tough. I have airline tickets and a rental car, but now I need to decide where I want to go. Should I stay in the city or go out to the wilderness. I just purchased the last copy of Hiking Olympic National Park from Amazon, as well as a Wide Angle lense for my Powershot A80. I shiped it 2-day so that I have enough time to plan out an itenerary. I plan on taking a TON of pictures at the highest resolution, so I am bringing my Powerbook to offload images. Olympic National Park is beautiful! The one place that I am absulotely not going to miss is Shi Shi Beach, rated one of the top 10 beaches in America for 2003 and 2004 by the Travel Channel.

That is the only for-sure thing that I have planned. I need to find lodging and I have a few leads on some lodges on the Pacific. I am really excited about this trip. Olympic is one of the most diverse areas in the States. Nowhere else on earth can you find a temporate rainforrest a few miles from a glacier and a few miles from one of the longest stretch of undeveloped ocean front. I have even read that you might catch a glimpse of a whale from Shi Shi beach in the spring.

Upgrading to Gnome 2.10

Posted 2622 days ago

I am currently following these directions to upgrade to Gnome 2.10. I had to add a few extra lines to /etc/portage/package.keywords to get it to start.

Only 237 Packages to go!!

Unix Screen

Posted 2627 days ago

A really nifty command in unix and linux environments is screen. You can execute screen, run a process, press CTRL+A+D to detach the screen, and the process that you ran while within screen will still be running. To reattach a screen, type screen -r. It is very usefull if you have to ssh somewhere with a short inactivity timeout and you want to run a long process.

ADO.NET 2.0

Posted 2628 days ago

It looks like Microsoft is beefing up ADO.NET for the next release of Visual Studio. This article explains the new typed DataSet and the new typed TableAdapter objects. Visual Studio 2005 will also come with a DataSet Designer which

is a significant improvement over the situation in Visual Studio 2002/2003, where we were forced into using an XML schema editor to define strongly typed DataSets.

The TableAdapter Configuration Wizard also looks pretty cool. It generates methods to manupilate the data that you have in a table or want to save to a table.

You’ve Reached The End Of The Internet

Posted 2632 days ago

I always found that commercial where the man finally gets broadband and is surfin’ the net, just clicking away at everything. Then he reaches the end of the internet and goes back to the family room where his wife is sitting. She says “I thought you were on the internet” and the man replies “I think I finished it!”

Modest Mouse
I saw Modest Mouse at the Eagles Ballroom last Saturday night. The opening bands were alright, but Modest Mouse were rockin’. They pumped out the big radio hits off of “Good News …” within the first 4 songs, which I thought was kinda cool. This left them the remaining of the show to mix up the slower paced songs and kept us wondering which song would be the closer and the encore. I felt old. I commented that I was happy that the entire high school graduating class of 2006 was able to show up. Holy Cow! I think that I saw at most 10 people of legal drinking age.

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Site Update
I fixed the missing background in the comments section.

I also added a bit of css code that I saw on Ticketmasters site. If you hover or select the search box, you will see a blue “selection” border just like the highlighted widgets on OS X.