We’re out of town on vacation this week, family coming down from Seattle and Boise to go to the SD Zoo (yesterday), Sea World (today) and DisneyLand (next 4 days). Here are my favorite pics from the last two days.
There has already been a long debate about hosting your own DNS servers and mail servers but I’ve found once again relying on Godaddy total DNS management and using GoDaddy e-mail forwarding has made my three migrations over the last year a breeze. So I suggest to everyone:
Suggestion One:
Don’t mix your host and your registrar. You might not see your domain again.
For anyone looking to create their own site I urge you, never register your domain with your host. There are too many hosts out there that are priced well and say they have great service but when you find yourself needing to move the domain that they registered for you will tie you down.
This is probably the only suggestion I can give to the majority since the next two are more for the VPS or dedicated server owners.
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One of my goals for this year was to play in the Ventura Golf Championship and just get some practice for another life goal; to win the Ventura Golf Championship. Now when I talk about the tournament I’m referring to the flights, flights are constructed for people with handicaps, I’m currently an 8 handicap so I played with people that play at the same level as myself. I tried my best this year to play in the A flight but my 7.5 handicap just placed me in the B flight.
Day One:
The flights started at Robles Golf Course in Thousand Oaks, just across the street from the TO mall. I hadn’t played there in about 4 years so the GPS Sky Caddie Bergman let me borrow helped out a lot with yardages. 
It was a beautiful day but if you were outside Saturday it was hot. 110 degrees at 10am isn’t good.
Through the first 9 holes I played even par with a birdie on the first, almost an eagle and a bogey on the second. Knowing the back nine was going to be rough I scrapped by with 5 bogies and 1 more birdie.
Overall, I wasn’t pleased with my play. Scoring wise was better then I expected but the way I played wasn’t shown with how many putts I had, a total of 33. Not good at all, especially since I average 29-30 a round. 3 strokes is a lot in a tournament to loose.
Total was a 65 Net and one back of the lead.
Day Two:
Sunday was played at Olivas Links. Olivas just opened and is completely different in comparison to the old course. 
I extended my good swings through the front side but my putter was completely off. I three putted the first hole and did the same on the third, I missed every chance at birdie and then came the back nine after a front nine of 4 over. Total putts for the day ended up being 36.
Wanting to just stay around 4 over I tried my best to play it “safe”, it didn’t work I was already 6 over through 13. I ended up birding 14, a very tough 600+ yard par 5 and then backing it up with a birdie on 15. I was looking good at that point until I tried to play it safe 16 were I tripled the hole after pulling a inexperienced 3 wood into the water where I didn’t know was reachable.
7 over on 18 I thought a par was perfect. I ended up doubling it after a couple duffs and a penalty from hitting it in the water.
Total score was a net 72.
I had thought I was middle of the pack after that crazy day but it ended up being okay. I was tied to 3rd, hoping to be in the final group I was placed in the second group just in front of the leaders.
Day Three:
The morning at Buena just felt comfortable. No range in the morning, I figured the 3 days of previous golf should have me “dialed” in.
Turns out I was, except my putter failed me again. I missed at least 4 short birdie putts and about 10 15 footers, that should be 70%.
In the beginning I was hitting the ball very well, I just couldn’t convert and going into the 10th with a good swing and a bad putter wasn’t going to end up well. The last six holes was horrible. All I wanted was to shoot a few over par, giving me something like a 65 which would give me a great chance of second place.
I forgot to mention, the reason I didn’t want to play int eh B flight was because of “sand bagger”, people that play better then their handicap. At this point the leader was 10 shots ahead and wasn’t possible to catch.
Back to 13, I started a bogey streak all the way through to the end. On 18 knowing I had to do something to contend in 2-4th place I tried too hard and hit the ball OB. I ended up with a double and my final score was a net 70.
Overall I was 5 under, thanks to the Robles play of day one. When I went into the clubhouse I was the leader, no way. After the last group came in the other players “choked” worse then I did and I ended up tied for second.
Awesome, I actually placed second while not playing to the level I’m accustomed to playing. So I have to be happy, I wanted to just place for prize money* before I Saturday and now that I know I can play better it will just help me next year.
*The prize money will be going to my own Sky Caddie.
Yesterday I e-mailed TLAS about the conversation happening over on one of my posts. Without entirely reading the entire post they noticed a “mac fan” was criticizing them for their stance on Apple and how it clearly biased their Apple news reporting. Chris responded with,
Mac fanboys are all trolls, and well, I try not to feed the trolls.
He is obviously feeling insecure about his “Mac faith” so he needs to
attack us to rally the troops so that they can reassure him that his Mac
life style is worth basing his entire self worth around it. The sad part
is I feel sympathy for that poor man, he does not even realize thats
what he is doing. So I say let them spin their own wheels, they aren’t
getting anywhere and it’s fools like him that killed resexcellence.com.
He is the very type of person that nailed that coffin shut.Thanks anyways man! You rock,
You’ll notice he didn’t understand I was the “fool”ish “troll” that he had “sympathy” for. I had originally wrote it off because it seemed to me he was just lumping me with any mac fanatic and I wasn’t about to defend them. But it turns out that he just lumps any person in the mac community into this description.
I come to this conclusion after digging around at resexcellance and seeing Phill Ryu’s post about Bryan Lund.
I’m going to grab some of my comments form the original post here. The tweet was about how the show has a direct anti-apple stance. And with reading Phill’s post, remembering the marketing ploy and the comments about the issue it’s clear to me that TLAS motivations to keep Apple down is entirely personal.
YouTube hits Apple TV today, headed for the iPhone as well – Engadget
The wait is over, and you can finally train that Apple Remote of yours on videos of passable karaoke, mind numbing video blog confessions and the genius that is Daxflame. That’s right, YouTube is hitting the Apple TV today, an announcement that is totally overshadowed by a little surprise Apple packed into the press release: YouTube is the iPhone mystery app. Sure, it might not be GPS or anything useful like that, but Apple seems to be aware of our addiction and is happy to oblige. YouTube videos can be viewed through an Apple-built application on the phone, and will be encoded in H.264 by YouTube to improve video quality and battery life on mobile devices. They’ll have 10,000 videos ready by June 29th, and should complete transcoding the collection by this fall. Videos can be viewed over WiFi or EDGE, we don’t want to even imagine the painful load times of the latter.
I’m not too excited about the feature for the iPhone (since I wont be getting one) but I’m just about to check out YouTube on AppleTV and I’ll get a review up soon.
This is just in time for the summer TV blues where the only show some stations has to offer is horrible contest shows. But I’m still waiting for a real IPTV solution from Apple, hopefully Joost or Google will help because pay-per-show isn’t cheap, nor good enough quality.
For the past couple months I’ve been having some real problems with my Macbook Pro just shutting down when it goes to reserve power rather then gracefully shutting down and going into an automatic suspend where it restarts loading the cached memory like it never shut down at all. A huge feature I’ve been missing and had been too lazy to figure out. Then in the last few weeks it’s been just shutting down anywhere from 45 minutes to a full hour before the battery was supposed to run out. Extremely annoying when you are writing something and your work is completely lost. I was prepared to send the entire macbook pro back to Apple but instead I checked out if I was eligible for the battery recall that I remembered was such a edia blitz a while back and I then noticed the battery had swelled up. So I filled out the online form for a replacement.
The great news is, I finally have a fully working macbook pro thanks to Apple shipping the replacement overnight for free. I’m clocking about 3 hours of battery life compared to the 1.5-2 spontaneous hours I had just a few days ago. I also ordered another battery which I’ve heard good things about.
This is a prime example of participating in battery recalls instead of just ignoring them. It could have been a lot worse and my lap could have been destroyed or our house burnt down.
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I hadn’t told anyone yet but I had to get an occlusal guard. I’ve apparently been grinding my teeth at night so much that my K9s are smooth. Last year my dentist mentioned it and I thought it wasn’t possible since Sara never told me. Turns out Sara had told me and my dentist last month told me I needed to get one because I could destoy my teeth through chipping.
And now Martha and I have something else in common. And I don’t know who has it worse; even though I need to have my contraption in at night while she needs it in 24/7 for the next two years I wonder if the nightly thing for the rest of my teeth’s life is going to be a drag. At least for now it doesn’t hurt and I slept great last night. I thought for sure it would give me problems but it seems I only woke up a few times last night compared to the constant tussle.
Here’s a picture of the thing if you were wondering,
Colin Powell spoke this morning about Business Responsibility when it comes to philanthropy, something both Sf and Google do very well. His talk was very personable, he had some great stories and insight from his life as the former Secretary
of State. I really loved an imitation he did of Bush because he not only signified the absurdity of what bush said but he got the accent perfect. I’m not really go into detail of what he said but it’s awesome to hear someone who’s so powerful even after retirement talk so humble. One story involved him at the airport a few weeks after he “retired” being wounded by security, lol.
Thank you GarageSale, you’ve just made my weekend a little easier. And since you were so nice to me I had to buy you. Hopefully you’ll pay for yourself soon enough.
Seriously though, the tool is great. 74 templates, built in FTP and image editing. I’m looking forward to tracking all my auctions through it. And controlling the payments, emails and feedback through it too. It’s going to be nice fore Sara when she starts listing a bunch of stuff and with it storing templates it’s going to make her life so much easier.
# Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.
# Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
# Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
# If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.
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