One thing I have learned from work­ing for the school sys­tem is that dry erase boards are pretty cool. They are great for map­ping out ideas, and mak­ing wire frames for web designs. That’s why I decided to make a dry erase board of my own.

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I put the new Win­dows 7 Pro on my work lap­top today (Dell Lat­i­tude E 5500), and was very impressed in how well it works. The lap­top seems more respon­sive than it did with Win­dows XP.

I have been using Win­dows 7 RC1 on my home com­puter for about 3 months now, and it has been pretty solid. I will con­tinue to use it until the RC runs out June 2010.

My favorite fea­ture is the Win­dows XP mode, where I can install older pro­grams that won’t work with Win­dows 7. Cool thing is that after you install a pro­gram to the vir­tual pc, it shows up on the Win­dows 7 side as well.

I changed the spark plugs in my truck today. I decided to try some E3 plugs I have heard so much about. I had to make two trips to the parts store because they shorted me two plugs, that will teach me to always check the bag.

After I got them installed, I took a lit­tle test drive. The truck did per­form a lit­tle bet­ter, had bet­ter throt­tle response. Of course the other plugs were worn out, I will never put Bosch plugs in a Toy­ota again, they didn’t last even 30k miles.

Only time will tell if they actu­ally make a dif­fer­ence in fuel economy.

I took my sis­ter and her fam­ily up on Hib­riten Moun­tain on Sat­ur­day. I took some pic­tures with my new phone, a Sam­sung Omnia I910, and I was impressed with the qual­ity of the pic­tures. The weather was nice on Sat­ur­day, and vis­i­bil­ity from the moun­tain was really good.

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Today I fixed my Par­ents’ RCA TV. It has a prob­lem that a lot of RCA TVs have in this model line. The Hor­i­zon­tal Out­put Tran­sis­tor goes out and the TV will not power on. Instead it just makes a high pitched sound and clicks (that is the fly­back try­ing to start).

Here is a lit­tle tuto­r­ial on how to block a pro­gram with Group Pol­icy, and the program’s hash.

I went to a tech­ni­cian meet­ing in Ashe county today with my fel­low Techs. We met at Ashe County High School to talk about all things tech related to the school sys­tem. We got some good infor­ma­tion on how to serve the schools bet­ter, and man­age the 5000 PCs that we have.

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This kid must have seen the movie “12 Mon­keys”, some kids pulled a sim­i­lar stunt in the movie.

Boy Believed to Have Been in Run­away Bal­loon Found – Local News | News Arti­cles | National News | US News – FOXNews​.com.

I am get­ting a new phone from work, a Sam­sung Omnia I910. Looks to be a cool phone, it has a full browser (Opera) and WiFi support.

Changed the site over to Word­Press – It is a lot sim­pler to use than MovableType.