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My son the drummer
Mar 23rd
We put my 6 year old in drumming lessons about a year ago and he is doing really well. His instructor has had him practice two songs and then recorded him playing the drums part. He just finished the second one yesterday and I thought I would post it for others to hear. sean on drums
In the recording session
Is college really worth it?
Dec 3rd
A very talented developer that I had the pleasure of meeting a few years ago has a very interesting post on her blog about the value of college. I am linking to it purely for my own future reference as a father.
http://laurenkuhlman.posterous.com/college-is-only-good-for-helping-rich-people
Hosting provider move
Oct 25th
I unfortunately need to change hosting providers and will be doing that today. Once done I would like to start back up with some posts but you know how well I do with those things.
5 Things that can make or break a killer Web site Design
Mar 8th
Very good article on some simple design principles Spyrestudios.com
New site
Mar 8th
Ok, so my blogging history isn’t good, but since I have no readers I suppose it isn’t that big of a deal. I have however decided to stat a new blog focused on Omniture Insight called aboutinsight.com. I do plan on keeping that more up to date than I have my personal blog.
Filemaker PauseOnError
Jan 22nd
This was a Filemaker overload week. I went to an un-conference put on by the Filemaker user community. Very good sessions and more things that I would like to learn.
WordPress Weekend
Nov 16th
I spent most of the weekend setting up four different instances of WordPress. Some have been more stressful than others. My personal site kevinmullins.com I think looks really nice ( I love the template http://digitalnature.ro/projects/mystique/) But a few sites I am not happy with them because I am trying to use WordPress more as a CMS then a blogging platform.
I really like WordPress for how easy it is to install and how easy it is to upgrade to new patched versions. My Hosting provider isn’t quick to update application install scripts so I like how easy I can manually do it. I find it much easier than Drupal, and for some of the things I would like to do I think Drupal would be better, but I am really impressed with how easy WordPress is to use and maintain. I do plan on going through this tutorial, http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/plus-tutorials-2/wordpress-as-a-cms-new-plus-tutorial/ but from reading the comments I still think I am trying to do more with WordPress than I should, but man I sure do like it. What are your thoughts?
The new WordPress sites:
psrally.com
mullinsconsulting.net
mullinsmuse.com (My sister’s site)
nextstepnw.com
New Site, New Objective
Nov 13th
I think I might actually start using my site a little bit to communicate about some things I am interested in. I know that there is no reason for anyone to view the site, but hey you never know. It is also an opportunity to play with WordPress. I have used Drupal a lot but decided to try WordPress on for size. So far I am not liking the Flickr widgets, but it isn’t the WordPress implementation, Flickr really makes it hard to link it in. The Twitter widget looks promising. Now I need to find others options, maybe Picassa?
PS3 & Netflix
Nov 12th
I have a PS3 and an XBOX 360. I used to be a big gamer but as life has gone by I tend to game less and less, so both boxes are more media devices than they are gaming devices. In my opinion the xbox kills the PS3 hands down (even though I love Blu-ray). The whole XBOX Live experience is just better and the integrated Netflix and now Zune content really make the XBOX stand out. Add on top of that the PlayOn service to stream Hulu, YouTube, Amazon OnDemand and you get a really good media machine. (Ok, same service runs on the PS3 also)
Well today I got my disk from Netflix to enable Netflix streaming on the PS3. First, it is a disk, because Sony isn’t ready to updated the software on the PS3 to do the streaming. I get disks all the time from Netflix, so it wasn’t that big of a deal. However, I open up the slave to learn that if I want to use the Netflix service I have to insert the disk each and every time. When I ordered the disk I assumed it would install on the PS3 like almost all games for the PS3 do (really annoying by the way!) No, much to my amazement you need to have the disk in each and every time you want to go through the internet to Netfilx and stream a movie. If that isn’t a failed implementation I don’t know what is!