What Color will new Stig wear?

When the last Stig(who wore black) was  revealed, he was immediately killed off in the TV series. He was replaced with the current Stig(who wore white).  Now what color will the next stig be?  I could guess that would go with a Silver/gray Stig or even a Red Stig,  but only time will tell.

Some Say that he is stupid for giving up his job as the Stig so he can publish a book, and that no one will read the book as he killed the mystry of the Stig,  all we know is that he is called Ben Collins….

What is in my set top box and what works.

My basic set top box is currently a Windows 7 laptop with the monitor cable going to my 40″ LCD TV.  I Started running Window Media Center (WMC) with plugins for Boxee.  I find myself pretty much only using Boxee and for one main reason…APPs.  Boxee can be infinitely expanded with APPs and it is pretty easy to write your own apps.  Boxee also has an online Account that lets me save links to videos on my PC and they show in my queue on my TV.

APPs coming to Apple TV -App store

Maybe not in this version of the Apple Tv, but they will have to come if they want to compete.

BOXEE ‘s key features

Boxee can stream media from your computers on your network, it supports full 1080p, it can be customized to show what you want, The apps give you so much more content than the Apple TV.

Right now the Boxee software is the best of breed. Boxee will also be launching their own set top box in Nov 2010 called the Boxee Box.  It looks cool, but the form factor will be awkward for most home theater setups.

Where is this all going?

Considering these set top boxes are just a processor and an internet connection, I am pretty sure they will all be pointless in 1-2 years.  TV manufactures are already building these streaming services in to their higher end TV, It is just matter of time when they are already in all TVs and the Features we love about Boxee or Apple Tv (if you drink the Kool-Aid) are copied by the Set Builders.

I got FeedBurner up and running on DanPereda.com and you can get my feed here. To my surprise I received quite a few subscribers within the day.

I also spent some time getting ShorePerformance.com looking respectable. There is really no content there right now and I suspect that it will be pretty blank for a little while.

I am getting my focused CPA / Affiliate site up and running. I recorded a screencast on setting up the site. I spent some time getting Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools setup for the site as well. I also signed up with my first CPA company.

Unfortunately, I have ton of papers to write for my classes, so everything is on hold for a few days. Enjoy.

In my defense my blog was never meant to be anything special, it was just supposed to a collection of random crap, I guess in that sense I fully accomplished my plan. Over the year my blog has grown and been useful enough that it gives me back a little pocket money every now and then. I have now decided that I need to focus my blogging a little more and Have built a plan of sorts…. maybe plan is to big of a word. It is more of an overall guideline right now that I am still tweaking.

To call my plan just blogging is a little limited, I am really out on “My Internet Adventure”!

My Internet Adventure Outline/Plan-

Danpereda.com – this site will still stay what it is for the most part. “Random crap” that doesn’t fit anywhere else and will talk about me trying to Work my plan.

ShorePerformance.com – (This is my umbrella company Shore Performance LLC)
- This site will get a minor make over still outlining some of the many services we offer to our clients. This site will also have a blog about business.

Affiliate Sites – I have a few domains for very specific topics. I will leverage them in to the affiliate and adsense markets. I will add the sites here once they are more complete.

Software and Aps- We have a few software add-ons and Aps that we have built. We will use these apps to drive traffic to our other sites and Shore performance.

Full Functioning Sites – I have one web store up and running already, I will add another 2 service sites(not blogs) this year.

I have set a monstrous task for my self. it will be a lot of hard work, but I believe that it will bring a lot of rewards. Please Subscribe, I have to get to work….

My goal is to monetize some of my online adventures and ideas. I am breaking off some of the most successful post in to sites of their own.

Changes and updates are coming!

I am writing this on my new Vibrant. I really like this phone. The swype keyboard is very impressive after you get a handle on it. I am not world record fast yet, but I am getting faster with every word.

The T-mobile anti smudge screen protectors that I got do dull the screen a bit, but the display is still awesome.

No matter how I hold it the signal strength stays solid. I still don’t why anyone would want an iphone.

If there is anything that I could change would be to have a flash on the camera andput the usb port on the bottom of the phone

I found a nice deal on an MSI wind 100 on ebay. I also picked up a power supply and a new 9 cell battery for the bad boy.

I am surprised how fast Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop run on this low power machine. I do think another stick of ram to bring this to 2gb would be a great help.

With the 9cell battery I can pretty much do a full day (8hrs) worth of surfing on this little thing

There are also lots of infor on the web about getting Mac OSX installed. i might try that soon, but I have alot of other projects to do first.

I spent the last few nights not doing much in the way of learning ruby and rails. I was really focused on getting my Ubuntu 10.04 development environment up and running. i also took a detour to learn about GIT and github.

GIT and Gihub are not hard, but there is not that many resources that teach you what GIT is and how it work from the ground up. Most if the information out there just assume you know what it is and WHY you need to use it.

I did get rails and everything working from the Command line, but I also install Radrails and there was some glitches getting it to work. I got thru a few chapters of the book and have an outline of the DEMO shopping cart system working. Hopefully now I can pick up the pace and start working on my own ideas soon.

The recent storms in the northeast, snow and rain. I did have some water get in to the basement. I am still working on sourcing where the water is coming from, but I believe that most of the issues lay outside the basement. I have a leaking gutter and I have a large crack on the concrete patio that need to be filled.

I will update this post with my findings soon.