ZettaGeek

Leaving The Blogosphere!

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:25:00 +0000

JK!

OK, OK, enough of the jokes. I am moving from my blog here at Blogger, to a much more polished (and better) blog at Wordpress.com. Now, before I give you the new URL, I have a few things to say.

The reason I am moving is simple. I am joining my family in a boycott of all things Google. Youtube, Blogger, Gmail, Google Talk, and of course, Google Search. Why? Because Google is in support of gay marriage. If you don't believe me click here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-position-on-californias-no-on-8.html

If you would like to join the boycott, click here:
http://shameongoogle.wordpress.com/consider-signing/

Don't worry, there are plenty of alternatives to Google Services out there, like Yahoo! or Live.

I hope to see you at my new blog:

http://zettageekblog.wordpress.com/

I hope to see you there!
~ZettaGeek

Backups & Box.Net

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:27:00 +0000

Today, I decided to backup the important data on my hard drive. After losing so much data when my second one broke, I figured it might be a good idea to start keeping backups of my data.

Now to make backups, you have to have a place to put backups... I did not really want to trust another old hard drive, or a thumb drive or anything like a CD or DVD that could break. Whats the answer? Online storage space. Now a quick Google search for "Free Online Storage Space" comes up with literally, millions of results. Most of which, aren't even free :-D.

After searching for a while, I found Box.Net. I must say, for free online storage space, this is a pretty nice service. Now since its free, you are most likely assuming it has its limitations. It does. Things like, you can only upload files that are under 10 MB. Or other problems, like the fact that you only have 1 GB of storage.

So anyway, I decided to put the service to the test. First, I zipped all my ZettaGeek.net related files, About 160 MB's in files, into a split zip file, each part of the zip file was 9 MB. Then I uploaded the parts of the Zip file to Box.Net.

It took about 10 minutes to upload everything, but overall I was quite impressed. So now, I just need to figure out what to do with the other 800 MB's.

~ZettaGeek

At The Art Show

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:01:00 +0000

This last weekend, I went to an art show with my Sister and Grandmother. My sister, Courtney, wrote a journal for the day and took pictures as well. Enjoy!

"On Friday afternoon, Joshua and I left to spend the night at my Grandmother's, to prepare for an art show the very next day.

We left our home, and ran a few errands to pick up some last minute items, then we went for dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant:

These are some really neat metal statues outside the restaurant:

Here is Joshua standing beside one of them:

A view from my seat:

Their iced tea is the best!!

After a yummy faijita and some awesome corn chips with hot cheese sauce

it was time to go back to the interstate to go on to her home.

We passed the Birmingham International Airport:

Finally, we arrived at her house. After unpacking everything, we went to bed.

But, the morning started early, and we were all up by 4:30.

We loaded back up the car:

And went on our way.

We stopped for a breakfast sandwich:

and headed to Odenville.

We arrived just in time to set up!

Here is Joshua setting up our tent:

The tent all set up:

Once we set everything up, we looked around the park that the art show was at. Here are some various pictures:

This is the first time that I have ever seen a cattail!

What?!?!?

It was soon time for lunch.

Joshua enjoying some bottled water:

Some of our crafts for the show:

Do you remember the quilts? :)

Later on, we just enjoyed the afternoon as people walked through.

Joshua catching a quick read:

At 4:00, it was time to pack up.

Watch this! We can pack it up in 3 easy steps:

1!

2!

3!

See! It was easy! ;)

Time to go home.

We took a slightly different route, and saw many cows:

Back on the interstate:

This is what the sky looked like when we were almost home:

It was a fun day. Thanks for joining me!"

~ZettaGeek

A Question..

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:13:00 +0000

Alright, I have a question for you, my readers. As you may already know I have two hard drives in my computer. One is a 30.00 GB hard drive, and the other is a 40 GB. About a month ago I noticed I could not boot to Ubuntu. So I boot to windows, and notice it no longer sees my 40.00 GB hard drive. Whats odd though, is it sees it in the BIOS.

My system specs are:

AMD Sempron 1.6 GHZ
Hard drive (C:) 30.00 GB
Hard drive (D:) 40.00 GB
CD drive (E:)
CD drive (F:)
512 MB Ram
nVidea GeForce 2 TI
Belkin WIRELESS G Internal Internet Card

Any help would be awesome.

~ZettaGeek

Rain

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:24:00 +0000

Well it looks like its going to rain. Here are some photos I took before I decided it might not be safe to be outside while its thundering:

What a nice way to end the week. On a side note, I have updated my Blogroll to include the Willi Family Blog, and changed the old link that went to Red Moose 3D and updated it to Matt's new blog Isaiah 40:28-31. Be sure to check them out.

~ZettaGeek

New Firefox Skin

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:32:00 +0000

I have decided to skin my web browser Firefox. Now this is the skin for windows. My Firefox on Linux is solid black. Its been like that since I installed Ubuntu Studio.

Here is a picture of my Windows Firefox:

I am really liking the new Firefox 3. Although, I still am having a lot of issues with the amount of RAM this thing uses. As of right now, with only one tab open its using 88 Megs of ram, compared to Internet explorer or Opera which take between 18 and 50 megs of ram.

As other news I have finished another tutorial for my website. It won't be long and I will upload the new website.

~ZettaGeek

Java Programming

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:00 +0000

Well today I took a giant leap from my normal computer programming. Instead of programming HTML, ASP and Visual Basic, I have decided to start learning more of the advanced programming languages. Three days ago I started PHP, Yesterday I started C/C++, and today I have start Java.

Here is my first Java application:

I have circled two things, the first is where I compiled the program: (javac HelloWorldApp.java), and the second thing I circled is where I ran the program with the Java virtual machine. (java HelloWorldApp).

Now in time, I will learn to do this same thing in Linux, but for now Windows 2000 was my best option. :-)

~ZettaGeek

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:20:00 +0000

Today is my brother Matthews Birthday.

So.....

Happy Birthday!!!!

~ZettaGeek

ZettaGeek.net Getting Makeover

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:47:00 +0000

Well, I am happy to report that a total overhaul of the current ZettaGeek.net website is underway. I will blog when the changes are complete. This will include a new forum, :-).

Check back as the day goes on for updates at
ZettaGeek.net

Thanks,
~ZettaGeek

End Of Week

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:42:00 +0000

Well it looks as though the week is over. I would say as my first week of really actively blogging, this has been pretty good.

My sister Courtney and I were able to finish straightening the left half of the storage space. As the weekend begins, (most likely tomorrow) Dad, Mom, Courtney, and I will go through some of the remaining stuff in the storage space, so we can mark that as a done job :-D.

While we were straightening the storage space, Mom and the other children were going through the extra room we have, this way construction can begin to fix it up and make it a bedroom.

As for now, I am off to the shower. Most likely a cold shower from working in the good old Alabama heat.

~ZettaGeek

Job List

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:10:00 +0000

Well it looks as though are day has filled up. We have quite a list of things we are going to be working on today, here is what we will be doing:

1. School

2. Cleaning out a spare room, and preparing to make it another bedroom

3. Cleaning out the left side of our storage space

4. Picking up around the house, and cleaning the yard

5. Working on some various web tasks

And other things, but I can't remember what they are at the moment.

Well, I am off to get to work on the list. On a side note my Mom, is having a migraine headache, so please pray for her.

~ZettaGeek

Heritage Night Part 3

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:23:00 +0000

Greetings,

Last night went pretty well, I was able to make some major progress on the website. Here is a screenshot of what its looking like:

Its some major progress as compared to what I started with. I will post a before shot a little later today, so you can see the progress.

~ZettaGeek

Heritage Night Part 2

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:34:00 +0000

Let the coding begin!

~ZettaGeek

Heritage Night.

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:47:00 +0000

Tonight is Heritage Night in our home. Every Thursday our family spends the night working on projects like: Family Videos, Scrapbooks, Our Family Website, Sewing Projects, and other things.

Well tonight I am going to be working on our family website: Foundations Of Faith. Its a work in progress, since I am completely re-doing the entire website. Later tonight, maybe tomorrow, I will post before and after screenshots, so you can see the progress.

Wish me luck,
~ZettaGeek

Blender Photo

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:52:00 +0000

This is one of my more recent Blender pictures. (Please don't laugh LOL)

I still need to texture the walls. add a window, and maybe some other dressings. But hey, its a start right?

~ZettaGeek

Radio Productions.

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:20:00 +0000

Check out some of these photos taken by my sister Courtney, of us setting up the family audio mixer, to record some sound clips:

This next photo, was one taken of my little brother Jonathan, "helping" adjust the settings on our audio mixer :-)

As the day continues, we will be recording a few more clips to add to our Internet radio station. In about a week or so I will post directions to connect to this station so you my readers, can tune in and listen to our station.

As for our current house affairs, things are going pretty well. We have put sheets over the windows to cool the place off. Its supposed to reach about 91 degrees here. :P. Well, we will hope for the best. My Mom, has also finished preparing her About.com Needlepoint Newsletter to go out tonight. We have also gotten some school done, and began to straighten the house up and prepare for Dad coming home from work later this afternoon.

Well, I am back off to it :)
~ZettaGeek

Firefox VS IE

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:41:00 +0000

While reading the differences between Internet Explorer and FireFox, I found this:

Here is a link worth visiting, it explains the pros and cons of FireFox.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-firefox.htm

What do you think? Feel free to let me know what you think by emailing me, or leaving a comment here.

Well, I think I am out of time for now. I will try to post again later today :-).

~ZettaGeek

Reason #4587 To Use Linux

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:06:00 +0000

Greetings,

Last night, my Dad called Microsoft to activate the Windows XP on the family computer. After about two hours and eighteen minutes, he finally got IT activated. Now over the course of the two hours he got hung up on once, and transferred a few times. Sadly, Microsoft is phasing out support for Windows XP, so now most Windows users will be stuck with Vista. UGH!!

Among other things, I have converted my regular Ubuntu system to Ubuntu Studio. Its basically the same Ubuntu core, but with a slick new look, and pre-loaded software designed for the media enthusiast/Media Professional.

As always, I have been continuing to write tutorials for my website ZettaGeek.net. Hopefully, I will complete the HTML section soon :-D .

I have also been working on my Internet radio station LAMFAM Media Radio. I will share more about this soon.

Well that's all for now,
~ZettaGeek

Tutorials Update

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:12:00 +0000

I am happy to say that the HTML Images tutorial on ZettaGeek.net is now finished. You can see this tutorial here:

http://www.zettageek.net/images.html

Tomorrow I will write the HTML backgrounds tutorial.

~ZettaGeek

HTML

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:37:00 +0000

Greetings,

Today, I have been busy updating my website ZettaGeek.net. It is intended to be a place where beginning programmers can find help for computer languages such as HTML. If all goes well it should be full of HTML tutorials before the end of the month.

You can find the HTML tutorials here:
http://www.southtek.com/ZettaGeek/html.html

In the mean time I have continued work on my Blender projects, and updating the blog that my sister Courtney and I have been team blogging, LamFamMedia.

I am also busy working on a new banner to replace the current one on this blog, it really needs it :-)

Today's Scripture

Deuteronomy 5:16

"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you."

Thanks for visiting,
~ZettaGeek

My First Post!

zettadude@gmail.com (ZettaGeek) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:59:00 +0000

Welcome to my Blog!

Here I will keep my daily web log of things that I have been doing lately, Everything from Blender 3D to things going on around our house.

Thanks for visiting and check daily for new posts!

~ZettaGeek