The family (sister and brother) stopped up this weekend… It was relaxing. Had some good food and fun.
Rehoboth Beach Recap
Posted by Jake Good
on Jul 23, 07
So as promised, here’s a quick recap of my Rehoboth Beach vacation…
The beaches were good… crowded and rocky and cold, but enjoyable once you found some good spots…
The food was fantastic, here’s a picture of some hot fat crabs (Maryland Blue Claw Crabs)
Dewey Beach was quite the crazy party town… if you guys hit up the Delaware beaches, Dewey beach is where it’s at!
Other than that, golf, relaxation, good food, and sun pretty much summed up my entire vacation…
- Hubcap, Luigi, Son of Marv, and Wobbles…
I took over NYC
Posted by Jake Good
on Jul 14, 07
So as you saw in the last post… I took residence in NYC for one night…
The skinny? I saw Wall St., WTC site, and Times Square…
Then met up with my boy blameMike and we had some dinner (read: REAL ramen) at:
Then hit up the night and drank our asses off… yeah it was nuts.
Check out my flickr account for more pictures…
Jake Invades NYC - Hotel Room Preview
Posted by Jake Good
on Jul 13, 07
Location: Club Quarters… Manhattan… NYC!
Much Needed Vacation
Posted by Jake Good
on Jul 12, 07
On Friday I’ll be starting a much needed vacation…
Tomorrow I’ll be hitting up NYC with my boy Mike and some peeps…
Then hop over to Rehoboth Beach with Greg, Mike, and Tom… for a week.
I’ll try to post some pictures as I go along, but no promises! :)
Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer
Posted by Jake Good
on Jul 12, 07
Download the music here… by who else but Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori
Funny side note: The original Halo 3 Trailer, seen here, featured “Finish the Fight” by Martin and Michael was downloadable via iTunes and NOT the Zune Marketplace… funny… That trailer gave me goosebumps… and the documentary on XBLM was sweet!
New Host!
Posted by Jake Good
on Jul 11, 07
So if you’ve noticed lately… my blog has been up and down the last few days. Well… I’ve finally done it.
I’ve left the cramped servers of DreamHost and moved onto greener ground…
I’ve been contemplating the move for a few weeks as my hosting contract was up and I needed to decide what to do. My requirements for a new host were pretty simple. Be cheap, be fast, give me some good stuff, and let me host Rails applications.
To my suprise, I found a VPS solution that was actually cheap! SliceHost… came recommended from TopFunky. I now have my own slice in the virtual computing sky!
What slice did I buy? 256 Slice.
- 256 MB of RAM
- 10 GB HD Space
- 100 GB Transfer
All for $20 a month… not bad at all!
My current blog setup is as follows: Apache 2.2.4 + modproxy + all of the goodies (gzip compression, etc.) + Mongrel (mongrelcluster)… and if you notice, it’s going a hell-uv-a lot faster!
So now you might ask… what about my other domains and email on Dreamhost… what did you do? Well… I moved my email addresses (jake@whoisjake.com and jake@developstuff.com) over to Google Apps following Scott’s wonderful article. It’s sweet… I basically get 2GB of email using Gmail interface for my domains… and I still control the DNS to my domains to do what I want with the websites! NICE! All for FREE!
Wow… That’s quite a mouthful… but yeah, thanks for the patience and hopefully I’ll get back to writing more!
p.s. If you sign up for hosting from Slicehost… tell them that Jake sent you (enter in jake@developstuff.com as a referreal)
XM Radio Review
Posted by Jake Good
on Jul 09, 07
I’ve been playing with XM Radio since I bought my new car in March and have been pleased… Why did I get it? I listen to my iPod at work a lot… and when I’m riding in the car, I want to listen to something different that’s not on my iPod… and the radio is full of crappy ads. Ick!
There are several channels that peak my interest: The Heat, The City, BPM… etc. and I particularly like the clarity of the sound that comes down through the satellites.
I think another interesting aspect of XM is that they broadcast online as well… with XM Radio ONLINE I can tune into any of the same channels that I enjoy in my car.
The best part about online is that you can see what songs are playing on all of the channels through AJAXy goodness… So now I can pick and choose which channels to listen to just by what song is playing…
Here’s a screenie of the online tool:
Here’s the review…
Pros:
- Clear sound… no buffering or any static at all.
- Works anywhere I go… except when my car is in my garage ;)
- I can listen online at work for free with my subscription.
Cons:
- Doesn’t work in my garage, but who cares.
- Lots of song overlap in the Hip-Hop / Urban section.
- It costs money. $12.95 a month (I got a free 3 month trial + 1 free month cause I paid for a year in advance).