travis' brain dump

I think that’s the phrase that best describes the last week or so of life…

I’ve tried to start to write a blog four or five times with no success. I keep getting interrupted or something else comes up. Like I said, it’s been busy juggling between constant stuff rolling in at work and the home life. At least I’ve fit in some time for boarding. 🙂

Went up with my dad (oh yeah, did I mention the parents are in town?) to Breck last week which was a lot of fun. Not so much for him though when a boarder collided with him. I told him that’s what he got for wearing skis this time up, hehe.  At least he got in a few good runs before getting blasted. 🙂 We’re going up again tomorrow so we’ll see if he can successfully dodge the bullet this time… ooo that reminds me… I need to wax my board tonight.

Life otherwise has been pretty good. It’s business as usual around the house mostly… Oh, I did exchange emails with my friend Randy the other day… it’s been a while since I’ve heard from him so I was beginning to wonder what was going on out in Iraq with him. It’s good to here he and Sarah are well and to see some pictures. Come to think of it, I wonder how Troy is… I’ve got a few friends over there to worry about. Please remember our soldiers in those prayers folks…

Well, my time is short, so I must be getting back to work. This was a nice little break from the buzzing about here.

Sorry if anyone who subscribes saw a reminder for my last post twice… playing with some new options and such so it tossed out a couple on the previous post. 🙂

Just finished a round of upgrades (some more to follow tomorrow) on the wordpress software and some of the plugins… pretty cool stuff coming down the pipeline.

In other news… I figured out some round-about ways of getting Nimbus MySan working on my Small Business Server. It requires a good chunk of a few hours but it’s working quite well. 🙂 (this info for all those following the whole xbox360 media center server 2003 stuff). It actually wasn’t too bad.

1. Uninstall SP2 (ignoring all the warnings *eeek*)
2. Install SP1
3. Ensure you’ve got .NET 2.0 installed
4. Install MySAN
5. Reinstall SP2
6. Reinstall all the updates hanging out there (including the .NET service packs)
7. Run MySAN and setup your drives. (make sure to give your VISTA machine exclusive rights to the drive)

The only catch is it will need for format the partition you’re intending to use, so you’ll need to backup your data first… I luckily had a drive big enough to hold all the data temporarily while I did this little manuever and now it’s working quite well… I’m currently in the middle of copying some 39,000 files over to the ipSAN drive but it’s working quite nicely without a hiccup and the stuff that has copied over already shows up in the population in media connector and in media center. 🙂

I might post up some screen shots tomorrow or something if I can find some time. I’ve been trying to get all the software for the blogsites updated, new pictures uploaded, two new sites created and manage getting my household duties completed as well. Lot’s of fun. Anyway… I’m getting the look from Amanda… it’s time for bed. 🙂