Ever wonder how close one is to a cell tower? With http://www.antennasearch.com/ you can find out.

I was having trouble with my provider and I wanted to know how close I was to my provider's towers. Pop in a United States based address and soon enough, the results will map out where the towers are and if there are any permits on file for new tower construction.

 As for my results, I'm in a small deadzone.

This strip made me smile; a lot! The story reminds me when I bought Magna Carta 2 for my wife as a wedding anniversary gift.

VG Cats #278 : The Perfect Gift

 

I hope everyone has had a Happy New Year and that the year has started off on a good note. I have a few new challenges this year as well as revisiting some old ones.

First, I would like to share more of what is on my mind, both technically and creatively via this blog.  I really have no idea how much traffic this blog receives, but my wife encourages me to write here since writing is not a strong point for me.  She hopes that by my writing in this blog, I can learn to express myself more clearly.

As for revisiting ongoing challenges, time management is one, organizing my home is another one; as well as furthering my career.  I finished my Bachelors of Science in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix at the end of last summer.  Now that I have a better understanding systems development, I hope I can grow my current Software Testing Engineer career into a Software Developer Engineer in Test. Ultimately, my goal is to lead a small team of testers in delivering a robust software product with comprehensive test coverage while meeting product deadlines. That is an ongoing challenge in the software industry that I would like to undertake.

Here’s to the next twelve months!

You know you should start looking into pursuing a passion when you're up at 03:00 running Microsoft Flight Simulator practicing take offs and landings.

No, I don't work for Aperture Science.  

I just felt like posting that this blog is still alive and I have stuff to talk about.  My goals this summer range from geeky to mundane.  I plan on writing about the more geeky topics; the mundane ones are, mundane.

The short list of projects this summer include restoring a Neo-Geo arcade cabinent, a Star Wars pinball machine, and writing about the planning that I have doing for the home network.  In addition, I want to write about my experiences with bringing a lightweight photo gallery online for this site.  I am moving away from having the photos and pictures I have embedded in this blog and giving them a separate gallery for them to live in.  I decided to use the Gallery2 engine and I will write later how I came about to using that engine from the many others out there.

In addition, if I was not busy enough, I am going to write up entries about programming topics.  I need  to refresh my programming skills and I figured writing up lessons and explaining the topics will help me solidify my understanding.

This will be a very busy summer.

Happy New Year Everyone! 

Let's see if I can make a better effort to keep this blog updated!

Attention Please! recounts the journey of a young tomboy, MISAKI Youko (played by UETO Aya), who strives to be a Cabin Attendant for Japan AirLines (JAL). Admittedly, I did not know if I could watch the show because the first episode was so over the top.  I had to pause the program half way and come back to it after a while.  I am glad that I did come back and watch the rest of the eleven part series.

I particularly enjoyed watching this drama because of the flying aspect.  I could identify with one of the characters' love of flying.  This will sound corny, but the show has motivated me to pursue a dream of mine - to become a private pilot.  This goal will take me a couple of years to achieve, but I really want to fly. 

As for the rest of the show, I found it to be endearing and Tarra enjoyed looking at the various JAL Cabin Attendant uniforms from JAL's past during the closing credits.  Here is a wiki page summarizing the show http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Attention_Please.  As for finding the show, one can find the show on CrunchyRoll or via BitTorrent.

 

Yay!  I have a short break from school.  I start up again next Tuesday, but I could use the break.  I was becoming a little singed on the edges from going non-stop with school for the past two years.

This little reprieve should allow me to catch up on side projects and sleep!

So I've finally decided to start a new blog about my photography exploits and other adventures I choose to share. But I am discovering that what I want is not always what is available on the web for a decent price (read: free ).

I currently have Community Server running at the root level of this domain (http://www.nekomitech.net), but I find that it looks clunky and it makes a huge hit on my meager server resources.  So I am trying out BlogEngine and I am pretty happy with its performance and the clean look of the available themes.  But there are always more features that I would like.

For instance, I like photography.  I would like to share the photos with my friends and others who are interested.  As an aside, I hope the photos look okay.  I decided to use the Gallery control from Paul Tumelty.  That User Control had the features that I wanted and it is simple enought to use.  I would have love to have EXIF support like in the PhotoHandler control, but I will either have to figure that out on my own or wait for BlogEngine PhotoGallery Subsytem to be available.  Another issue is that I have Lightbox enabled here but apparently Lightbox does not render in FireFox.  So I guess I'm writing my own BlogEngine Extension to support SlimBox, a LightBox clone built on the MooTools SDK.  Apparently, SlimBox has more browser support.

Ugh, working on this site reminds me of my day job.  I resolve one issue only to find others that need attention. 

C'est la Vie.