Time for us to take on the world of social networking and get some more PR.

Become A Fan

This is a gallery of the photos I was able to take during a few day light hours I was fortunate enough to have over my business trip to Dublin, Ireland.  More explanation surrounding the trip and the specific sites in the pictures is still to come.  Overview of pictures includes:

• The Temple Bar
• Irish Museum Of Modern Art
• Hilton Hotel Kilmainham
• Kilmainham Goal Museum
• Dublin Castle
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral
• Christ Church Cathedral
• Guinness Storehouse

Click on the individual thumbnails for a direct link to that photo page, then click on the image itself for a larger view.

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Here is the outcome of the 2009 Halloween Pumpkin Carving.  Mine is the skull, Kaileigh’s is the monster looking creature, and Josh’s is the scarecrow.

So my design finger was itching this afternoon so I sat down for a few hours and compiled a new background for the theme that we were using to give the site an updated personality.  I’d like to get everyone’s opinions on it so just comment on this post and I’ll make the modifications as I have time.

I do plan on slowly tweaking the rest of the aspects on the site (ie: font type, font size, colors, logos, footer, etc…).  Right now I’d like to just concentrate on the background.

Here was my source of Inspiration.

Other areas of updates:

• Favicon
• Comments
• Footer
• Header
• Sidebar

Areas of comments / concerns:

• Background not dark enough – I have modified this to be darker, please let me know what you think of the new color and if it makes the text on the first post any easier to read.

Thanks in advance for the comments.

Ok, seriously… I’ve heard some kick ass things about solid state drives and their speeds, but these guys did something unthinkable.  They built a RAID of 24 256 GB SSD Hard Drives.  The link has a video that goes through the build of the computer and what it can do.

High level:

• Open all Microsoft applications in .5 seconds (Yes, that’s 1/2 of a second)
• Open 53 base start menu Windows applications in 18 seconds
• Defrag the entire machine in 3 seconds
• Transfer data over 2 GB per second
• Recycle 700 files totaling 5.6 GB in the blink of an eye
• Copy a 700 MB DVD rip from one location to another faster than the DVD can drop from a 2 story window (. 8 seconds)

Watch and be amazed

Solid State Deliciousness

I was recently in San Francisco for business and was able to get away for a while to go site seeing.  Unfortunately, the day we went, it rained literally all day long, and to make matters worse, my camera finally died on me.  These are what I was able to capture.

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If this is any type of preview for what tech toys will be like in the future, I think ourselves and generations to come will be just fine when it comes to alternative learning tools.

Pretty amazing stuff, pay careful attention to the last example he performs

Siftables

The photos speak for themselves..

Ferrari Braking Action

So after almost a year of having Vast up and running, the email registration system has been an on again off again debacle.  After some final configurations with my good friends at GoDaddy, the tubes are now unclogged. (For those of you less technical, that means that the emails are working).  So move that cursor on over to the right and click Register.  We’d love to hear from you!

Peace, love, and mad props Al Gore for giving up the tubes that power the world

Jerod

Hey everyone!

I know I haven’t posted much over the last few months and that is no one’s fault but my own, however I plan to change that trend.  I have taken some time to jaunt down some ideas and goals that I have in mind for the site and would like to see implemented in the year 2009.  These are high level with a possiblity to be updated and checked off as the year progresses.  Please comment or add suggestions as you see fit.

1.   First and foremost will be getting an Exchange server up and running so the WordPress email system works from beginning to end and everywhere in between.

2.   At least one new layout change to keep the site fresh and new.

3.   A place for all administrators and authors to go for tutorials and information that they need to successfully navigate the site and feel comfortable enough to put their pencils to the site.

4.   Work on the integration of BBpress (Forum) into the site some more and get it all set up to where we have some valuable topics to comment and discuss on.

5.   Continue to stay current on all plug-ins and WordPress releases so our administrators and authors are always working with the latest and greatest tools.

6.   This is probably my biggest goal of all, and will deem the most difficult.  Since I installed the first version of WordPress and created Vast Reality, I have either used default themes (in the beginning) or other good looking themes that I have since then modified with updated backgrounds, borders, photos, icons, and text to my liking (like the one now).  The goal for 2009 is to build my own WordPress theme entirely from scratch and implement it so I can get feedback.  This will be a great learning experience for myself and a true test of my XHTML and CSS skills.

Like I said above, please comment or throw out new suggestions you would like to see on the site, I have a great desire to really start making this a more interactive environment.   Thanks again for everyone continuing to contribute their time and talents to Vast Reality.  Keep up the great work.