RobbieTheGeek's blog

I can officially announce that my first professional website is online. www.jonhoche.com is the address to my buddy Jon's site, I am excited to say that I have created a site that he really appears to like. I will tell you that this was/is the greatest learning experience in my entire business career. I can say emphatically that web design/developer is the career I am now pursuing. It may take me time to get there and make a living doing website work but hang in there I will get there.

The news is that I have got a preliminary website up and running for my buddy. There is a fully created and functional website hiding below the Coming Soon page I have put up. I have spent a lot of time working on this website and I am not sure it is what I want for him LOL. The slick, cool factor website that I have developed for him may not be functional enough for an actors resume website.

This is a very hectic and fun-ish weekend for me and mine. We are celebrating one of our own completing a year long Certificate program last night at her graduation ceremony. Tonight we are going to head to a karaoke bar to continue that celebrating after going to see the latest musical at my wife's college. So good stuff but hectic by this geeks' standards, but then the real fun begins. Tomorrow, a small group of friends are going out to Nassau Coliseum to see the a WWE house show, and see Tazz dust off the ring gear for one more match.

How many side projects can one geek do?

At my day job today I was digging around Microsoft's site looking for information about a Citrix support issue. As an organization we have an application that is written and supported in-house. One of the reporting consoles that gives many reports and allows managers to printout and save reports. This console needs to be migrated to our central Citrix farm. Here is the issue; when the users try to save the reports they are seeing the servers hard drives along with their own. This is not only confusion to users but scary users shouldn't save anything on your servers.

Welcome back folks, sorry for the lapse in blogs this last few days. I was a little burnt out from the technology tsunami from CES & MacWorld. Just because I wasn't posting doesn't mean I haven't been soaking up all I can get my eyes on. I have taken a few entry level and higher HTML classes through my job. These were very low-end but worth it to resurface all that old knowledge I have from doing website design and creation years ago.

Ok after all the MacWorld news I find it hard to get back to the CES news LOL.There were a few things (technologies) that

After yesterday's blog posting I have done nothing but talk about it with friends and family. All of these poor folks in my life are tired of hearing about the tech d`jour. But thank goodness for my blog and you folks for coming by and reading my rants.I was so excited about the keynote yesterday that I watched the crappy stream available on Apple's website.

Enter Steve Jobs about 9 mins after 9am PST and straight into the techno-goodness he is known for. The Expo keynote gets underway with changes to the iLife suite (iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, iMovie, and the new iWeb). Lots of tweaks to the existing apps including the addition of Podcast suite to GarageBand (this is a nice addition to GarageBand and great as proof of Apple's acknowledging the Podcaster's need).

I have been reading, listening, & watching everything I can get my chubby little hands on CES related. First and foremost I have to say that a fantasitic site that was updated constantly was Engadget. Specifically, the keynote live blogging for all the keynotes was great, thanks so much for all your dilegence. Reading and reporting the hundreds of duplicate stories on digg was a fun past-time all week long.