Testing out this Blogger stuff to see how well it works.

I have been looking for a good place to write my thoughts in blog format that was apart from any of the other projects that I have had on the web recently and also apart from my Facebook account. As we all know, there are eyes and ears everywhere, and I would like to have something wholly separate from my usual public persona. I tried the Windows Live Spaces thing, and the platform is way too limited. Not even stats are available without going with a 3rd party. could be good, but very hamstrung right now.
There are a number of awesome plugins for live writer that can be found here. I plan to use then as I go along documenting my thoughts.
I am writing this from the new computer that I put together this last week. It replaces an old rig that I put together about 6 years ago. It’s rather embarrassing working the tech industry and have such an old PC for home use. I usually use my work laptop most of the time, so I didn’t really miss it. I figured the time was right and the deals so good on Newegg I would bite off on it.


So far, other than me almost braking it with a BIOS upgrade, it really screams. I still have a few things that I want to get for it, and I am waiting for another influx of money to finish the build.

I’m sure there will be more storage down the line, but I am hoping to have a dedicated NAS device to do this with rather than using SugarSync for replicated web storage, but for $4.99 a month you can’t beat it. This is in addition to Mozy for backing up 120GB of info off the old PC that is more or less a NAS device. It would be great to have a unified platform that didn’t have to be a PC to house and share all this stuff. Iomega make this device, but it’s still a little pricy for my taste. There may be a large data migration and consolidation project and FreeNAS in my future. There won’t be RAID protection, but it would be a little more useful.
That’s it for now. I have a long drive to think about things tomorrow….

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