i had the opportunity to help out as track meet officials last night at Vidinha stadium in Lihue. all 3 kauai high schools (Waimea, Kauai HS, Kapaa) were in attendance and many of the races came down to a photo finish. next meet we are going to try and figure out how to pre-load the events and display the results instantly. but considering the equipment was brand new i think we did a pretty good job getting the finish camera to work!

4/14/2006 2:28:35 PM (Hawaiian Standard Time, UTC-10:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

i learned the hard way not to leave your desktop computer on the lanai.  running a media center is a 24/7 operation and the sunshine in the afternoons fried 2 motherboards, 2 processors, and a graphics card.  my next generation MCE has extra fans and i'm designing it for maximum air flow.  the case is specially designed for a media center so i'm hoping to aviod another meltdown.  too bad because my last ASUS board kicked some serious ass! 

4/13/2006 7:47:22 AM (Hawaiian Standard Time, UTC-10:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

there is only one final speedbump on my way to completing my media center box.  i ordered 2 SATA drives so that i could run them in RAID 0 for increased performance due to the nature of the media center (constant writing/accessing to the drive).  the only problem is that i only had one SATA cable in my stash.  luckily i found a guy who has one and is willing to part with it (Steve Low).  so by this weekend i should have it in production.  BOOYA!!!!!

4/12/2006 3:42:07 PM (Hawaiian Standard Time, UTC-10:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

after much procrastination i finally took the time to sit down and crank out the online forum for kauai pc.  now i will have the much needed outlet for my techno babel and geek speak causemy wife can handle it anymore and angus (the cat) is indifferent.

4/10/2006 2:44:24 PM (Hawaiian Standard Time, UTC-10:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

This is the first entry on the kauai pc online forum!!!  I will undoubtedly be testing and tweaking the different features so stay tuned.  Lot's more to come...

3/3/2006 8:51:56 PM (Hawaiian Standard Time, UTC-10:00)    Comments [0] Trackback