An update on me, and testing Windows Live Writer

Posted by Colin on October 29th, 2008 under Career, Job Hunt, Technology  •  Comments

I’m writing this in Windows Live Writer. Seems kinda cool. Anyway, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here, mostly because I’ve been really busy with other things. Primarily, I started a new job at the end of September. A much needed change after pretty much 8 Months of unemployment, living off of odd jobs and staying at my parent’s house.

A new job you say? That’s right, I joined the Workstation Management Team at SallieMae. My official position is Sales Support Analyst. This means I support the remote sales people that work from home throughout the country. I also have a few floors in our Fisher, IN office that I support. So far I’m loving the job, and enjoy the team that I’m working with. It’s certainly keeping me busy.

Other than that I’ve been pretty much occupying my time with friends, church, and WoW. Last night I started the process of upgrading my computer. First parts were a Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition, Gigabyte 790GX Motherboard and 4GB of Corsair XMS2 Memory. I’m pretty happy with the performance so far. I haven’t done a lot with it yet as I’ve been installing software.

Updates

Posted by FrakIN Media on October 14th, 2008 under FrakIN Media  •  Comments

Hey everyone.  It has been a month since our last pod-cast and I thought I would give you a quick update on what is going on.  We have all been really busy over the last few weeks.  Brooks, Christian and I have been swamped with school and Colin recently started a new job so we have had little time.  Also we are thinking about changing the format of the show doing more a person “what the frak” segment each week and thats it.  We will keep you posted.

Take care guys and thanks for listening,

Zach

Episode 18 - Wrath of the Spores

Posted by FrakIN Media on September 10th, 2008 under FrakIN Media  •  Comments

TV is back folks! We discuss the new shows we’re pumped for and the ones we love that are returning. Spore has come out this week and Christian gives his impressions of the game. Also, Zach had the chance to get in on the Wrath of the Lich King beta, and he lets us in on the first few levels of the Death Knight class. All that and more!

TV
Spore Gets Two Documentaries
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1801
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1802

TV is Back!!
New Shows: http://tinyurl.com/frakin1803
Returning Shows: http://tinyurl.com/frakin1804

MOVIES
Veronica Mars Closer to a Movie Deal
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1805

GAMES
Resident Evil 5 to get “Gears” Control Scheme
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1806

Spore - It’s Finally Here and What it Means for New Media
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1807

Wrath of the Lich King Beta
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1808

Episode 17 - Terrible Ideas

Posted by FrakIN Media on September 8th, 2008 under FrakIN Media  •  Comments

A painfully slow two-week period for news in TV, movies, and games, but we still manage to find a few things to talk about. Unfortunately, nearly everything we found was about people or companies throwing around terrible ideas and making decisions that don’t benefit us as consumers. Thankfully XBox Live Arcade brought us a ray of light.

TV
Stargate Atlantis gets end date, Stargate Universe gets Green Light
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1705
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1706

Fishburne Joins CSI
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1708

WB Launches Hulu Competitor
http://thewb.com

Movies
New Fast and Furious Movie - Original Cast is Back
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1701

Fox Sues Warner Bros. over Watchmen
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1710

Movie About Facebook Founders On the Way?
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38100

Cher as the next Catwoman?
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1707

Games
Bionic Commando: Rearmed - XBL Gets Another Good One
http://tinyurl.com/42q9u7

Castle Crashers - So Much XBL, So Little Time
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1711

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo thoughts (On PS3 and 360)
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1703

Mortal Kombat v. DC Universe Game. Totally Ridiculous?
http://tinyurl.com/frakin1702

Google Gears

Posted by Colin on August 27th, 2008 under Google Gears, Tubes, WordPress Tags: , ,  •  Comments

I love that Wordpress 2.6 and above supports Google Gears. For those that haven’t noticed, there’s a “Turbo” option up in the right hand corner of your Dashboard now. If you have Google Gears installed, it will cache large portions of the back end of the site locally on your machine. Pretty sure this requires Firefox to work, but I haven’t tried it in any other browsers yet.

Also, I find it really amusing when programs make fun of stupid things that prominent people have said. Let’s just say the Google Gears team has a sense of humor.

Oh Ted Stevens.

Oh Ted Stevens.

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