Free FTP Client - FireFTP
If you are looking for a great FTP client, I’ve been using FireFTP which is a plugin to Mozilla’s FireFox browser. I had spent the last few months looking for a FTP client that would work with the Mac like I want it to. I had been using CuteFTP with my previous windows machine, but now that I’ve switched to OSX I wasn’t so sure. The tab feature is nice on FireFTP as it provides you a status as you browse other website.
Fast and easy, just like I like it (… not to mention FREE!).
It’s Mike: 1-Year Anniversary
Well, exactly 1 year ago today I started writing and blogging on my own server! I’ve written 167 articles during that time frame and can say that I’ve really enjoyed keeping up with my blog. It initially started out to simply write about life, technology, and work, but grew to so much more. It ended up being more about articles on items that I’m passionate about (excluding work for obvious reasons) such as Technology, Internet, Athletics, as well as a lot about my family, pictures, and videos. So I guess I would classify my blog as more of a multimedia type experience given the videos, content, and pictures that I have published. I even had fun with some photoshop to spice things up a bit (sorry Ella, I love you though!)
I’m also amazed at all the folks that visit my site as well. While I obviously don’t get many comments (55 to date), I am often told by friends, family members, and colleagues that they visit my blog frequently. So many thanks to all of you that read it and have a glimpse of the different aspects of my life and family. We are truly blessed by it all and love sharing in our experiences.
To my Ella - You are truly a blessing in my life. Watching you grow over the past 14 months has been amazing. Words cannot express the joy that I have when I am around you and when you smile, talk, garble, yack, clap, hug, kiss, slap, and gaze at me. You are an inspiration to your Mother and I and we will always love you, teach you, care for you, be an example of God’s word to you, pray for you, and provide you the best life we are physically able to provide. You love it when I sing to you, play with you, walk and talk with you, kiss and hug on you, and read to you. Your smile, your cute little curls, and your big-blue eyes will always be forever burned in my mind.
To my Wife, Jennifer - Since the day that I met you I have loved you. You constantly amaze me with your patience, gratitude, warmth, desire for Christ, and being the best Mommy in the world. I truly could not succeed at life without you and know with out a doubt that you are in fact my soul mate. Your encouragement and voice are always on my mind, bringing peace to me daily. It’s been a joy and blessing to be married to you for 5 years, 6 months! You are my best friend, my companion, my love, by sweetheart, inspiration, and motivation in Christ. Words can’t begin to express my thanks and all I know to say is “Thank you for loving me”.
One of the Best Home Theater Builds
Go through all the galleries, pretty impressive.
Hello New Brand; Bye NetFire
Hi Friends. It’s been a while and I’ve been super slammed with work and all. One of the highlights that I’ve been working on for the past 9 months or so is a huge launch at Speakeasy. As most of you know, the division that I manage is all services that are located in our datacenters. That brand at the moment has been channeled through NetFire, but as of 15 November we are now known as Speakeasy Managed Services. It’s such a huge milestone for us as Speakeasy really transitions itself from not just being a server provider, but really a solutions provider. For me, the NetFire brand is very sentimental because it was the primary brand of our company before Speakeasy acquired us in June 2004. We’ve seen a lot of changes over the past 4-years, most of which have been very positive. Regardless, this is very exciting for me and my staff and it’s a rare opportunity to take part in with a company as dynamic as Speakeasy. I wish that this milestone meant that things would slow down some for me, but it’s probably going to be the opposite. Therefore, if you are one of those complainers that says I never have time for you… well keep on complainin’. Haha! Just kidding! No, really, I expect to have some time available now and to update the blog more.
/mike
Web-based mp3 Player; Server Upgrade
Web-based mp3 Player
As some of you know, I just implemented a flash player (FLV) on my website. It’s nothing set in stone and will probably change, but because I have my own server I plan on slamming all my music onto another partition and then stream it using a web-based mp3 player. I think I’m going to use the XSPF Web Music Player over at Sourceforge, which is flash based. I haven’t read much on it, but I’ve got about 3.5GB of mp3’s I want to put up. I especially like the fact that it’s open source, as I’m a big fan of open source. We’ll see how it does for around 750 songs. I’ll see about putting something unique in place of the iPod category.
Server Upgrade
I’m going to throw all my videos and pics online as well, so that will definitely cause for a server upgrade. The machine’s already a dual proc, but I need to upgrade the memory on it and add some more drives. I’m thinking 250GB SATA drives should do it in a raid1 configuration. I’m not sure when I will get around to it, but I’ll throw up a post when it happens.
Apple launches web-based iTunes for server admins
I love Apple’s iTunes, but they need to make a version with a web-based gui interface that resembles the same features as what’s used on the desktop. Steve, can you hear me? Holler at me.
Selection Sunday
Welp, Selection Sunday is coming up this Sunday (ironic?). After the brackets come out I will be officially making my predictions, but I’m going to do it a little differently this year. I’m going to make two main selections: one will be based on my evaluation of the different college basketball teams and the other is going to come from some statistics that I think are very important when considering teams. With these statistics I’m not going to take win/losses and suggested team strengths, rather I’m going to go deeper into the team statistics throughout the season. I believe there are different aspects of the game than win/loss and strength of schedule for such predictions.
Make sure you check back as I when I reveal my picks from the statistics that I am going to use, I’ll give a more thorough explanation. It will definitely be of interest.