Commentary
Dude Tweets his Marraige in Real Time
Dec 10th
OMG. I love this. It’s classic, kind of goofy and untraditional, but classic. Props! The Minister announces him and his new bride as man and wife and he pops out the iPhones. Hands one to his new bride and they start updating Facebook and Twitter. After they get done with the updates, the kiss.
I surprised not only my guests, but also Tracy by pulling out my phone and posting on Facebook and Twitter from the altar during out wedding. I had her phone ready in my pocket, so when she asked for it I could hand it to her. No one knew about this except the minister, and myself.
Here is a link to the actual tweet.
Source: TechCrunch
CES 2010 is calling…
Dec 2nd
Dammit, each day that comes brings stronger urges to go ahead and head to Las Vegas for CES. For each of the last 3 years, I have planned NOT TO GO and end up going last minute. Is this year going to be the same? I doubt it. If Alabama beats Florida in the SEC Championship game Saturday, there is no chance I will be at CES 2010. I have a coworker that is senior to me that will take that time frame off to head over to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl if Alabama makes it the the BCS National Championship game. That will make it impossible to get off for CES.
I have to admit, I have already looked up rates on flights. 
My cousin Bo just emailed me to see if I was going to be there. He is and wanted to meet up for some nightlife. I am just going to send him a link to this post in a minute. In addition to all the event and meeting requests I have already received (Digital Focus, Showstoppers, etc) and Bo’s email, I just got this one in.
Someone wants me in Vegas on Jan 7th…Damn!
If you think you’ve cancelled an Xbox Live Account, Double Check…
Nov 18th
I haven’t had a rant in a while, so here goes…
Since I purchased an iPhone 3GS on the day of the Windows Mobile 6.5 launch, I used my Zune(s) much. It’s been over a month now and I am ready to move on. This morning I went online to cancel my Zune Pass subscription that I have been using since January 2007 and I discover that I am still paying for Xbox Live Gold.
Why is this a big deal? I got rid of my Xbox 360 in June 2007. I cancelled the account on the phone a month or two after that. Then, about a year ago, I found out that I was still paying for it and called in to have it cancelled again. This time I was assured that it would be removed. I trust too much I guess. I don’t check my bills often and since I happily paid for Zune pass for almost 3 years, no red flags popped up for me when we saw a charge for Microsoft hit the account.
So, in closing, take the time to make sure that it’s canceled before moving on with life. Now I have to get on the phone again to waste another 30 minutes just to get Xbox Live removed again and hope that they will cancel my Zune Pass at the same time.
Brett’s ITA State Tournament Video
Nov 15th
Brett was in the 2009 ITA State Tournament yesterday. He is a red belt and he competed against 2 other red belts and 3 senior red belts yesterday. He finished 3rd of 6 in form and he finished 1st of 6 in sparring. He won 5-3, 5-0. 5-1 and had to face his friend Harrison for the gold. Here’s a little video I threw together from the footage. Congrats Brett. We are so proud of you.
Brett at the 2009 ITA State Tournament from Chris Leckness on Vimeo.
I don’t normally watch CSI type shows, but…
Nov 13th
This photo explains why I now have to…
Need I say more? Ok, I will… Laurence Fishburne is one of my top 10 actors ever. Currently, the only other “non-sports” show that I watch with regularity is Cold Case on CBS. I don’t think my wife and I have missed a single episode since it started.
Mount Cody is higher than Rocky Top!
Oct 25th
Way to save the day, not once, but TWICE!
I hate that we had to drag it down to the wire like that, but if they pull their heads from their asses and win out, Cody is the MVP of the entire season for this feat x2.
Updated from Win 7 Beta to Win 7 Ultimate Today
Oct 25th
Decided to go ahead and stop being lazy and do this upgrade. I was running 32 bit Beta on a kick ass box that should smoke with 64 bit. I had no issues at all with Beta 32 bit, but I was robbing myself of some performance. Since I wanted to go to 64 bit, I had to wipe and do a clean install. Went smooth as silk and I am well underway to being back in business. This PC is my main workhorse, so it being down affects everything for me.
I ran the performance test and was quite disappointed though. My 128 GB SSD drive is hosing me up somehow. I have to investigate this.
Ps. I have a contest to win Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition on Mobilitysite right now.
Nintendo is really beginning to piss me off…
Oct 23rd
Let me preface this rant by saying that I used to be a pretty avid console gamer before I fell into “Everquest” and then “World of Warcraft”. I don’t play either anymore, but I still don’t game a lot on consoles. I have had the Atari, Sega Genesis, The original Nintendo, Playstation, Game Cube, Xbox, Xbox 360, and now my 3rd Wii, YES 3rd. That’s why I am pissed.
When the Wii was released, I ended up getting rid of the Xbox 360 and moving towards the Wii for a better selection of games for my kids. (now 16 and 7) The Wii was great for a while. 6 months later, I got into a situation where it would stop reading disks. I thought initially that my son was ruining the disks with his poor handling, but I realized it wasn’t that. Brand new disk, old scratched disks, whatever… they wouldn’t play. I called Nintendo and they walked me through some stuff to try. All came up empty, so they replaced it with other console. So a week goes by, no Wii for the kids, no biggie. The new one (or probably refurbed) came in and we were back to the races.
3 months after getting the replacement Wii, the same thing started happening again. This time I was sure it wasn’t my son since he started to learn to take care of his games after the 1st incident since I used that opportunity to make him feel as if he caused the problem by leaving disks out everywhere, etc… It happened on a weekend, just after my wife rented a couple games for them. Instead of saying, “wait until monday and I will call Nintendo again”, I said, “F it” and went out and bought another brand new Wii. All was fine once again.
3 months later, AGAIN… the same freaking problem. Being too lazy to call and go through the hassle of swapping, I bought our 3rd Wii. That was 6 months ago. Guess what…
YEP… AGAIN! I am getting really pissed off and it’s taking ever ounce of my control to type clean words instead of what I am feeling right now. I am going to get a little work done here today, but I hope to get a block of time to call Nintendo today. If I can’t find resolve, I have about 50-60 Wii games I will be selling, so watch out here for that announcement. I will probably sell them direct rather than on ebay. If I leave Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360? I am leaning 360 since I have 4-5 games that I forgot I had when we got rid of the 360 initially.
Damn you Nintendo. Make a good product please. Ok, wait, the Wii is a good product, what I mean is make a dependable product. I have talked to others that say they have had this issue too.
Rammer Jammer (Give em Hell Alabama) Rap w/ lyrics
Oct 11th
Someone redid a video of the 63 Boyz video of Give em Hell Alabama with modern photos and some lyrics. I get in the mood to hear this some from time to time and instead of searching, I embedded in into my sidebar. Come listen anytime. 
Brett’s Last Fall League Game Photos
Oct 5th
Here are just a few random photos my wife took. Most of them didn’t come out too well but it’s ok, I’ll get more in the spring. (hopefully)
Read on for a few more. If you are looking for the raw team photos, I am linking them at the end of this.
