I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it here, but I run the sound at my church. I’ve been doing it for about 7 years. I didn’t know that the ability to do it was worth anything.
We had a guest pastor a few weeks ago, and he told me he’d like to hire me to do sound for him when he was pastoring in the area. I thought he was just making me feel good about myself, initially. He called me yesterday afternoon because he was ministering at a church close to mine. I made sure it was okay with my pastor, and I called Mr. Jones back to find out where to meet him.
I was only there for about two and a half hours, but it was a good job, and I’d like to do it more often.
Category: Tech Stuff
Stuff dealing with the site or anything else technical
Kunefke.US meets Gmail
I signed up a while ago for beta testing a new service using Gmail with my domain. It is really cool, and was pretty simple to set up. I can set up up to 25 users (email accounts) for free using gmail as the host. They have a kunefke.us address, but it is hosted on Google’s servers.
The really cool thing about this is that there is no procedure to set it up on each individual computer. I just have to give them a link to the sign-in page, and they keep up with the link.
In fact, I’ll give it to you right HERE. If you want an account, shoot me an email by clicking HERE
School Work
I created a second blog to use for school. I know that at some point I will need to use it for communication with my professors or classmates. School is taking much longer than I anticipated, but I know it’ll be worth it in the long term.
My NAU blog can be found HERE. I tried to find a theme that looked different, but I just couldn’t break away from my current theme. Let me know if you find a similar theme in another color, or something with expandable sidebar items.
Spore
I just came across what will probably be one of the best games to come out this decade. It is being built for the PC, but it is rumored to be designed for the Xbox 360 & Nintendo Revolution as well.
The name of the game is Spore. They originally wanted to call it ‘Sim Everything’, but through the production, “it” wanted to keep it’s code name as the title.
When you begin the game, you start out as a simple spore that lives in a drop of water. Over time, you evolve until you are large enough and have the mental capacity to have a tribe. Your tribe evolves into a civilization. You can then control an entire solar system, making your way to interstellar travel.
One of the neat things about this game is that the creatures you develop are uploaded to the network, so that other users can interact with your species. There is no interaction between users, but the number of species that can be created is immense.
The video is kinda long (35 minutes), but it is very informative about how much fun the game is going to be. It is supposed to be released before the end of this year.
Check it out HERE
Catching Up
I’m getting caught up on a lot of things. It feels good to get things done and behind you.
I can’t wait to move. I’m looking forward to it greatly. I just hope my work situation gets better instead of worse. I’m moving farther away from Houston, but there’s a chance I may be working IN downtown Houston, instead of where I currently work. It’s supposed to be just temporary, but some plans don’t go the way you want them to.
I’m looking forward to catching up with some old friends and making our old friendships current. I hope living closer will make it a little easier to maintain relationships.
I can’t wait for teleporters to be introduced to the market…
Revamping
I’ve been revamping the setup of my entire web portfolio, barring this one. No, this one will stay right where it is.
The rest of it is getting reorganized, though. I’m moving stuff around… which means that I basically have to recreate a lot of it, as the location of the scripts and pages are referenced in the databases, which are also moving.  I can’t help it, they have to move.
I’ve registered my domain through 2011. I figure if Google, or any other search engine out there, likes to consider the registration length in the relevance of their searching algorythms, then I better have a longer future than just one year.
My future is looking brighter. I haven’t felt this good about my future in a while now. Do you ever remember those moments in life where you feel like you’re in a rut. I’ve felt like that for over 3 years, up until the past few weeks.
I’m starting school 2 weeks from today. Nervous… Excited… Curious…  I can’t wait.
How’s that rambling to start the week off?
Redesigning Again?
I’m looking for redesigns. I’m probably going to use one from OpenWebDesign.org.
I saw the site on Digg, and they have quite a few that can be used for free. I’m trying to pick one from a few that I like.
I spent all day doing the same thing I did last week, so I’m exhausted as I’m on my way to hit the sheets
Take a Pill and Sleep Less
There are doctors working on this pill that will enable people to sleep as little as 2 hours a day and wake up feeling more refreshed than if they had slept for 8 hours without the pill. This sounds like something I would definitely be up for.
I am always looking for ways to manage my time better. With this pill, I’d be able to do a lot more, as well as spend more time with my family.
According to this article, one could possibly go several days without sleep. They’re talking about cracking our actual bodies… in other words, figuring out ways to get around the natural sleep cycles.
I’ll admit, it’s a bit scary, and I’m sure they’ll also prove that use of the pill will shorten your life by 30 years, but, hey, I’d be willing to try it out. If they prove that, I’ll take the pills that make me sleep for 22 hours a day once I retire. It’ll all work out in the end.
MySpace Phenomenon
I don’t understand it. Yet, I do understand.
I remember years ago when AOL was “the internet”. It was fun to just get in a chat room and chat with random strangers. It was easy to get to know people and even make up an alternate personality just for fun.
The funny thing is, as soon as I get my account set up on MySpace, I find Tagworld. It was only a week later when I found Yahoo 360. The same day I found the same type of service from MSN.
There’s one major problem with this. There needs to be a centralized place for all of these services to interact with each other. The problem with all of the chat services out there is that they do not open themselves up to communication with each other. These new services will have the same problem if someone doesn’t address this issue.
The idea of MySpace is incredible. Now that there’s competition, there’ll have to be changes.
I hope Michael Robertson has noticed the problem, and can come up with a solution. He seems to have an answer to all of the internet communication issues.
Starting School in March
I’ve gotten registered and I’m ready to start getting things done. I’m attending National American University’s Online Campus. I’m taking two classes, and they’re probably going to be easier than the rest I’ll be taking.