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I’m getting tired of driving with the laptop open on the seat next to me. Plus, it makes it extremely difficult to have passengers with the rediculous wiring jumble on the floor and passenger seat when I have all my PC equipment set up in the car. I’ve taken on a new project. The Jaypoc CarPC!

I’ve ordered an 8″ Touch Screen VGA monitor made by a company called Lilliput Electronics. eBay had some good deals on the display at just uder $300 shipped. I got my FedEx confirmation today, so I should have the monitor by the end of the week. I’ve spent some time researching software and found quite a few “CarPC” front-ends to give my CarPC an authentic mobile system look and feel.

For the meantime, My laptop will serve as the brains for the CarPC. Once I work out some of the kinks, I’ll build a dedicated box for the car itself. Anyone who’s seen my room knows that I have the extra computers laying around. It shouldn’t take long to put together a working PC. Who knows. Maybe I’ll even invest in a new mini-itx system or even one of the nifty in-dash PC systems they make now. (Yes, There’s whole computers that will fit in your dash in place of a radio!)….Maybe I’ll replace my radio with a CarPC system altogether…

Okay, I doubt that. But it’ll be fun!

Plans include:

No, Thats not a typo! I’ve just switched to the Instant Messaging client, GAIM. Why?

1. It looks like AIM
2. it has tabbed browsing like DeadAIM
3. it supports the AIM, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ networks
4. it has support for other chat networks as well (IRC, Jabber, etc..)
5. It was FREE 🙂

It seems pretty cool so far. I’ll keep people posted as to whether or not it works out. If you want to give it a try, check out the Gaim web-site.

Great day to start off the new year!

The weather was absolutely beautiful.. Headed out to my aunt and uncle’s and got to see them and my cousins… Then met up with Charlie to get some Geocaching done! We went back to Dead Bum Island and updated the cache. Then headed out in the surrounding area to follow a multi-cache that I attempted with Matt earlier with no luck. We found it! YAY!

Not planned originally, I went out to dinner with Jen and Charlie and came home exhausted… I don’t know how I’m still up now, but I guess sitting in bed watching TV and playin’ online doesn’t take much energy!

So far, this year’s going pretty good. I can’t wait to see what the rest of it has in store.

Woohoo! Buzzin on the juice of the ‘cohol… Happy New Year to all my Internet friends and cyber-junkies alike… It’s 2005!!!!! And just closing up the party with my drunk friends passing out on my shoulder and my brother’s dog slobering all over my arm! The evening winding down from an intimate gathering of just a few friend that turned into a cool gathering of approximately 10 of my closest friends… Not bad for a gathering of about 5 of us… It’s a new year… A new beginning.. and it’s all about having fun, and you can rest assured that I’ll be in the middle of it all! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

So I’m sitting in my room as I hear sleigh bells and the Jolly Ho Ho Ho of Satan Claus… I look out my window, figuring that It’s the Fire department driving around with Santa on the roof of the firetruck, but no. It was carollers…. I think this is the first time I’ve actually seen carollers anywhere other than on TV… First I thought it was pretty cool, then my mind filled with images. Images of Hasidik (sp?) jews going door to door singing classics such as “Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel…” or even one of Mr. Sandler’s joyous Chanukah songs.

Who knows.. There’s always next year!

Anyways, To all my Non-Chanukah cellebrating friends, Merry Christmas!