Im trying out my friends nexus one.. I took my sim card out of my iPhone 3GS and put it in the nexus one! So far I like it a lot, and I’m posting using WordPress for android.

Check out this video from my good buddy Times [EYES]. Chicagos own is destroying the Snoop Dogg/Symantec sponsored Hack is Wack competition! Make sure to vote for his video at Hack is Wack.

Check out the song Illuminate by Casey Sabol, he used to be the singer for periphery. This is his solo stuff, and it sounds amazing! He has a couple solo songs, and is supposedly working on a full length CD. His myspace went down about a month ago, so hopefully something big is coming!

http://myspace.com/caseysabol

I did a complete restore on my macbook, from Leopard to Snow Leopard. I backed up my personal files, deleted Leopard, loaded Snow Leopard, and basically started over. Because of this I finally had an excuse to redo my geektool setup.. so check it out!

Check out Sonia. It’s my friends band, and they just released their EP, titled “Close My Eyes”. You can preview all of the tracks on their website, and purchase the album too. I’m not 100% positive, but I’m pretty sure that you can purchase their music straight through Amazon or iTunes too!

The music itself is great, and it is always refreshing to listen to bands that have talent, and want to make good music. Check them out!

Website: Sonia The Band – http://soniatheband.com

Track Listing:

• Summer Wind (3:58)
• Red Leaves (3:32)
• In Your Defense (3:47)
• Close My Eyes (3:30)
• The Hourglass (5:32)

Check out my friends music, he just released his first album and every track on it is awesome! He wrote, performed, and produced every song on the album himself, and every song sounds professionally done. The music on the album spans many different genres, but if you just want to hear a great musician do his thing, you should definitely check out this album!

The album went on sale the first of September this year, and you can get a copy by emailing Ben (his email should be on his website). Definitely check it out!

Website: Ben Scott Music - http://benscottmusic.net

Track Listing:

• Take It Away (3:34)
• Ouch, I Stubbed My Toe (2:57)
• City Out of Clay (3:16)
• Into Blue (2:46)
• The Pacifist (4:13)
• Another Vague Remembrance (3:18)
• Things That Smell Like Things (2:40)
• Nothing (2:48)
• Traumatize (2:28)
• Cloth Garden (3:09)
• The Greedy Fisherman (3:17)
• Lux Lucis (4:40)
• The Burger Song (0:45)

Now that I switched over to wordpress I can use the wordpress app for the iPhone! The app is really awesome, it definitely beats out iblogger for me (I love landscape capability). I even attached an awesome picture that’s been on my phone forever of me at the Art Museum in Chicago.

daveeddy.com is now fully running a wordpress installation, i have switched over from drupal completely using this website as a guide!

Some things are still a little buggy, but it’s working!

What is rsync?

Rsync is a program that can be used to backup your files. Much like Apple’s Time Machine, or syncing an iPod, it can be used to sync your data with a remote server, creating redundancy in your data to help keep it safe. By default rsync comes with Mac’s and most Linux distributions; I don’t know about Windows.

I set up a script to rsync all of my documents, pictures, music, etc to dataDyne (my raid). Rsync will check for differences in the local files (on my laptop) and the remote files (on dataDyne), and automatically sync the two computers. Rsync will transfer files over SSH so it is a secure connection; having SSH keys really helps here so it doesn’t keep asking for a password. Only changes I make on my laptop will affect rsync, so the files on dataDyne will match what files are on my laptop (one-way sync), much like the same way an iPod will match changes made to iTunes, not the other way around.

The music is sent to a Public directory on my raid, because it is [shared using daap][firefly].

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Mike got a couple of “Digium Quad Tdm400P” PCI Phone Cards from a friend so we decided to use a spare computer that was in our apartment and turn it into a PBX.

Were running Trixobx to manage the PBX, and all of the configuration is done through a webGUI.

So far we have 3 phones up and running. Extension:

• 111 Mike
• 112 Dave
• 115 Server Room

All of the phones can call each other. If a message is left on a persons voicemail it will be forwarded to their email. Each phone can also order a wake up call!

Picture of the desk in the server room where we configured the PBX. You can see the phone next to the keyboard.

Picture of the 2 cards in the back of the computer.