Ok, so I'm not sure what to think about Graham Harrell not being invited to the Heisman ceremony this year.  Yes I went to Tech, yes I have season tickets to football games, BUT as a football fan I find it to be an atrocity that a player with his stats wasn't even invited.  Now, do I think he would have won?  No, but the fact that no invite was given is complete b.s.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not taking anything away from Tebow, Bradford, or McCoy... they are all deserving in their own right, but I have to believe that they are even amazed at how this unfolded.

Bottom line:  Complete FAILURE by the committee (or whoever) makes the nominations.

I am just starting to add photos, but stay tuned as more will be uploaded soon.  You can either click "Photos" at the top or click here.

*Note: Requires Microsoft Silverlight.  You'll get a download prompt.

A few weeks ago my 56" Samsung tv started turning itself off intermittantly.  Sometimes it would turn off after 10 seconds and other times it would turn off after a hour.  There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when it would turn off.  So after turning itself off 5 times in a row last week I decided to make the call to have it serviced.  The technician came out and replaced the bulb, it took a whole 10 minutes.  I was skeptical that it was the bulb, but it seems to have fixed the problem.  It hasn't turned itself off since the bulb change.

The project I am currently working on requires forums to be located at the root of the website.  Overall it's a very simple change, but I thought I'd blog about how I accomplished this.

This requires making changes to the siteurls_override.config (located at the root of the Web directory).  If you don't have a siteurls_override.config then add one.

Add the following lines of code:

<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/navigation/link[@name='home']" mode="remove" />
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='forums']" mode="change" name="path" value="/" />
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='forums']" mode="new" name="physicalPath" value="/forums/" /> 

That is it.  3 lines of code and now Forums should show up at the root of your site.

Note: The lines above should be nested within an <overrides> node.

Today, Tom Edwards sent me a link to a YouTube video of an "underground search engine rap battle" between Google and Yahoo!.  As a guy who works in technology this was one of the funniest things I'd seen in a while.  There are a series of 3 or so episodes (at the time of posting) and they are definitely worth checking out.

http://www.searchenginerapbattle.com/

Today it was officially announced that Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, is investing $20 million in Telligent.  I'm excited about this news and glad that we can finally share it with everyone else.  Telligent is a great place to work and this is going to make us even bigger and better (scary huh).  I'm looking forward to what the future holds!

Rob's blog post about the annoucement.

Official announcement on Telligent.com.

This past weekend I travelled to Detroit for business.  While I was there I had the opportunity to attend the Detroit Grand Prix.  I had access to pretty much every part of the event except pit road.  I was able to watch from a trackside chalet (literally 10 feet from the track), watch from the grandstands, walked through the paddock area where the cars are taken to be worked on, etc.  Here are some pics from the weekend.

LeRoi Moore, saxophone player and a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band past away today.  Ronni and I saw DMB 3 days ago and this was the first time I learned about his ATV accident.  The reports we read sounded like he was going to be ok, so this is kind of a shock.  My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

I use a program called Audacity to create the ringtone.

You can download Audacity here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

1. Open the .MP3 in Audacity.
2. Select the part of the song you want to be your ringtone.
   1. Try to keep the selection 30 seconds or under.
3. Save it as a "NEW" file.
   1. File -> Export Selection as .mp3
   2. Note: You might need the lame_enc.dll for encoding purposes.  You can get the .dll here.
4. Open iTunes and import the new file.
5. Find the song you just imported.
6. Right click on new file and choose "Convert to AAC"
7. In iTunes, find the newly created .AAC file.  Right click on file and choose "Show in windows explorer"
8. Rename the file from .m4a to .m4r
9. Import the .m4r song into iTunes
10. The song will now show up under Ringtones.
11. Drag and drop the ringtone to your iPhone.

Last night I decided to get an iPhone 3G.  So far I have to say that it is absolutely awesome.  The battery life seems to be less than desirable, but other than that I have no regrets.