Have you ever wondered why retailers charge $40 for a measly 8GB USB key? It’s all about being lame. Go get a micro usb card adapter for $7 and an 8GB microSD card for $10 and save yourself some money.
Once you have the card reader, microSD cards are fairly inexpensive and you can quadruple your storage over a traditional USB memory stick.
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Been at the ESRI Developer Summit in Palm Springs since Sunday. The drive out here was about 5, 5.5 hours but luckily Caleb drove the whole way. I am NOT looking forward to this drive by myself tomorrow! But I AM looking forward to seeing Jen and Kai… immensely.
Anyways, we’re at the Hyatt Regency. Caleb said that it was pretty much a dump last year, but they’ve renovated since then and it’s actually pretty nice. Couldn’t be any worse than the dump that Jen and i stayed in when she had to go down for Federal jury duty. Ugh.
Downtown Palm Springs is interesting. There are a lot of good restaurants within walking distance. There are a lot of families with their kids, and a lot of girls dressed up like they’re going out clubbing but we had yet to see any clubs. Two “pubs” and some liquor stores and that was it. Where are these people going? I think i’m too boring of a person to ever venture out and find out.
The Convention Center had some cool sculptures and stuff outside in this rock garden type area. And they had a Chair Forest! Who knew such things existed? Surely not I!
Here are some pics from the whole thingy.
On the way out, i kept passing this truck. the logo on the side said Super White Power. I guess there was a brand of trucks, White. Interesting how that sounds now though.
I finally got my photo site up and running. It’s missing the gallery and some other things that I still have to add, but at least it’s there and not the base WP install any more. And maybe some day there will be a reason that I actually HAVE a photo site.
A week was spent in San Jose up with my in-laws and their larger-than-ginormous family. The occasion was not a happy one, but everyone made the most of it and the comfort of family.
Mary Lois Moriarty (Jen called her Grama ) left us on February 18th, 2010 and she will be sorely missed. She was such a great person, and you could tell how much she was loved by the people that came together to celebrate her life. And you always knew if you were part of her “in” crowd if you were fortunate enough to receive a Christmas stocking from her!
Safe travels, Lois.
So a lot of things have happened since the last post… and even before then.
Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) was last November, and I was fortunate to be able to go with a few other CygNet employees.
Christmas was crazy, shuffling back and forth between families plus a sick kid ridden with two ear infections… New Year’s was just as crazy, down in Camarillo – Kai screaming his head off from 10PM to 4am in the hotel like someone was sticking him with needles.
Valentine’s Day was chill, with us hanging out at home and able to go out to dinner the following night (although Jen was really sick and feeling like crap).
And now… here we are… and Kai is almost 11 months old. Can it really have been almost a year now?
I’m getting old.
I’ve been super lazy. It’s in the banner, you get it. More to come.
Can you believe it!?! Weaksauce! No power… boo. Thank goodness for laptops/netbooks and tethered modem access through the BlackBerry.
By the way, the Dell Mini 10v is a pretty sweet netbook, if you’re looking for netbooks. The EeePC’s have much better battery lifespan though.
Hope the power comes back soon…
It’s funny how fast he’s growing. I know, it’s only been a month but it seems like he’s changing so fast! He can smile on purpose now, he’s a master kicker and of course, he’s got lungs on him that let the screaming go on for days. He looks around a lot more nowadays and still has the explosive concussive blast that lets us know it’s time to change his diaper.
Jen has started a blog for him, detailing some random events in the Life of Kai. Check it out!
There is a new addition to the youngest Pong family! Kai Choi Pong was born on Friday, April 17th at 8:44am after a 12-hour labor. He was delivered into this world at French Medical Hospital in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Jen’s water broke around 8:30PM on Thursday, April 16th and after a quick call to the doctor we headed down to the hospital. Jen’s contractions had just started to kick in once we got to French and we had no idea what was in store for us! Jen decided to go au-natural and went through the entire labor unmedicated – truly crazy, she is amazing!
What was in store for us after 12 hours of extremely painful labor was a healthy 7lb. 15 oz. baby boy! He’s been such an amazing thing to come into our lives, although not without his share of keeping us up at all hours of the night! Now, our entire lives are dedicated to his safety and well-being.
Yay for baby Kai!
Jen and I took a trip out to Shell Creek Rd. a few weeks ago to see nothing really blooming yet. I went out there today and was greeted with fields of yellow. I was hoping for a bit more variety, but it could just be that i’m still a bit early. At any rate, its hard to trek out here very often since it takes 45 minutes or so driving relatively fast and its not on the way to anywhere at all.
Regardless, I still had a fun time taking some pics in the area. There were a couple of lupins that I didn’t find very impressive, as well as some other randomly dispersed flowers, but not anything that really struck my fancy. Still, fields full of yellow flowers is nothing to be sad about.
I hope other people have more luck when they travel out to there.