This is more a link so I remember to try this.  But we run XMBC on our old xbox at home and use it to play movies, music, everything over the network off all of our computers.  Lifehacker has put together a  pretty thorough article on how to run it off a thumb drive, and I definitely want to try it out:

http://lifehacker.com/395212/run-xbox-media-center-from-a-usb-drive

A GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING FOR CEOs
By HERBERT MEYER

This is a paper presented several weeks ago by Herb Meyer at a Davos,
Switzerland meeting which was attended by most of the CEOs from all the
major international corporations — a very good summary of today’s key
trends and a perspective one seldom sees. Herbert E.
Meyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the
Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National
Intelligence Council. In these positions, he managed production of the U.S.
National Intelligence Estimates and other top- secret projections for the
President and his national security advisers.

Meyer is widely credited with being the first senior U.S. Government
official to forecast the Soviet Union’s collapse, for which he later was
awarded the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the
intelligence community’s highest honor.

Formerly an associate editor of FORTUNE, he is also the author of several
books.

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Been really busy lately developing www.wakeboardsd.net

will be posting regularly here soon!

Man, where was all the fun stuff like this when I was in college?  We never had awesome, campus wide drug busts where frat tools were getting rounded up in handcuffs!  Turned out to be a pretty huge bust, with 6 fraternities being kicked off campus, and 96 students arrested.  Really makes me proud to be an SDSU alumni!

I was aware of this shit going on at state, but had no idea just how big the operation was.  Seriously, there is drug use going on at every college (including private religious ones!) across the nation.  You can’t stop it.  But its always surprising just how organized the distribution and supply systems are.  These kids should have been business majors! haha

Anyway, this has been a busy day of web design.  Finally got around to tearing into the galleries that were down on both www.dbgconcepts.com and www.sabertoothtattoo.net.  These two sites were using the Joomla Expose Flash Gallery components that broke when Chase upgraded to a new server.  Found a cool new component called RS Gallery, a little less flashy but looks stable nonetheless.  5+ hours of work, but it feels good finally get something done.  Maybe now Chad can fix the amp on our boat! HA!

I’m sick of looking at a computer.  See ya!

One of the books I have been intending to read is The Four Hour Work Week. I have heard good things about it, and truthfully, I am really just interested in cutting a day out of my work schedule. I hate getting stuck in the grind of working 9 hours every day only to get home, take care of a couple things before passing out and getting back up the next morning to do it all over again. Then I try to pack as much fun as I possibly can into the two days I have off for my weekend, before its back to doing it all over again. The only positive is that weeks tend to fly by when you are in such a repetitive grind, but god damn does it start to wear on you. Thats why when a buddy of mine sent me this link about Outsourcing Your Life in an attempt to achieve a condensed work week, I began to question if this could really be done. Intriguing:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/outsourcing-life/

I borrowed that image from his site, but look at all the cool stuff he has time to do in that extra day!  Turn into a woman and get a massage, turn back into a dude and go skiing down mount everest, and enjoy an African sunset in the middle of the sahara desert.  I WANT THAT LIFE!  Well, maybe not the woman/massage part.  Well, I like women, and massages, but I don’t want to be one.  Anyway…

With such cheap outsourcing in India (I think he paid $4-10 per hour for outsourced assistants), why not do this to delegate the menial tasks that you are assigned with day to day? Granted, their English is not flawless, and you pretty much get what you pay for, but if these people can take care of your searching and reporting research for you, hey why not? This sparked an idea for me - why not start a blog that is written, inadvertently, by outsourced Indian personal assistants. Every day I could pass off a research topic to them to have formatted for a blog post ready for the next day. Essentially it could be my blog, containing topics I would love to write about but don’t have the time, and the content is created from their perspective. This could be a pretty interesting experiment in outsourced Blogging. “Outblogging“? no? “BlogSourcing“? Not web 2.0 enough? hmm… I’ll have to think this one over. What do you think?

On another note. I’m burnt out. I need to drink a bottle of wine tonight. SeeYuh!