Brian Minor

Now for all my nerd friends/followers, I know there have been a ton of these already posted on the internet, but I had a few reason why I wanted to still post my own.

1. I am just really excited to have one to unbox (even if it’s works and not my own personal one.)
2. I figure it would give me another post to describe how much I love the Drobo
3. Because I can.

So some of you may be wondering what in the world a DroboPro is:

The easiest way to explain it, is a device that you can put multiple hard drives in that creates one large drive but remove some of the entire storage space for automatically keeping all your files backed up. So a drive or 2 (in the case of the Pro) can go completely bad and all your files are still safe and sound.

So without any further ado here is the DorboPro unboxing…

I Friday I started moving my office from a crazy large cubical area to a the server room for the company.

The process began by removing the hard-drives from a massive amount of old computer junk. The moving the computers to another location until they can be disposed of properly. The process actually happened fairly quickly and I surprised most of my coworkers with how quickly I was able to move everything. I guess you can never underestimate the motivation for a way to be more excluded from the rest of the office so you can concentrate on work without as many interruptions.

Anyways I also used my iPhone and AutoStitch to take a few photos of the progress. So I hope you enjoy.

Friday – Before I started

Friday – After a few hours.

Saturday – After a few hours of work (yes i even worked during the weekend to get this done)

Monday – Everything cleared out and ready to move, but have to wait for permission.

Wednesday – Everything moved in and back to working and getting things done.

Overall I actually had a lot of fun getting everything moved around I still have a lot of organizing to do, but overall I think it is all going to turn out to be a great move.

*UPDATE
Below is a video so you can see a littl more of the (somewhat) finished product.

One of my favorite parables in the Bible is the Parable of the Talents (Matt 25:14).

Some of you may be thinking huh, what, and why, right about now, but the truth is that every time I hear this parable, (which is normally during offering) I take a different look at it (which I am sure a lot of you do too).

This story always makes me check myself and the skills (talents) that God has blessed me with. Now sadly, I wasn’t given a silver tongue and my writing abilities, well you know, speak for themselves. But I do believe that God blessed me with the abilities that I do have and this parable always checks me and brings me back to a single thought.

• Am I using my talent more for myself or for God.

This thought is what made me want nothing more then to get www.jokesandjesus.com off the ground, but sadly I haven’t been giving it the attention that it deserves lately. And it’s not that I still haven’t been using my talents for God, but I do feel like I can be doing more. And I don’t know about you, but I think God deserves every bit of the best that I can give him.

So my question to you is:

Are you just hiding your talents or are you using them and allowing them to grow, so that you can serve God even more through them?

This blog post is a little different then most, cause usually I post about what I do or like or have tried. This post I really want your opinion on what I should do.

So for months I have been meaning to find a way to backup my wife’s photos to “the cloud” and I’m still not sure what way I really want to go.

Currently I do have a few personal thoughts on how I could go:

1. I could just upload to flickr (I do have a pro account) and mark all the photos as private. (This is one method I have been contemplating for a while.)
2. I could go the Mozy or Carbonite route and backup more then just my photos automatically and restore if/when something really bad happens.
3. I could go the route of Amazon S3 storage (or other like service) where I can either drag and drop or use software for an automatic backdrop.

Also keep in mind that my wife is a professional and hobbyist photographer, so we have at least half a terabyte or more of photos.

So any suggestions?

As most of you already know I failed horrible on my new years resolution to post more often on my blog.

I don’t know what it is, but I just can’t force myself to sign into my blog and just type something out for a few minutes. So, I finally figured I would test out a desktop client. MarsEdit is a client that working with wordpress on the mac. They give you a free 30 day trial, so I guess after 30 days if I am posting more I may actually pay for it.

But only time will tell.

I may be a little late to the game, but as I went to YouTube.com today I noticed that they now offer Movies and TV shows.

I am guessing that they are trying to get into the Hulu.com market, but from what I have seen so far they basically offer the same content and they are having some major issues with pixelation and video/audio syncing.

I figured I would give it a  try myself.  Using my MacPro and the wonderful Firefox browser, I started watching a movie and I can agree with the bashing. Only 3 mins in to the movie I had already dealt with a decent amount of pixelation, but then the audio got off sync. I don’t know about you, but to me this is the most annoying thing in the world. (I deal with syncing audio up on a semi regular basis)

So if you ask me as of now YouTube’s Movies and Shows is a big Fail. And the only way I see them succeeding is by fixing the issues and offering more and better movies then what Hulu is already offering, but it will take a pretty big miracle to make the movie big wigs to agree to that one.

What do you all think about YouTube adding Movies and TV Shows? Good Idea? Or should they just leave it to Hulu and stay focused on the user created content?