Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

First Computer Memories – When I Got Started… Remember when you sat down in front of your first personal computer? I vaguely remember sitting there as a pissed off eight year old in 1991, starring at a DOS prompt. I was trying to play a 16-bit race car game and it kept complaining about HIMEM [...]

First Time Editing Video

Last night I took some video of my daughter climbing into her high chair. We have a small handheld video camera that writes to a mini DVD we use to record those special moments. Afterwards, I wanted to chop the video up and add some music overlays to it. I have Windows Vista with Media [...]

The Family That Stayed For the Hurricane

So, my wife’s family decided to stick it out in a hotel in Houston instead of driving the extra 45 minutes and coming up to Bryan/College Station to stay with us. She called them about an hour ago and they have lost power, and are stuck in a hotel room. Three people and two large [...]

Turning the Big 25!

I turn 25 in 10 minutes. Last year at this time I was thinking “I turn 25 in 1 year!” They say that the only thing guys have to look forward to after turning 21 is 25 because we get the holy grail – a drop in car insurance. Well let me tell you, 24 [...]