Deep Inside My Thoughts

It’s hard to believe it’s 2009 already.  It’s hard to believe I’ve seen 3 New Years out in Kansas, and I’ve really not done a damn thing for any of them.  This year was no different, and I brought in the New Year relaxing at home with some good Whiskey.  I tried to watch the ball drop on Hulu, but it seems that they had some technical problems, and their streaming wasn’t working.  I would imagine that all the multitudes of people that don’t have cable TV, and only have cable internet, had the same thing in mind.  Maybe next year Hulu, invest in some fatter bandwidth pipes for your dynamic content.

I took most of the week off of work, and I’ve really just lounged at the apartment sick.  I’ve watched countless movies, played around with the new computer Geary traded me with, and even played around with Zen Cart, an E-store when my dad mentioned something about it.

I’ve probably watched 15 movies in the last five days.  Rapidshare comes in quite handy for this, and I can almost find anything I want.  Bittorent still has its uses, but for speed, Rapidshare will always win, especially when coupled with a download manager.  What takes an hour on Bittorent, I can get in 20 minutes, as long as I don’t need to do anything else on the Internet at the moment.   Anyhow, I can say that new Benjamin Button movie is quite frankly the best storytelling I’ve seen since the Dark Knight, and easily takes the place of the #2 movie of the year in my book.

That new computer I got certainly isn’t the best.  It’s only got a 1.6 GHz P4, 256MB of RAM, and a 40GB hard drive.   I installed Kubuntu and then finally Unbuntu on it, just to play around with.  The current line of thought is just to mirror this blog, automatically sync it to the Linux box, and propagate any changes to any machine within the hour.  So far, it isn’t working 100%, but I think there’s a limitation on the shared server on Dreamhost, so I don’t know if it will get working or not.   I suppose if I don’t get it working, I’ll just sell the damn thing.

I also spent a couple hours Saturday playing with Zen Cart, seeing how easy it would be to set up an online store.   My dad mentioned something about setting up an online store for his company, and I downloaded Zen Cart a few years ago, and I wanted to check out how easy it would be.  There’s a lot of data entry for products, but once that is done, there isn’t much left to do.  I thought about setting up my own E-store long ago, but the margins on most things I could drop ship were quite too low.  Still, I wonder if I should take a new look into it, and it might be a good way to make some money without too much work, beyond the initial investment.  It will be interesting to see how my dad does his E-store, if he just buys a turnkey solution or piece meals it.   Piece meal is cheaper by far, but turn key is easier, requiring only inventory entry.  But my thought is, if you’re going to go thru all the hassle of entering in inventory, why not go the extra mile, invest another hour or so, and save yourself $20 a month at least?

I ready to get back to work tomorrow, and try to get something done.  We haven’t been too productive lately, but I really want to get things done this week, and try to get a good chunk of Valley Falls off my desk.