Tag Archives: Tech

Create Custom Home Page with iPhone Icon Generator

I was inspired to try this out for myself after reading a Lifehacker article. It’s really pretty simple if you’ve got a hosting account to load all this up to. What you’re seeing above is a screen cap of the version I made for myself. You can see it “live” HERE.

It’s really easy to customize to your own site preferences and background images. The “creator” who originally did this made it as a custom homepage for the iPad but you can really use it for almost any web browser you’d like. I’ve got it running as my homepage in Chrome as well as the new tab page with a little help from the Custom New Tab extension.

iPhone Icon Generator

iPad Home Page

Lifehacker article

MobilePress

MobilePress

I just added the MobilePress WordPress plug-in so that if you are ever checking the updates on my site with your choice of mobile device, whether it be an iPhone or Blackberry, you can easily navigate it in the format you see above. It’s a sample shot I took of what it would look like on a BlackBerry 8820 running the Opera Mini mobile web browser. I hope this is a helpful update for anyone that checks up on the site from a phone.

2008: Year In Review

January:
Texas Tech wins the Gator Bowl! This game was insanely awesome to watch.
[redacted]

February:
Stephanie & Mark got married …and Katie and I had a great time celebrating it with them.
Two Babies in Two Days Karol Batey and Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Sisk welcomed little ones into the world.

March:
Spring Break This trip was great. Thanks to Laura for hooking us up with the place and Chris for the idea.
JB Enterprises I created my own company just for the hell of it.

April:
Wedding Invite Responses The first one was the best. Nice job Andy.
Rehearsal Dinner Invite I really had fun designing this. Thanks to my Mom for the idea.
Katie’s Birthday Great picture of her as a baby.

May:
Iron Man came out and it was AWESOME.
Jeff & Erika got married and they danced to N*SYNC
Chili’s Chips have some extra additives.

June:
Katie’s New Job ended up being in the Plano ISD.
Cowboy Boots I purchased my first pair ever, whodathunkit?
My New Job took me to Frisco.

I got married on June 21. Now THAT was pretty cool.
St. Lucian Honeymoon and it was awesome.

July:
Katie and I moved to Frisco and we spent July 4 in Galveston.
Married Life is good.
I built my second poker table.
New Car for Katie.

August:
I made some built-in shelving in my garage.
Katie and I joined my parents for a play at a small theater that they frequent.
Went to a Dallas Cowboys preseason game with the wife, Dad, and Rob.

September:
I visited the Sam Houston statue.
Raider Awakening and mosquitos.
Wedding Photos arrived.
LoveSac love.

October:
I voted in the Presidential election.
My Dad and I watched a Stars game and a KISS tribute band.

November:
Texas Tech beat Texas 39-33. Probably the single greatest game of football I’ve ever witnessed.

December:
Christmas lights went up on my very own place for the first time ever. Not too bad.

Christmas was great this year. Katie and I spent Christmas Eve with my parents taking a tour of the neighborhood all bundled up in my Dad’s Jeep with the top down and we finished the night with Polar Express on DVD and hot chocolate. We opened presents with my parents and went to Christmas Mass at 10am. Then we drove to Houston to spend Christmas dinner and more presents with Katie’s maternal grandparents. After that we went back to Katie’s parent’s house where we were staying the weekend and opened more presents with them and Katie’s brother Kevin. The day after Christmas was spent with Katie’s paternal grandmother and that side of the family for dinner and more presents. We went to her parents’ land the next day and loaded my truck up with as much free firewood as we could handle and that was the extent of our Christmas vacation and we rang in the New Year in super relaxed, chill style at my parents house with a fire and four games of Deluxe Wood Edition SCRABBLE.

Happy New Year!

Knee Update

Well, as some of you may or may not have known, back in the third week of September I began a Half Marathon training program. I was successfully able to complete the first six weeks before I had some knee trouble. Unfortunately for me it was the same knee that I had surgically repaired last year after tearing my left ACL.

I began having a good amount of swelling and fluid build up on my knee at the surgical incision site. I took last week off of running and visited the doctor on Thursday for a check-up. They could see there was a bit of an infection at the incision site and gave me some antibiotics to combat that and set me up with a follow-up appointment for Monday (yesterday).

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Living Up To The Hype

Here are a few of the text’s I received as a result of my Texas Tech Red Raiders beating the Texas Longhorns on Saturday night in Lubbock on national tv.

Maria M. 10:31pm: Pull it together! Beat them will ya? (OU grad student)
Maria M. 11:00pm: Your stupid fans!
Dad 11:23pm: Oh my!
Chris H. 11:24pm: Beautiful! (former roommate, Miss. State grad)
Mom 11:24pm: That was awesome!!!
Mike B. 11:25pm: Why didn’t Leach go for two? (uncle in law)
Maria M. 11:25pm: No way! Were you one of the morons that ran on the field before it was over? You are so lucky that didn’t go badly! (Katie and I made sure there was no time on the clock before we ran on the field.)
Anthony B. 11:25pm: I have no words to describe what just happened with that game. (UT grad, bf from high school)
Anthony B. 11:32pm: Wow…that’s all I have to say, Tech better run the table or else this will be for nothing.

Texas Tech Shocks The World

Texas Tech BaseballBoth Andy and Jared invited me to the Tech baseball game after telling me that we had beaten No. 2 Missouri 3-2 in the 9th the day before. It just so happens that they would revisit such late game heroics today. The Red Raiders got off to a horrible start being down 5-0 before they got anything going but stayed in the game and gave themselves a chance late. They tied the game at 7-7 late but gave up 4 more runs to go down.

That brings us to the 9th inning. We were down 11-9 and tied it up at 11′s. Then we got one out. Man on third. Missouri decides to walk our 4 and 5 hitters bringing up 6. No big deal right? He gets a few pitches and then JACKS a walk-off grand slam for the 15-11 win capping off a 6-run 9th and the series win. My voice is still hoarse. Go Tech.