Where’s the Shack?

Good question. A year ago I posted about undertaking my most ambitious project ever. Here we are in March of 2009 and nothing has been done.

Here’s the deal – Mom & Dad have been off again on again about selling their land and relocating closer to town. Up until last week they had decided to stay put, so Project Shack was back on again.

Lo’ and behold, up popped an 80 acre homestead located just outside of town and within their price range.

Project Shack is now Off again. Once the muck dries up I’ll be out on the present acreage clearing deadwood and chopping it up for firewood, at the same time I’ll keep an eye out for a good spot, just in case. Maybe I’ll buy a few acres from my folks.

Meh. We’ll see.

Hoozyrdady.

Samurize

It’s about time I posted some of my projects. This one here is something I work on when server maintenance gets boring.

I first read about Samurize on Lifehacker.com. I run this setup on my secondary monitor at work. It’s big, taking up allot of screen space, and a work in progress. I made all but the weather stuff; it’s a config that came with the Samurize install that I’m slowly tweaking to match the rest of my setup. There are loads of plugins and such available for download, but I’m challenging myself to make do with the installed bells & whistles as possible. The weather.2004 stuff was proving to be a headache so I cheated. Hey, why kill myself reinventing the wheel?

On the left I have CPU, Memory and Network info, the current weather, a 5 day forecast and the latest radar image. On the right there’s running services, a work log and a section for notes on the bottom.

T’would be cool if I could get some images displayed randomly from My Pictures, and there is a plugin for that, I just haven’t played with it yet.

In the future I’ll work on a setup for my main home PC and laptop. Since I only rock the single monitor in the Underground Command Center that config will be way more compact and I’ll try for a more stylish, sci fi look.

Like this guy’s -

Click the picture to visit his flikr page.

Both the home and laptop displays will monitor vital stats like temp, loads, battery power level, Wi-Fi signal strength, so on and so forth. Maybe I’ll run an icon less desktop.

Stay tuned.

Hoozyrdady.