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Cowboys and Redskins
November 23rd, 2009Scuba!
November 15th, 2009Got SSI scuba certified and this was our final open water dive at Aquarena Springs (Spring Lake).
Fishing Lake Austin
November 8th, 2009
Austin fishing
November 1st, 2009Pictures taken from my mobile phone. Another awesome day in Austin — the cool morning air caused a small amount of fog to develop on top of the water.
DirecTV DVR HD upgrade
October 25th, 2009I decided to increase the hard drive capacity on my DirecTV receiver (model HR20-100). It comes standard with a 320GB drive which was always at 90-95% utilization. I just happened to finish upgrading my system HD from 500GB to 1TB, so I used my old 500GB as the DVR drive. Below are the pictures taken to replace the drive. It was pretty easy — you just need to unscrew a bunch of screws, take the old drive out, put the new one in, then put all the screws back. The system will autoformat the drive and it will be ready to use. If you wish to save your old data, you can always use ghost/dd/whatever your favorite mirroring software is to save your settings.
PS. The DVR allows for an external drive to be connected via E-SATA, but I did not want to take up any additional space in my media cabinet.
Yosemite
September 14th, 2009A hike through Tuolumne meadows to Upper Young Lake and down through Dog Lake trail.
Caliente!
August 4th, 2009Started planting some peppers (cayenne, jalapeno, serranos, and habanero). With the crazy Texas heat lately, only the habaneros have been producing anything worthwhile. This batch got turned into some nice salsa tonight.
Fishing a new spring
August 3rd, 2009Found a new spot to fish in Austin…natural spring that’s nice and secluded.
Bass were tiny (1-2lbs) but still fun!
Smithsonian Air and Space museum
August 3rd, 2009Decided to check out the new Smithsonian museum near the Dulles airport on my last day in Virginia. Pretty good museum — only cost was $15 parking fee.
