I launched yet another website: this time, for the Carbondale Community High School Band. Introducing TerrierMusic.com. It’s a community website powered by CivicSpace to host pictures, music, video, discussions, blogs, and more relating to the band. Check it out if you get a chance and if you’re interested then sign up: everyone is welcome.
Author Archives: Reid Burke
Killing Background Music in Firefox
Many of my friends use Xanga to publish their online journals. That’s all fine and well given that most of them use relatively tame color schemes and such (but not all). However, something that has always made me angry is when I’m reading a entry and suddenly out of nowhere music starts playing. You see, […]
Promotion, SIU Homecoming
On Thursday I got “promoted” to the Production department at SchoolCenter. This means I’ll be doing programming instead of general system administration. Right know I think that staying a sysadmin would be a better job, but I was offered a bit more money ($8/hr as opposed to $6.50/hr) and the ability to work longer and […]
Passport, meet CarChip E/X
Yesterday, to my dismay, my Check Engine light in my 1998 Honda Passport SUV came on yet again. Lately, the light has kept coming on and going out every so often, and last time I took the car in, the mechanic determined that the car’s computer gave him a “EVAP” code and so he replaced […]
First Band Performance, Work Update
I’ve been really busy lately with school, work, and band. On Saturday the Carbondale Marching Terriers had our first and second competition on the same day in O’Fallon and Belleville, Illinois (near St. Louis). We didn’t do as great as we hoped; nevertheless, we were able to beat Marion, a local rival, in both competitions. […]
Band, Steak n’ Shake, Server Move
On Friday we had another field show exhibition at a home football game. It went alot better than last week but we still have work to do… on Tuesday we have Media Night where we perform a exhibition of our show, Mask of Zorro, for anyone interested. We invite the media in particular; thus the […]
Life Happenings
This week has been crazy for me. As some of you may know, I work for SchoolCenter, a local Internet company in Carbondale which creates and hosts websites for schools. We’re moving into a new building in 2 weeks, so it’s been a hectic process preparing the building for the move. I’ve been working 3 […]
Hackaday!
Wow! I’m on the front page of Hackaday! My recent article on Linux on the 2G iPod mini was accepted as a Hackaday post… very nice. Thanks guys! Check out the Hackaday post if you haven’t already.