Fanatical Jacket

It was a bit hard for me to believe since I never thought I would ever be honored with such an award, but last week I was awarded the highest support-related award Rackspace gives out: the Fanatical Straightjacket. It is given to those that provide exceptional Fanatical customer service, which …

Out with the old…

So I finally broke down a bought a new monitor for my Ms. Pac-Man game. The monitor has had its fair share of issues but it actually worked well for the most part. My original plan was to buy a Wells-Gardner D7700 to replace it and was using coins I …

Hannah Paige

Congratulations to Brandon and Amy and their new baby, Hannah! She was born yesterday and weighed just under 3 kilograms and was 46.99cm in length (you US measurement types can go ahead and convert those numbers on your own :) Corey, my mom, and I all went out to see …

Screw UPS?

Yeah… To give a bit of back-story, I really wanted this package to be in my hands by today. It’s a DJ-oriented external sound box so that when I do my shows on K-RACK (our internal radio station at work) and need to mix songs, I can actually do so …

Apple Repeating History?

Yesterday Brandon and I were flinging e-mails back and forth in regards to Apple’s surprise rejection of Google’s new application for the iPhone that works with their newly launched Google Voice (formally GrandCentral) product. Admittedly, it got a bit heated and were we passing paper mail back and forth, they …

It Lives!

My MB-6582 lives – or at least the control surface does. It took me three days and some help form the MidiBox forums but I finally had every single LED light up when running the LED test pattern. Unfortunately while doing some load testing, something went awry with my power …