Josiah Alan Heslop

Josiah Alan Heslop was born on Feb 28th, 2008 at 3:04pm. He was 8lbs 2.6oz and 19 3/4 inches. He is a beautiful baby and we are proud parents. Both Carla and the baby are doing well. I’m post more pictures in the future as they come and when I’m not so

MacBook Air: Very thin indeed

You never notice how thin the MacBook Air is until you see it side-by-side with a regular MacBook Pro. All I can say is wow! http://www.flickr.com/photos/propheci/2277578470/in/pool-591442@N25/

Sheats Family Get Together (with Pix!)

The Sheats family got together a few weekends ago and celebrated Micah and Hannah’s wedding and Grandad and Grandma Sheats 80 and 75th birthdays! You can see pictures of the occasion here:

Setting up Azureus and SafePeer in Linux

azureus_splash.png So there are tons of utilities to keep the SafePeer plugin up-to-date in Windows (like BlueTack’s Blocklist Manager), but Linux and the Mac have been left out in the cold. We’ll I found a way to get those 190k+ ips blocked in azureus without having to use Peerguardian or MoBlock (MoBlock is still safer in my mind) in Linux. First we need to download the lists like we would for MoBlock. Here is the script I use:

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Adding fdftk to php under debian

Since there is not an easy step by step howto for adding features to packages I decided to write a quick and dirty one myself. this is also for reference if I ever need it later. Read more to see what I did….

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Don’t use cruise control while driving in the rain.

An interesting email my friend DP sent me via email: I wonder how many people know about this? A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago and Totaled her car. A resident of Kilgore , Texas she was traveling between Gladewater & Kilgore. It was raining, though not excessively, when her car … Read more

How to Quit Facebook

So are you addicted to facebook? Do you find yourself aimlessly looking through everyones posts over and over again and trying out new apps in hopes your friends will to. Well it might be time to get a grip on reality, Check out “How to Quit Facebook” on wikiHow to find out how you can … Read more

Word of the Day: Gaunt

So Mike and I were in starbucks this morning sipping on Zen tea when out of now where comes this chick who had a tatto of a she-devil on her leg. I pointed it out to Mike who quickly mentioned that she had one on both legs! They were the same pattern. Boring! Well she … Read more