Google Labs in Google Apps

Posted Fri, 11/21/2008 - 21:54 by Chris

In my second Google-centric post of the evening, I wanted to share how you to can enable Google Lab applications in your Google Apps Accounts.  It turns out it takes about 13 seconds + 24 hours.  To turn on Google Labs,

Google Releases Themes for Gmail

Posted Fri, 11/21/2008 - 21:37 by Chris

In case you missed it, Google rolled out some themes for their Gmail mail client.  Official details regarding the 30 or so themes that are available under the Settings tab of your Gmail account are available at the Official Gmail Blog.  Apparently, there are three unfortunate limitations:

Be Prepared

Posted Tue, 11/04/2008 - 00:31 by Chris

This evening was a late one as Amy and I spent the whole night at the Nashville Chapter of the Red Cross.  We believe that it is important to stay current on our CPR, AED, and First Aid Certification.  In two nights, once a year, we go through a training that we have gone through a dozen times before.  It changes every so often like the number of compressions to breaths, but it is roughly the same.  But we go for the certification and to practice it.

Going to the Ryman

Posted Sun, 11/02/2008 - 22:39 by Chris

We'll be headed to the Ryman in a couple of weekends to take in the late show at the Opry on a Saturday night.  Because of the Christmas Spectacular at the Opryland Hotel, the Grand Ole Opry is performing at the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville.  The Ryman is often times considered the original home of the Grand Ole Opry, but it is actually the fifth location of the Opry.  In 1925 the Opry started at the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville.

Integrating Harmony 550 with Insignia TV

Posted Sun, 11/02/2008 - 17:17 by Chris

This weekend I picked up a Logitech Harmony 550 universal remote.  I selected it to interface with my home entertainment center that has an Apple TV and a DIRECTV device.  Both have proven troublesome in integration.  However the Harmony quickly recognized the devices as an Insignia television.  Set up was a snap, under 30 minutes, except for the life of me I could not figure out how to properly configure the activities.

"Take A Meeting"

Posted Thu, 10/30/2008 - 20:40 by Chris

So I have started to hear a new phrase that bothers me a bit. The phrase is Take a Meeting. As in I'll take that meeting, or I couldn't pitch my idea because the management won't take our meeting.

Setting Up Cron Job for Drupal in Hostmonster

Posted Mon, 10/27/2008 - 16:41 by Chris

ProjectNashville.com utilizes Drupal as its content management system. In setting up the site, I went to start up the cron job. A quick search yielded the following:
1) Log into my Hostmonster cPanel interface.
2) Select Cron Jobs
3) Select Standard as your experience level.
4) Enter in
php -q /home/USERNAME/public_html/cron.php

So it turns out that there is one more qualifier. When you log into cPanel. Look on the left-hand side under Stats. Look for home directory. In my case, my home directory was /home2/USERNAME. So the proper syntax should have been:

Nashville Predator's Game

Posted Sun, 10/26/2008 - 00:00 by Chris

As I tweeted from the NHL Predators game, thousands of people showed up for a party and a hockey game broke out! I never had an interest in going to a Preds game until a neighbor of ours offered us seats to a game one Saturday afternoon. Within fifteen minutes of sitting down in our seats we were hooked. There is fast action in the rink, intense fans (a shout out to Section 303), and constant entertainment during intermissions and breaks in play.