Back in the Air

So I finally got my plane back into a flyable state. I reworked the front taking about half an inch off and then digging out a spot for the balsa to mount the motor on. I got her back in the air over at the nearby baseball diamonds which was some fun. The only problem is that the battery wore out sooner than I had wanted and I had to land quickly. No damage but the prop broke. Oh well, I have spares, but not another APC 9x6 which is what I use for the top end. I Put a 10x4.5 on today and took it to the back yard. This time when it got low I made a big turn, got a little close to a tree I think, and glided her in. A much nicer landing. So I decided now I'm going to do some navy blue and orange highlights with the Bears 'C' on it. Should look spiffy and I'll have to post the paint job when I finish. But the plane will still look a bit beat up, oh well. I mainly want the color to help tell direction and such, so I'm not too worried about that.

The last thing I kind of wanted to do to straighten her up is to get the tail elevator wing a bit straighter. I'll probably wait a few weeks though as that will be a bit of work, and I'm already doing enough around the house with a garden and doorbell and other some more electrical wiring. Fun fun.

Oh, yeah, the Soyo Dragon Motherboard I got from Microcenter about 2 years ago died. I think it was more due to the PSU failure, or maybe the MB went first and that killed the PSU. Anyways, we knew it was going as the onboard NIC was broke, but it's been really iff'y to boot lately. So we finally got a TV and I'll have to figure out what to do about the comp sometime soon. Maybe I'll finally grab some screaming machine. I think I just need MB, proc, ram and PCI card as the rest of what I got should work. Maybe a PSU too. The only exception would be if I go raid on it, but It'd have to have onboard raid V for it to be really nice, or I'd have to get back in to the habit of doing backups. Reminds me, I should move the other HD over and back up this comp.

Some more tech sweetness

So the other day I got into Delicious bookmarks. I use Firefox almost exclusively, as it blows IE out of the water. I'm tabbed browsing addicted and the last time I tried Opera it was kinda flaky for me on Linux. The only problem is, I have like 5 sets of bookmarks between work, home (1 on Linux and on Windows) and then again on the other comp. I used to sync the two linux preferences, but to do that to the work machine would be too cumbersome. So I used delicious. Anyways, my bookmarks are now online at

http://del.icio.us/rlzaleski

Now some people have talked about not wanting that to be private. Well I don't think I bookmark anything I don't care if people see on the internet. The more you talk about the technology behind cordless and cell phones. Between land lines and the internet, the more you just get the feeling at some point someone is going to be talking about you. The only real deal is to be ready to handle Identity theft and know your always out in public unless you shut the windows and don't use technology for a bit. So they are there, I tag something quite regularly.

The newest item on there I found yesterday which is on automatically ripping high quality AACs that I browsed to while waiting on a compile. I'm getting some clipping on some of my hip-hop, so I'm going to re-rip that and possibly all of my music in the near future to fix it. But for now I have a mod-podge of stuff. So I have it for at home even though I was at work when I found it. A great way to save state between work and home, kind of like newsgator, but more multipurpose.

That brings me to my default iPod sync software. I swapped over to iTunes from Amarok. Amarok is a pretty sweet player. I like it a lot. But a few things about it just make it a bit unusable to me. I can't really sync up my music well and sending 7 of 30 bible reading podcasts was a bit too much for it I guess. I really should wip out some Programming Kung Fu on it, but I seem to waste all my evening free time on WoW, or with the kids and doing house work. Oh well, WoW is my entertainment lately, and software has been work. I generally enjoy work, but I just haven't been pumped on it like before. I don't think I'd rather force myself to do anything else for 40 hours a week though.

BTW, my main is at lvl 48 on WoW. Not too shabby. I've been chasing one of my friends for weeks, and he's 3 lvls up on me still. If you play on Cenarion Circle, horde side, then pst Jekahn and say you read my blog.