Jeremy Phillips

If you click the image to see the higher resolution you can see that this panel has HDMI, VGA and composite inputs. It’s built into the desk and by following the cables I found that they all pass through to the flat panel TV in the room.

I don’t have an HDMI or VGA cable with me and could not locate a store that sold either one so I didn’t get to try it out unfortunately. I’m definitely going to be picking up a VGA and HDMI cable to carry around with me going forward.

I walked around Jersey City some more last night and found it to be a very nice city with some spectacular views along the Hudson river. The merchant ship’s propeller was huge, taller than me in fact. I took the picture of the Jersey City Fire Department boat for my son, who is usually pretty interested in that type of thing.

For dinner I found a small deli on a side street, where I had a fantastic steak burrito, macaroni salad and chocolate pudding for dessert.

Some pictures of my current trip to Jersey City, NJ. The first three are the view from my room on the 22nd floor of The Westin. The rest are from my recent walk around town before dinner. This has been a good trip so far!

I’ve been playing around with Wakerupper.com lately and it definitely rocks. Free wake-up calls and telephone reminders via text-to-speech? How cool is that… Definitely useful for those who are time-zone hopping.

Just broke through 100k miles on FlightMemory!

This was really cool to see. This guy is absolutely amazing.

That’s how much I’ve got entered in My FlightMemory so far. I know there are many more flights, just have to find them all somehow.

I’ve been neglecting posting these but I’ve been taking more and more View From Here pictures.

Taken October 12, 2007 – DFW Gate E11

A horrible picture of SEA Gate C20 taken October 28, 2007

Taken October 31, 2007 – Toronto, Ontario Holiday Inn Room 1603

I just finished up five straight weeks of travel – 21,6o8 air miles – to finally have a break at home for two weeks. I’ve got a combination of remote and local work this week but I’m taking next week off to be home with Tori & Ryan during their birthdays. With the amount I travel, I think that it’s very important to be home with them.

I’ve got quite a bit to do around the house the next two weeks as well. I just finished rebuilding my rack and started creating my bat cave on one side of the garage. I’m going to spend some time today and tomorrow to getting everything hooked back up and begin The Running of The Cable. Luckily, my office is a 20ft run directly above the garage, the rec room is about a 35ft run directly beside the garage and the living room is about a 50ft run up and to the left of the garage so The Running of The Cable should not be a huge job. Eventually I’ll have to run drops to all the bedrooms but that’s not an immediate need and can probably be put off until the spring without issues. I’m really not looking forward to rummaging through the attic and meeting all our friendly household spiders for those runs and may just run them outside the house.

After I get the Cat5 drops run I’ll be putting in a trixbox Pro based PBX I will be starting to distribute the Polycom Soundpoint IP 501 phones that I currently have around the house. One in the bat cave, one in the office, one in the rec room and one in the living room will make for a nice start. Once I get the drops run to the bedrooms, I’ll be putting one in our bedroom as well.

I’ve also got to get my DC/Exchange/File Server back up and running. After dropping the domain and getting the files off of it, it’s getting rebuilt with Debian running VMware Server so I can separate out services a little easier. It’s a beefy box with dual Xeon 2.0G, 2GB of RAM, and 4×320GB on a 3ware Escalade RAID controller so it shouldn’t have an issue aside from RAM, but I’ll just drop another 2GB in it eventually.

That’s it for this update to Jeremy In Motion. Thanks for reading!

What I was thinking when I decided to stay here, I shall never know. This place redefines the term ‘Horrid’. /sigh/ The WiFi, as slow as it is, drops every 15 minutes. I’m about to resort to my Sprint EV-DO card, even though it’s only 1X coverage. The really sad part? This is the second time I have stayed here.