Hernandez Life

Until late last week, if you wanted to use the potentially cable-TV-replacing video streaming service Joost, you had to have friends. But now anybody can watch Joost online from dusk until the dawn and beyond, because Beta 1.0 of the P2P (peer-to-peer) video service just hit the streets. The good news? The company’s just about gotten it right after umpteen betas, and it’s looking good. However, it remains to be seen whether Joost techies have figured out how to scale the network without crashing it.

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(Warning: Non-techies just skip this blog entry altogether.)

Here is version, oh let’s say… 2.1, of my website. Basically I’ve moved from hosting my website on .mac (Apple’s servers) to running it on a shared server at HostMonster. Besides going from 10 gigabytes disk storage to 300 gigs, this gives me much more control server side like, perl, PHP, mySQL, Linux Shell Access, CRON jobs and more. Read the rest of this entry »

You may have noticed you don’t see many (if any) photographs of Eva & Anthony’s kids, or any other children on this site. That was done intentionally. Now I’m setting up a new site/blog that can be a repository for the photo’s of children in our extended family and any other pictures we only want to share within our closed group.
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Garbage in, garbage out. Out with the old and in with the new. Our old website was boring getting dated so I wanted to try something new. Luckily Apple just came out with their new iLife series of programs which contains their new astounding website builder called iWeb.

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