I recently had to write a paper on how technology had/has an impact on me. The follow is like a short memoir on how it has.

Technology has impacted me tremendously; it is a huge part of my life now, and will be in the future. Starting back when my dad brought home a “Compaq Deskpro” with Windows 98 installed (which I still have), I knew PC’s were a part of me. It started with small command prompt keys and learning how to get shortcuts all in place — remember, this is back when I was in 4th grade. By the time I was in 6th grade I could work my way around a PC without a mouse, which I had to do at one point in my 6th grade class we managed to lose all the mouse trackballs! I was one of the few students that could say I can fix your PC, and the teachers would allow me to; back then the school’s didn’t have a tech guy to go to. With time, I learned more and more about the hardware of PC’s but it didn’t seem to intrigue me as much. Then I started getting into the software.

If you have the spare time at home and the tools to do it, why not try what the people over at MAXIM PC did. They managed to a Multitouch Computer using parts that me and you can easy get, and best of all they showed us how they did it. The video below is them running the test after they got it build.

As you can see a new theme is up and running, there are a few kinks in it but it is coming along. Apart from that a few updates that will occur is that “Video Wednesday” will be somewhat flipped around. As a way for me to get best use of this theme and have a “featured” video going on. I thought it would be great to update the upcoming “featured” video with a video done by me. This gives me more of an incentive to get my After Effect skills brushed up.

I know I know… I’m late but what counts is that I’m getting this done. This week I followed a new person in twitter. He posted a link to a playlist that he had on youtube.

For the next few weeks, I will not be able to keep the blog updated as much as I tried to have in the past few months. I will keep going with the weekly videos, I doubt that I will stop viewing youtube ever. I am working on either doing small update to this theme and in the future getting my own custom theme from scratch.