I've been staying for the last two years in all Inclusive Hilton properties. I have managed to rack in total (without ever using points per stay) about a total of 277,000 points. In recent conversations with a colleague of mine, he asked if I ever gave Marriott a try. I have stayed maybe a couple of times but didn't see what all the grip was about. I've chosen to this year give my new home away from home a new design. Best part of it all is that I didn't have to pay a single cent to grab new furniture or paint the walls!

Im staying at a Marriott property right now. In fact, thats where Im creating this blog from. I truly can say and be one of the ones to attest that Marriott has far superior services than Hilton. I couldn't believe it! One thing that strikes me right of the back is how Modern and ubber geeky atmosphere their creating. The rumor is by 2011 they have turn around more than 80% of all their hotel properties to the new and design look and feel. Marriott has this new bistro where you can grab great breakfast and happy hour starts at 5:00pm till 10:00pm.

Their definitely catering as well to the business traveler. They understand the need and demand of certain things like for example. The Computers with printers right by the hotel (their calling those the Ticket airline stations) Then they got the OLED big screen where you can touch for on demand news, traffic, weather and of course CNN. Im very impressed with the new look and happy I made the right decision right at the beginning of the year. Heres to happier and new times from my a Marriott resort my new work /home sponsored crib.

I was privileged enough to recently visit Ottawa, Canada on my latest business trip. For quite some time now (twenty years to be exact) I have been talking about how I would like to go to this wonderful country. Having family there, I have heard nothing but great stuff and the privileges that come by being a Canadian citizen. From the minute that I got off the plane I felt a sense of respect and humbleness, and at the same time I felt at home. Canadian are very much so polite individuals. I checked into my hotel and The front desk concierge spoke three languages; yes three languages.

The next morning as I walked through the streets of Ottawa, I literally lost count of how many times I heard good morning and good day. It’s little things like this that tickle my fancy. The city is also really clean and organized in such a way-from the airport to the department stores. I really came back with a positive note and a new mind set in potential living terms. Canada I would say is definitely within my next twenty year margin as one of the possible cities that I would relocate my family to. I’d say its probably a good place to raise kids as well. Im going home today and plant the seed to my wife and hopefully she takes a small interest to the possible Idea of us moving there in the near future. After all, I have twenty years to convince her eh.

Heres a video of my dog that I quickly put together. He's now eight months old and tripled in size.

Another week, another day, another round of tablet rumors for the now all-but-confirmed January event. The latest news bouncing around the Inter-webs is that Apple has placed an order with panel supplier Innolux for a bevy of 10" touch panels to stick in the new devices, be they called iSlate or whatever the marketing team eventually hits on the dart board. This vibes with what we'd heard earlier about the screen being either 7 or 10" in the diagonal, and it reveals a little bit more about the process: apparently Apple wanted to go with this release earlier, but they were concerned about the strength of the glass. Now they've got the stronger glass they need, so supposedly the rumors on the wind say they're ready for a January announcement, with a release coming in March or April. They've even got another supplier lined up to crank out even more of these screens if needed.

A translated WSJ article also says a Taiwanese company called Chang Uei Precision has been signed up to provide "connectors" for the device, but that sounds quite vague and they say a release isn't planned until Q3 of next year.

As always, this all remains hearsay -- Apple hasn't even officially announced an event in January yet, much less hinted that they'll be releasing a revolutionary tablet-style device. So remember what Grandma said about counting chickens before they hatch, and don't. But if any of these rumors prove to be true, it'll be an interesting 2010.

{Courtesy of TUAW}

Soft Reset

With the AirPort Express plugged into a power outlet, launch the Network System preference and choose AirPort from the Show pop-up menu. Click the TCP/IP tab and choose Using DHCP from the Configure pop-up menu. Press and hold the device's reset button for 1 second. The light will flash yellow and you'll have five minutes to make changes before the AirPort Express reverts to its previously saved configuration.

Hard Reset
With the AirPort Express plugged into power, press and hold the device's reset button for 10 seconds. A green light will flash for a bit and then the device will reset itself — a process that takes about 45 seconds. Once reset, you can configure it with the AirPort Express Assistant or the AirPort Admin Utility.

Factory Default
Unplug the AirPort Express from the power outlet and press and hold the reset button. While still holding down the reset button, plug the device into a power outlet. Hold down the reset button until you see the light flash green four times. Let go of the button and the device will reset itself. Wait the requisite 45 seconds and configure it with the AirPort Express Assistant or AirPort Admin Utility.

Boy was this a long one in the making. I recently got an opportunity to perform a successful hackintosh. I have an Acer one aspire that I cloned to function as my corporate computer. This was only decided shortly after I was unsuccessful to hackintosh it. I felt really bummed out after I failed to read the destruction to the particular wireless card that it needed. Today I woke up as a determined man. I got my hands on a Dell mini 10 (by the way, This is the most compatible computer to use in order to do this successfully) and began the eventful painstaking process. There are lots of tutorials explaining on how to go about this process so there's a lot of material out there specially here mydellmini.com. If you are able to follow specific guided destructions I'll post the link and article of what you"ll need step by step to undergo your brand new hackintosh experiment and add it to your group family computer.

Here's how and what you'll need.

http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/

Monday morning- while I'm relaxing at home, AT&T decided to throw in their collections team at me due to a balance they said I had accrued. To give you a synopsis of what has been going on, I was an AT&T customer for four long years. Shortly after my third year, I decided to throw in another line for my mother. I travel a lot and consequently I have some particular bills on automatic debit withdraw, big mistake right? Turns out I had been paying (for several months) ridiculous amounts of up to sometimes $300 dollars worth of cell phone bill. Freaking ridiculous and absurd. After several months of taking it and being treated like I was taken advantage off, I took my business somewhere else. Well, to say the least AT&T with severe scrutiny surrounding them did not like my move.

I contacted them several times to dispute my ongoing astronomical phone bills however they didn't seem to think I had a valid point! Gee, I wonder why. So I grabbed an attorney. Little did Ms Vianne know that she had another thing coming to her. One day all AT&T iPhone customers will have a choice to have the iPhone with a different wireless carrier. Until then you have enough
time to keep screwing more valued customers. Your day will come. In the mean time, Keep screwing other customers
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Good god was I waiting for this one to ever happen. This year has been extremely busy for me. I fly a lot but never seemed to keep a steady rhythm with one single airline. I several trips to South America this year with American and well they bumped me up really quick. At the beginning of the year I started off with Gold status and now I have reached more than 60 segments, thus putting over the top at Platinum tear status. This definitely has its perks and advantages. I make no lines, get bumped up to first class more often than usual and well-traveling is just simply more comfortable. Im going to enjoy flying from now.

I get asked alot "Rocky, What kind of gear do you travel with when your out? Then I have to start mentioning the computers I carry, why two? Why I pick some items over other and so on. I figured I was long over due for this one and it needed a well deserving blog post. As you may know, I travel extensively for my company. I Work with computers and need to stay connected at all times (I’m pretty much my own ambulatory office) My preference of Choice for computers have always been Macs. I travel with a 13" Macbook Pro (decked out). This thing is fully upgraded with a 320gig hard drive and six gigs of RAM.

I get most of my corporate emails on both of my machines and Blackberry but mostly I carry it as a preference thing. I can very well get my emails on my Acer windows machine however; I don’t have the RAW power of a computer with this as I have with my Mac. I also carry around a net book Acer Aspire One. I use my machine mainly for email purposes and to log into the backbones VPN. Although I could do this on the Mac, sometimes I have to carry my computer from rooms to room for key authentications and well, the Acer PC is only 2 pounds Vs the Mac book Pro 8 pounds. For camera, I use a Cannon 8.2 Megapixel. Its not the best in the industry but it takes good shots and it does the trick.

For camcorders I use a Sony Handy Cam. This thing is so badass. It’s lightweight, slick and elegant. The fact that it has a 4 gig internal memory and also an expandable SD card memory slot, gives the icing to the cake. For portable Internet services I carry a USB connect wifi card from At&t. its 3G is ok for surfing the web and picking up emails but I’m currently looking to replace this device with a mifi from Verizon. I’m hearing lots of good reviews toward the product and the speeds are actually not bad. With Verizon upgrading their network to the 4G technology by the Q1 next year, I want to be ahead of the game and give it a shot.

Weddings can either turn out being a very fun event or a very dreadful one at that. One of my cousin's got married this last weekend. She grew up along with me and my sister. We are pretty much the oldest cousins out of all my dads brothers and sisters. We headed out to Tampa, Fl for this unique special day of hers. I saw a lot of family members I had not seen in ages and some I didn't quite care to see. It's funny when you haven't seen a group of person in ages and all of the sudden you see them and starts speculating to make up for the rest of their lives, It's like you start putting pieces of a puzzle for this persons life with very limited information (kinda freaky but fun never the less) My Cousin looked very pretty and actually made a really good couple with her now husband Paul. I remember when we all use to play at the playground, chase each other down the blocks and now were sitting her presence for one of the biggest day of her life. Great day in history and in the family to say the least.