The Infamous world of Rocky!

Time off and in preperation of baby Gian's arrival.

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:09:00 +0000

Im finally on vacation and can take some time off not only to rest, but to rap up all the loose ends around the house. Baby is due next thursday and I still need a bathroom to paint. Crib will not be assembled as my mother in law seems to be very superstitious about having the crib done before hand (I know i said the same thing your thinking). My business trip to New Jersey was a nightmare and a half. Between the snow and dealing with a very weird and condescending dr. that only seem to be the beginning of the nightmare trip I had in-store coming back home. I got held up in Newark Liberty with a domino effect of canceled flights. Im gonna say this flat out. Continental Airlines just suck.

Customer service was simply the worse I have ever experienced. Newark being one of their hubs didn't help to the cause either. the way they treat their customers Im surprised they even stay in business. I ended up sleeping in the airport after the captain decided to turn the the airplane around back to the terminal, the ice was to sleek and the airplane could not take off. I spent a total of 14 hours in the airport. Im going to enjoy the next three weeks being off and more so being with my son.

Marriott. My new home away from home.

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:37:00 +0000

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.

Canada. I will be there someday.

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:40:00 +0000

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.

Dog vs. Sesame street

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:37:00 +0000

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

iTab, Mac Tab, Magic Slate...? the rumors have begun.

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:23:00 +0000

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}

How to reset Airport Express Base Station

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:03:00 +0000

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.

Dell mini 10v Hacintosh.

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:48:00 +0000

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/

ATT, thieves or con artist?

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:38:00 +0000

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
-Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Airline status gone platinum.

saxline@gmail.com (Rocky Guido) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:20:00 +0000

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.

Travel Gear, Ready for the Internet nuclear War.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:42:00 +0000

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.

A Wedding inTampa

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:24:00 +0000

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.

Dentist appointment.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:26:00 +0000

A very well needed trip to the dentist was done today. I had been a while since I last had a deep cleaning, for almost a year and a half due to time availability (that's no excuse)I know. Dr. E is very good and was recommended to me by my wife's family. It helps that's she's not only a family fried but as well as their dentist for years. Some rads were taken
Which later determine that I had no periodontal disease. I'm set for a couple of follow up visits before I get my Ortho work done with her. This is going to bring me back some memories as a kid when I had braces., ahh, good times. Pictures later to come.

-- Posted from my iPhone

Booq mamba "saddle bag"=sexy!

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:27:00 +0000

My Booq mamba laptop bag finally made it's presence yesterday. I had been eyeing this thing for about a year now but just never got around to buy it. When I travel, I usually lug around my Macbook Pro 13" as well as my 8.9 Acer among hard drives, wireless cards etc etc. My other bag made by incase, made it very uncomfortable when I had to lug around both computers and accessories. I opt to finally buy the booq and it's all that in a bag of chips. This thing has such a slick design and definitely lots of cubic space inside. It has various departments to stow my cables and drives and surprisingly so it does not feel heavy. If your looking into a nice well design slick bag this is definitely a good choice.

-- Posted from my iPhone

Does she come with a mute button.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:11:00 +0000

I'm sitting in a plane with a great seat on my way back home. The guy at the end of the seat is keeping to himself with having nothing to say. Just him and his book. However, I can't seem to say re same for this retarded girl sitting next to me. Not only did she board late, but she has not stopped talking to her friend infront of me. This girl is standing up and just ordered two rounds of sky vodka for her and her friend. That's ok and all but she is everywhere and can't seem to shut it up! Not everyone wants to know how your relationship with your boyfriend is as strong as your drink or how your parents are struggling to sell the house. Maybe you should stop running your mouth and see what you can do to help them sell it.

To the girl who flew American Airlines flight 1999 and sat in seat 18b, thanks alot for being a fucktard.

-- Posted from my iPhone

Football Sunday/Blogpress

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:16:00 +0000

I'm posting this short article from the application blogpress. This is yet another form of me to communicate my short stories/daily chronicles and current events. I will publish this and hopefully by the time I hit done, this will reside in webpage. On another note, I'm sitting here in my living room awaiting for the dolphins game. I'm not much of a fan but I like to give the losers a try every time they play, will they prove us wrong this time or will they yet again maintain their usual losing streak tradition and have us say- "we'll get em next time boys. Kick off's at 8:00pm!

-- Posted from my iPhone

Business trip to Trinidad

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:20:00 +0000

So I was lucky enough to get the opportunity and go work in Trinidad. Through out the years I had heard so much about the Island but never thought in a million years I would visit this beautiful place. My initial reaction to when I first landed was (this place looks just like Barbados) not so much. Barbados is clearly more tropical and caters more to the tourist type crowd. Trinidad is a bit different. If you've ever had the opportunity to visit places like, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua etc..this is exactly the way Trinidad looks like. I stayed in a a great hotel called the Kapok, very accommodating. Breakfast was my favorite time of the day. I had a private elevator that would escort me directly in the middle of the 8th floor where breakfast was being served. Trinidadians’ are clearly hustlers. You find your local vendors in the streets and bartering is really big in the island. I drove a right-handed stick shift car in a left-handed road-this was very confusing to say the least. The nightlife in Trinidad is one like you will ever imagine. One thing is Carnival in February but the truth of the matter is that Trini's never stop partying all year around. I visited the famous St James Street and got to feast myself with one of the famous local Roti-authentic style. Tobago is definitely what you want to visit if you’re going to Trinidad.

Winblows 7 Ultimate "Cookie monster"

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:14:00 +0000

I was recently working on a project and noticed how my thumb drive was acting somewhat really funny. I kept seeing a Autostart.inf file as well as a Winlogon.exe file. This was really starting to irritate me as I could not initialize startup without having to go through the painful task of right clicking and opening everything. Not being at home I couldn't exactly run a proper virus scan. When I did finally run the scan i found a graybird/ trojan sitting in the back of the auto.inf file. Im not sure what it was phishing but i noticed i was getting some unusual mail traffic in the last few weeks. Funny thing is that every mail I would get was something that really spiked my interest. This trojan and bot-net that was living in my thumb drive was also sleeping dormant in my parallels partition. Ugh, no matter how much you try to evade the plague somehow it lives everywhere...

A war veteranas reality.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:29:00 +0000

I was on my way home and decide to stop by and get one of those 6" inch tasty subs from publix. While the deli lady was fixing my sub, I happened to turn back and saw this very older gentlemen rocking back and forth. I saw he was wearing an apron and was fixing up some slices of ham with cheese on a platter. I said to myself (there's no way this old gentleman is possibly working) and he was. I was so sadden to see Don working at such an age. I stood there for a couple of minutes and decided to engage in conversation with him. Don is 92 years of age and is a world war II veteran. His wife recently passed away and cant hardly afford his house payments, as he still owes his mortgage. Don gets limited medical covered through the VA and well he just needs money and at times somebody to talk to. To tell you the truth this broke my heart. Heres a guy that fought for our country and at his third stage in his life he should be at home watching the ball game and resting on his recliner. Instead, he's working at a publix trying to make ends meat. By the time Im eighty ill be lucky if social security is still around. This is clearly an eye opening for me that the government could care less about social health care in this country. While we spend more money sending troops to fight other countries war and not take care of our own business here at home, we will continue to have more Don's in a supermarket somewhere near you. Id like to see how many congressmen have their mothers and fathers working in the Deli department.

Meet kit, my new Ride.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:59:00 +0000

I finally have stayed long enough to go out and get a new Car. Im not sure what I had in mind but i wanted something sexy and with Raw power. Generally for the most part I have always been a mustang type of guy. I decided to change things up a bit and go with a more conservative look as well as a more grown up scale ride. I didn't want a lexus as everybody in miami has one. Then I passed by the Infiniti dealership and all it took was one look. The minute that i sat in the car I knew it was for me, it fit just like a glove. The beautiful beige leather interior it had inside complimented the sexy exterior as well. I was able to take this bad boy out for a spin, and although I Couldn't punch it the way I wanted of liked to, I felt the power the minute I would accelerate it. I walked out of the lot a very happy man. To bad my wife is going to be the one who's gonna get to enjoy it the most though. Sure beats driving a Crumby Mazda 6 right Karen =)

Happy Birthday to me!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:26:00 +0000

On a day like this thirty years ago I was born. Not sure what festive activities I will be partaking in today, but what I do know is that I'll spend it with my family and the ones I love. Texas de Brazil seems like a good candidate but we shall see if the weather permits it. Oh yeah' I'll have to get my sister something for her birthday as well and thats the hard part. what do you get your twin sister on her birthday?

Blackberry or the iphone, One love.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:26:00 +0000

Being the Apple lover and advocate that I am you would only assume that I only carry an iphone. Turns out my job forces me to carry a Blackberry as well. I don't mind the device but when I have to lug around two laptops two phones, hard drives etc etc it becomes somewhat of a pain in the neck! sure I can opt to just carry one phone as I currently get my corporate emails through my iphone but the blackberry messenger feature is very much needed. Why cant apple have a BB messenger feature or app developed by RIM. I understand its proprietary and exclusive to RIM but im sure apple can make a negotiating deal and allow apple to make an app that supports that. one can only wish small miracles like this could happen. Until then I will continue to carry both devices.

Half a lifetime or just simply thirty.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:50:00 +0000

As Im flying over the gulf coast from Dallas back to miami I realize I will nearly reach half my life term sometimes next wednesday. Im sitting out here looking at the clouds as Im listening to Alan Jackson's song "Remember when" WHat have I accomplished, what have I become who am I and where will I go next. The truth of the matter is that none of that really matter. I consider myself a good person, loving caring and all that mumbo jumbo good stuff everyone expects you to be. Im well goal oriented-a family man who lives for his soon to be wife and now god willing my unborn kid. So as it turns out I think you spend the first half of your life teaching, and educating yourself; essentially preparing yourself just to teach somebody else how to do those things all over gain. I mean i don't want to sound all philosophical on you here and all cause by far thats not my gig but think about it. I enjoy what I do carer wise and would not trade it in for anything in the world.

In my teen i dreamed about becoming a professional musician. Possibly the best one. I was heavily into Jazz, progressive jazz and bebop. Music is a very important part of my life. I breath and sleep it. Would i trade in what Im doing to play music 24 hours of the day? well the truth of the matter is yes. Want to hear something funny. I took a trip with my wife last week to the obstetrician and as the Dr was doing her sonogram and was showing us the fetus, my first immediately thought was "he looks like a sax player" Don't get me wrong, I would love for my child to become a musician and all but for no means will I become one of these parts who live out their dreams vicariously. I guess everyone has their own plans for their kids and the reality of things is just that their going to become their own person and develop their own unique identity. So why am i writing this blog? Because Im stuck in an airplane for three hours and Im venting like every other 29 year old man should as their turning thirty. ...No Im not. I realize Im all grown up and preparing myself for the next phase in life. Most of my friends by now have multiple kids and are in the stage of either being divorced or getting there shortly. I would not want that neither for me nor my wife or kid but Its scary that thats a possibility in life, or not. I like to think I have the advantage and a little bit of leverage just because I waited so long and didn't act on impulse that things should go smooth sailing from here on out. But like everything else in life nothing is certain.

What I do know is that I will try to become in my next thirty years better then what I was the last thirty. I need to. I promise to become a better man, help thy neighbor and occasionally give thy to the church. Being good is important in life, for I do believe in a little thing called karma. And have thirty years till it catches up to me.

Blogging has a new home and a new meaning.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:53:00 +0000

I decided since I had a little bit more of down time (then usual at least) to start my new blog spot on here. My friend and webmaster AlinS had gone through the trouble of switching over my blog into Word Press and as usual, I just wasn't feeling it. So Im back-and with a vengeance. Trying to stay in "Sync" hasn't ben all that easy (as far as blogging is concerned for that matter). With a busy travel schedule it got more of a -When I get the time i will do it routine. But who said bloggin should be a routing right? Precisely my point. It felt more like another job that I had to do rather than a cool and fun partaking project I wanted to share with the world and friends, etc etc. So heres to my new space on the web with new shiny MacBook Pro that I got for my birthday. Stay tuned for more.

P.S I have made a promise to myself to keep occupied while Im on the plane to do these pre-scheduled events. If all goes according to plan I should have ample time to kick these out with no problem. Stay tuned for my new upcoming project that Im working on. Until then....

Importing new blog into Blogger.

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Importing blogger interface settings test website onto New Domain.

27" Wide display, simply gorgeous

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:12:00 +0000

My 27" inch display finally came in and it is all of that and then some. I wanted another monitor but did not know which way to go. I wanted something big that would display true colors. The mac displays are nice and all but I also was not ready to spend three grand on a 31 inch display. So i went with dell, they had exactly what I was looking for and for a little less than half the price. This is a big change from the old samsung that the "Ex-factor" managed to snagged from me, Bitch. (hope you enjoy that by the way). I definitely recommend this monitor for anyone that wants true colors and possibly a small TV replacement, and for those of you that gaming is the only thing you do on the PC, this monitor will apply to you as well.