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OK, that was easy.  click click upgrade done.

Been a while since I upgraded something so I spent some time friday evening (wooo the excitment) upgraded my ESXi 3.5 system to the 4.0 release.  The upgrade was pretty easy and straight-forward with the instructions on vm-help.com.  Fortunately, VMWare makes the vSphere client and updata utility an easy download now so you can skip the steps about manually extracting it from the ESXi 4.0 upgrade file before starting.  Remember to backup your virtual machines just to be on the safe side.

The next upgrades now will be Wordpress 2.8 (easy!) and upgrade to Fedora 11 (not too hard).  Stay tuned!

It’s the last night before Eva comes home so I figured I need to make my last “bachelor’s” meal.  Something that is so special that you can only make it when nobody else is around – either due to not wanting to share or utter embarrassment.  I feel somewhere between the two.  So what to have for dinner…

BBQ – check
Hamburger – check
Cheese – check
Bacon – check

Time to make a cheeseburger like never before!

1. Gather ingredients.  Today I will be using two Costco hamburger patties, Kraft cheese singles, blue cheese, Kraft shredded Tex-mex cheese and a bun.  The bacon isn’t in the picture.

2. Add a Kraft cheese single and blue cheese to one patty.

3. Top with Kraft shredded Tex Mex and another single.

4. Add second patty and form patties in to one.

5. Ready to grill!

6. Grab two strips of bacon and cook the burger and bacon on a low heat for a while.

7. Cook until the beef is well-done through out.  There’s so much cheese that the burger sprung a cheese-leak but it looks good!

8. Add your favourite toppings.

9. Enjoy the cheesiest cheese burger you’ll ever have!

Haven’t had much to post lately – obviously.  I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter and enjoying some of the short, yet useful, 140 character or less nuggets of information that go by.  It’s a neat little service and I do enjoy using it but it’s hard to say what the future holds for it as another social networking/information exchange website.  Please feel free to follow me on twitter or enjoy my updates on the sidebar of this web site.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks and haven’t had much time for blogging.  Twitter has been interesting as a micro-blogging service.  It’s kinda like just seeing all your Facebook friend’s statuses without the noise of the “what blah blah blah are you” quizes.  So yeah, pretty cool service which is improved if you do a lot of SMS on your mobile phone – which I don’t.  I’ve been useding TweetDeck which has been a nice little desktop app to maker twittering a better experience.

Off to finish up a couple thing so check back later for more updates!

I’ve succumbed to the hyper over Twitter.  Everyone talks about it like it is the next big thing but I don’t see the big deal over micro-blogs – perhaps I’ll be proven wrong though.  I’ve done some integrationg between Twitter and Wordpress so we’ll see what neat things I can come up with.  Maybe there is some Mediaportal plug-in that would tweet what movie I’m watching…

I can’t believe how nice it is outside!  +18c right now!  After months of it being more than 40 degrees less, this is a well deserved change!  A little time outside doing house/yard work, time walking the dogs and time bbq’ing is taking away from all my upgrades.  What kind of nerd am I if I’m not spending my summer indoors?  Just have to wait a little until Hillock…

To keep the upgrade theme going, now that my old Windows server is free, I’ll be rebuilding that Dell P4-1.5Ghz system as a newer MediaPortal system.  I’ve been running an old version of MediaPortal (but it was current at the time!) for well over a year now.  It has been the best addition to my home theatre centre ever!  Currently, it is running on an 8+ year old P3-1000 system that used to be my main computer many years ago and then was Eva’s main computer until she got her iMac.  It has been doing well for MediaPortal but the time has come to update the software and add a little more horsepower to the system as well so that I can run some newer plug-ins like Moving Pictures which are more graphically rich than most plug-ins.  Hopefully with the extra horsepower, I can get back in to building my MAME system for home.  The P3-1000 system didn’t quite cut it for running MAME and handling the Bluetooth Wii remote controllers.