http://www.wesleyevans.net A healthy dose of technology, pizza, and beer... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:43:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It saddened me greatly to hear about the recent shootings at Virginia Tech. The New York Times put up an excellent page to help remember the victims. Please visit this page and take a few minutes with me to remember those who lost their lives needlessly and pray for their ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2007/04/19/remember-the-victims/ This past Friday, we went to see Journey to Skye: The Scottish Festival at the Toyota Center. It's a Scottish music and dance show featuring the current and five-time Juvenile World Champion St. Thomas' Pipe Band. Now, I'm not normally one to go to see a bagpipe concert, but I'll ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2007/03/19/if-its-not-scottish-its-crap/ When I went home last Christmas, my mom told me about some papers they found detailing my grandfather's (who passed away when I was very young) first-hand account of the sinking of the ship he was on in WWII. He was a Captain in the US Army Veterinary Corps, and ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2007/03/05/the-history-channel-up-close/ This past weekend, a tornado hit my parents' neighborhood. Fortunately, my family is fine and they had no damage, but many other people in the area were not so lucky. It's just scary when a storm, even on such a small scale, can hit so fiercely that close to home. ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2007/02/26/theres-no-place-like-home/ I went to two Astros games this weekend to watch them sweep the Cardinals! Although I had standing room only tickets for the Sunday game, it was worth it to see what could be Roger Clemens' last game at Minute Maid Park. But after last night's win, Houston is within ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2006/09/27/go-astros/ I have written a SHOUTcast Sidebar Widget for WordPress and have made it available for download. You can see it in action on the sidebar. It only requires the URL of the SHOUTcast server to get started, and is fully customizable through HTML templates. Try it out and let me ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2006/08/28/shoutcast-sidebar-widget/ Last Friday, just as I was getting ready to leave work, I starting coming down with a fever. (Why couldn't this happen on a Monday instead?) Well, I was in bed most of the weekend, and I'm just now starting to feel 100%. I even had to miss the free ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2006/08/02/its-no-fun-being-sick/ My sister Pam just got married today! Congratulations to you and your new husband Dave. I wish you both many years of happiness. You can find the pictures and videos I took here. http://www.wesleyevans.net/2006/05/13/congratulations-pam-dave/ The results from the Rod Ryan Morning Wood Derby are in! My "Nullified.Net" car finished 45th out of 81 racers with an average time of 2.646 seconds per race. I know, 45th isn't great and my car wasn't exactly the best thing to look at. I just didn't start building ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2006/02/22/go-speed-racer-go/ Wow, 2006 is here already! I've been off from work for about 3 weeks now for my Christmas vacation so I've been dreading coming back to work today. What did I accomplish in my time off? Well, I learned that deer burgers taste pretty darn good! I learned that making ... http://www.wesleyevans.net/2006/01/03/what-i-did-on-my-christmas-vacation/