General,HTC Droid Eris         2 comments

I purchase my HTC Droid Eris back in March (2010) and have been running the stock version firware (1.5) since then.  This morning I received an alert in my notification bar that a system upgrade was available.  The long awaited 2.1 version was ready to be downloaded.  I noticed that my battery life was at 60% and figured that should be enough to get me through it.  I was also fairly close to a Verizon tower so I knew my phone wouldn’t be struggling to find a signal.  Time to start the process.
The download only took about twenty minutes and the install took about fifteen.
As soon as you click install the phone goes black, and then an icon and status bar appears.  Once the first phase of the install is complete, a new icon appears showing that the new upgrade is installing into the phone.  After the second part of …

 Chat with Chimpie         5 comments

Today I’m launching a new section of my website called ‘Chat with Chimpie’. My hopes are to ask the questions that I think many of us have but don’t know how to go about getting the answers to.
My first interview is with Josh Banks, Support Manager and Josh Loe, Customer Service Manager of HostGator.  The interview is in response to the routing incident at ThePlanet on Monday (May 3, 2010).  Thousands of websites were affected.  Some sites appeared to be inaccessible while some end users were able to view them just fine.  Within moments of the router going down, Twitter and other forms of social media lit up with people screaming about their servers failing.    There were lots of misinformation being spread around, so I wanted to give HostGator, one of the hosting companies affected by the outage, a chance to explain what happened.
Early Monday morning there was a …

 General         1 comment

I know I haven’t updated you all with anything recently, but a new feature to the website will be coming very soon.
If you haven’t already, be sure to follow me on Twitter and Facebook. I always try to update those whenever I create a new blog entry.
www.twitter.com/chimpie76
www.facebook.com/chimpie
Thanks!
Chimpie

 General,Sarasota         No comments

Just a quick blog post to tell you about my Saturday.
On Saturday, April 17th I attended Sarasota’s 2010 Ecofest.  I went pretty early in the day but the street was already packed.  There were lots of vendors/sponsors telling us about their newest products.
I managed to take a few pictures before being engrossed by all the activities.  You can view them by going to our fan page.
There will be another Ecofest in Punta Gorda, Florida on April 24th from 10am to 6pm at Fisherman’s Village.
For more information check out Natural Awakenings Sarasota website.

 General,Tampa Bay Rays         No comments

From mlb.com…
NEW YORK — Jackie Robinson’s legacy will be memorialized again today at Major League Baseball parks across North America. From Yankee Stadium to Dodger Stadium, fans will celebrate the 63rd anniversary of Robinson breaking the color barrier.
For the second consecutive year, Commissioner Bud Selig has invited all players and uniformed personnel to wear the late Hall of Famer’s famous No. 42. That number was retired by decree of the Commissioner throughout baseball on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Robinson taking the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
What once was a voluntary gesture has now become standard fare on the day baseball remembers the great Robinson.
Click here to read the rest of the article at mlb.com.
This is an awesome tribute.
Tampa Bay has the night off, but I’ll be rooting for the Twins, Angels and White Sox tonight.  We can’t let …