5/9/04 - I setup a weblog on my server today.  I would be lying if I said I am going to update it daily, however one will hope that I will update more than I have historically here.  The page is at http://www.hoyty.com/hoytyweblog/.  Let me know what you think.  Also added some pictures, some as far back as Xmas 03.

4/15/04 - Tax Day '04.  Well I actually updated something for once.  I updated my DVD list for the first time in almost a year.  Maybe this will inspire me to update more this weekend.

12/15/03 - More pictures.  I have added pictures of the new house and some pictures of Festivus '03.  Festivus was great this year we had 30 people come and 29 participate in the gift exchange.  One of the attendees was less than 1 and passed on the activities of the night, however he dealt with the craziness quite well.

11/2/03 - Two more pic pages. One with pics from Halloween and another with some work pics.

8/16/03 - I added another page with a few pics from the weekend I went to Wes's wedding and when my parent's visited.  Check it out here.

7/28/03 - The pictures are finally posted.  There are some videos there too.

7/24/03 - I have the story done and up, you can read it here.  I will put the pictures up tomorrow if I can hopefully remember the software to edit them.  I am forgetful as you might notice if you read the story.

7/23/03 - I am updating a few things tonight.  I wanted to update my games section.  I am working on an big update from my trip last weekend to go to Whitney's wedding.  There are some pictures and movies.  There is also a story of the fun that I had getting there.  Should be up tomorrow.

7/13/03 - I have put up a bunch of various pictures from the last few months.  Check out the pictures link on the side.  The most recent are from the Halo Event of last night.  The Halo night was pretty good, I learned some things to try to make it better for the next time, but overall it was fun.  Here is a quick commercial for it, ala MasterCard.  I also updated my movies list fairly recently as well if you wish to check it out.

4/6/03 - I should really update this more often I guess.  This time I updated almost every section.  As some of you know and others may not I have switched jobs recently.  I now work for a private K-12 all girls school on the north side of Baltimore city.  I also went through and fixed some of the links to my former companies that have basically evaporated.  Hey if you are out there and haven't said hi in a while drop a line.

11/10/02 - Big update to the movies section, and I even added a column that denotes what is new to this update for those looking for recent movies.  I also put up some pictures (well a lot of pictures actually) that Karen and I took.  We went to Skyline Drive and did some sight seeing.  Here is a link.

10/26/02 - I have put some pictures up of the new arcade machine which has arrived.

10/15/02 - Just wanted to put link to car pictures.

07/21/02 - Today I was going to put up some pictures.  The first is one from my recent vacation, it is of my first fish catch at least with photographic evidence.  The other page I am putting up is a photographic history of me.  I did this since I noticed how much heavier I had been at times in my life and I thought it would be an interesting look.  Check it out here.  Warning that page has many pictures and is quite scary.

06/30/02 - Hey an update will wonders never cease.  I was in the process of updating my DVD page and thought I might as well update this page too.  Well lets see what is new in the last six months, not much really.  Still living at the same place, still doing the same job.  Just watching the world go by I guess.  I am going to update some of the pages on here as well like stereo and computer stuff.

12/17/01 - Two updates in the same month, I must be ill.  Anyway just wanted to make quick update to DVD page.  My brother stopped by this weekend, basically he played Halo all day with a friend and beat it.  I beat it as well today, great game.  Now to spend some time on the GameCube.

12/8/01 - Lots of things in the last two months.  Most important to this page is it is being hosted on a new server.  You can check out the specs at the server page http://www.hoyty.com/server.  Also in the past few months my gaming choices have dramatically increased, I know own a GameCube and a X-Box.  So many games and so little time.  I updated the DVD list today as well to list all the DVD's in the past few months.  I will also update games, reading and computer sections.

Some other things that have happened is that I am now working in North of Baltimore a good deal, right now the plan is 3 days a week until May.  Since I am will be up there so much I have thankfully found a friend to stay with a few days week.  This is great since it is only a few miles/minutes from work as opposed to the 65 miles/90 minutes it would take one way from my place in Alexandria.  If you don't see me online as much that is where I am hiding.

Lastly, just in case you are reading Hi Wakkanne.  Also since I probably won't update again before the end of the year Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

10/3/01 - Updated the DVD list.

8/26/01 - I added some pics from recent trips.  These are from the Vegas trip and the trip to the Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0.  I am still recovering from sunburns I received that day.  I will try to make some more updates like to DVD page this week.

6/13/2001 - I got my new plates today, as you can tell by the banner.  In case that is too small for you here is a larger version of the plate.
Lets see what else interesting has happened lately.  Hmm, not much got some new DVD's and got new Dune game today.  Might actually replace Red Alert 2 as go to Multiplayer game.  Oh I also got a digital camera, so hopefully pictures will show up more often.  Especially for things like the Vegas trip in July.

5/7/2001 - Never finished what I wanted to last night.  Getting it done today, mostly DVD, computer and stereo.

5/6/2001 - Wow, long time no update Batman!  Anyway this update includes some pictures of my new place since some people don't believe how crowded it is.  I also updated my stereo page to include new equipment.  Lets see, updates to computer page and DVD page too.  Well I guess that just about covers everything.  Hopefully more updates will be done in the future.

1/27/2001 - Hi Ryan!  Had to be done.  One thing I forgot to mention and since I don't have any pics you wouldn't know, but in the first week of December I had LASIK eye surgery, specifically the LADAR version.  I now have 20/20 vision and no glasses.  Hey if there is anybody else out there who I knew in a former life/job and I haven't talked to you in a while drop me a line.  Also I wanted to put a link up to a great Christmas present I got - Hoytyland (this is pretty big.)

1/21/2001 - How is everyone doing, I am doing OK.  Almost done moving, and putting stuff away.  Hopefully I will have some pictures up of my new (crowded) place.  I updated my movie page with DVD's from Nov to now.

12/30/2000 - Well long time no update, lots of things have happened recently.  Thankfully I am not working this New Year's, actually get to relax for a few days.  I have now moved from my previous residence of 2 years or so to a new place.  Not too far away, if anyone wants new contact info just send me an e-mail.  I am about 95% moved in now.  Currently I am living my friend from high school (and beyond) Roger.

If you are reading this then the Internic updates have gone through.  In the process of moving I had to get a new DSL connection.  I now have 1.1 Megabit SDSL connection.  Hopefully I will now be able to do some more stuff with my server.  I will also be hosting pages for others as well now.

10/18/2000 - Today I went to the Exchange 2000 launch, and it was fun.  Just in case anybody from Microsoft Federal happens to read this it was nice seeing those of you I ran into and sorry I missed those I couldn't find (Toz).  It was really cool to catch up and see that all is well, hopefully I will catch up again soon.  I also updated my movies page with some recent additions.  Some of these were the two Jurassic Park movies, these two movies were one of the reasons I bought my DVD player in July of '97.  I have to say that it wasn't quite worth the wait but almost.  This week is another pair of A+ movies the two Toy Story's.  About the only other movies left that I want on DVD are the Star Wars films, Indiana Jones films and the Back to the Future films, then catalog material would be pretty much complete.

10/8/2000 - It has been a while since I updated.  One of the major reasons I am updating is to add some pictures of me with alternative hair.  I am also updating my computer page with my recent upgrades.

7/31/2000 - Well we know have both a cable modem and DSL.  Jerry and I use the cable modem for surfing 1500/192 and then the server sits on the IDSL 144/144 since it has static IPs.  You can check out the performance of or DSL at 216.254.85.10.

7/9/2000 - I updated my DVD page with my recent additions.  I also added some pictures, first to places I lived with pictures I took of the dorms at the U of I on a recent trip to Champaign for my friend's MBA graduation.  Then I added some to the general pictures page from various times.

6/20/2000 - I finally finished my last exam yesterday and I am know officially a MCSE+I.  The next challenge ahead is becoming a 2000 MCSE, although I have to wait for the tests to be released before I do that.  If you want to see what tests I have passed check it out here.

6/14/2000 - Well the server move appears to be complete.  If you want to see what the server is running and on what hardware go check out Server Config.  I will be hopefully doing more stuff with this page now since I completely control it.

6/11/2000 - If you are reading this you are seeing the new server.  More to follow.

5/25/2000 - Well I am finally back from Denver, for those who don't know I was in Denver working for Qwest from Feb 29-May 19 (came home a few weekends).  I am making a small update today with some more satellite photos of places I have lived.  I will also be adding pictures of places I lived while at the UofI once I get the pictures developed and scanned.  I will also have some pictures of friends from Denver and Illinois.  Also I will be updating the computer section with upgrades and my new server.

Lastly, our DSL finally got installed so as soon as I have new server built I will be moving hoyty.com to being hosted by me.  Hopefully it will all go smoothly.

Later,
Hoyty