Archive for September, 2008
I am sitting in my neighbors house right now sucking some juice from there generator as my house is now sitting 6 days without power. I have some power lines down in my backyard right now, but are very blessed to only have that as the extent of my damage at my house. Allot of people in the Houston area were not that lucky from Hurricane Ike.
After going 6 days and counting without electricity, I begin to appreciate how important it is. Electricity unlike Internet or Cable is not something that you want to switch around or get a better feature, it only works or doesn’t in this case.
This past week has been a odd week, I have been working at my parents house, which only 2 miles away does have electricity or at my fiance Lauren’s house, which also has electricity. We have also made a trip up to college station a number of times where Jon and a team of employees are working full time keeping things rolling here at E2. So ya, it has been allot of chaos, allot of uncertainty in our work hours, but number one, we never went offline in a major storm!!!
As hurricane IKE is now only a few hours away eleven2 has taken every precaution necessary! If you did not receive the email update from Rodney feel free to check it out in our forum. I thought I would just blog and assure you that eleven2 is still very much functioning, I am taking shelter north west of Houston in The Woodlands TX. I thought I would show you some of the cool things that allow me to track the storm, and still work efficiently.
- Apple iMac
This is the computer I work off of on a daily basis at the eleven2 head quarters. This extreamly powerful yet very easily transported computer has allowed me to pack up my work gear with relative ease and set up here where I am taking shelter. - Spaces
With the release of apple’s most powerful operating system “Leopard” came the handy feature of Spaces. This allows me to have as many as 16 virtual desktops. This allows me to work with multiple windows, multiple applications in a clutter free desktop! - Storm Pulse
This is the website that I am using to monitor the path of the storm. This is by far the coolest weather interface I have seen online. - iPhone
Well we all know how awesome the iPhone is but it is going to be my most essential tool of communication if I experience any power outages.
Please only submit Critical issue during this time. Thanks for all your support while we work through this storm!