big week

A very busy week that has so far turned out very good.
In addition to the normal life stuff, I did a ton of zipping around trying to grow our little business. I'm trying to get more use of our Loader product, save XP machines from landfills, and get another software developer.

Demo "Loader" to local computer shop.
This went really well despite more poor preparedness. I managed to lose my flash drive (boot media) in the last 10 minutes before I went out the door. I searched frantically, then built up a new usb flash drive. When I got to the computer (repair) store, they had DHCP so I demoed an XP install on my Dell Mini 9. They were interested in trying it on a computer on the bench. When it worked flawlessly except for missing one driver they were impressed; basically, "we've got to have it!" Not alot of money involved, but we have to start somewhere and they are willing to work through bugs.

Hiring a third.
We've been wanting to do this far a long time. I've had my eyes set on an unnamed person and we finally have enough stability that I feel comfortable asking this person to join us. Crossing fingers.

XBMC Demo.
I went to the ISLUG meeting this week. It got off to a slow start. I was 10 minutes late and there was one other person. I expected them to already be ooowing and aaahing over XBMC, but it took at least another 1/2 hour for that to happen. Joshua Clark has posted a bit on the ISLUG site. It will likely replace my Freevo setup that I have had for 7 years.

Demo "Loader" to ERGS.
My family and I went to Salt Lake City today (Saturday). Our plan was to go to the Zoo, then Electroregeneration Society, then the Discovery Museum, then somewhere fun for dinner - The Maya . It ended up very different. We arrived at the Zoo quite late with wind and rain following us there - so we skipped that. We took care of some family wardrobe malfunctions at Walmart. Then what... We decided to go to the Gateway mall, ate at Applebee's, and my mom and I walked to ERGS while my wife and kids checked out build-a-bear etc and went to the Discovery Museum without us.
ERGS, was great! I had a good time talking with Jerry. Learning about their operation. I really hope we can get something like it fired up in Pocatello and Idaho Falls. I'll post more on this later.
Showing off the Loader was fun and worked great on a random box we grabbed. I'm very close to all the details with it so I enjoy explaining and answering questions. Jerry liked it, we will talk more about how they can implement it there. We will donate use of it to them -- to get things rolling.