Thursday, January 26, 2012

Meet the Alibaba.com Robot at CES2012

Here is some Back Channel CES2012 goodness shot by yours truly. Enjoy a few moments with the Alibaba.com Robot


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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

So What Happened To HeadHardHat?

Live at the TPN.tv Booth
I have been getting some email inquiries as to where I have been hiding the past couple of weeks and thought I should surface and let you know what has been going on. Here is the short story.

I had an absolute blast at CES2012 in Las Vegas this year. I want to state that right off the bat because it really was one heck of an adventure. The first three quarters of it were just fine. Flew in on Saturday and worked all the way to Day Three of Five with nothing more than some sore feet and a blister or two. On Day Four which would be that Thursday I came down with a series of ailments all at the same time. For starters I had one heck of a migraine kick in the early morning. I didn't have any of my usual migraine medicine so I tried battling it with Advil. I was eventually able to even go on the air that day but you can tell that I was in a lot of pain. By late afternoon I started having some severe chills and felt what could have been the flu - oh goodie. By the time we wrapped up and made it to the hotel I collapsed in my room and basically slept all of Friday. I woke up enough to order some soup and toast and get up on Saturday to fly home, or so I thought.

Even though I felt slightly better I noticed my left leg looking like it had a bad sunburn from my ankle to my knee. On Saturday I figured I would just get home and deal with it then. My first leg of my flight to Raleigh was to get to Houston, TX. We waited on the plane for about 90 minutes and then found out that there was a major repair issue (something with the fuel intake) -oh goodie. So we had to 'deplane' and get on another flight. This of course made us all late for our collecting flights and for me meant a fun filled night in Houston. By the time I made it to the hotel I should have already been home. Heavy sigh. On Sunday I was finally on my way home and made it to Raleigh about four in the afternoon. I was exhausted and sick then slept until Monday.

Monday morning my leg was beet red and swollen. Went to the Urgent Care that immediately sent me to the hospital where they pumped me up with Antibiotics and was THIS close of admitting me right then and there. I had no fever or bad white count. I should have been a lot more sicker than I was (the flu symptoms were pretty much gone by Sunday) so I was sent home to stay off the leg and keep both eyes on it.
Houston we have a problem.


The rest of the week was a complete blur. Worked at home Tuesday, Wednesday. I barely recall trying to get into the Geocaching Podcast on Wednesday night but Talkshoe was not cooperating. Actually went to work on Thursday and Friday then immediately going to bed when I went home. Pretty much slept through the weekend and started feeling fairly human yesterday and today. So as you can see the past two weeks went whoosh and I don't recall much more than that. Hope this all makes sense.

I will be on Geocaching Podcast this Wednesday if the Talkshoe gremlins are smiling. As far as Geocaching World goes we are switching to our Spring Schedule and moving to Tuesday nights. So Tuesday January 31st, 2012 at 6:30PM we will be getting the show rolling once again.

Hope this explains where I have been which is mostly sleeping and why I have been so quiet. Being comatose tends to do that. If you have any comments or questions please let me know. I will be uploading my CES2012 videos over the next couple of weeks at TPN.tv. Be sure to check out all the amazing interviews and back-roll we took. Thanks for the well wishes!

-HHH


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Friday, January 20, 2012

RVNN.TV now in the Roku Channel Store!

RVNN.TV now in the Roku Channel Store!

What was the coolest announcement during the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2012?



The official acceptance of RVNN.TV into the Roku Channel store.

RVNN.TV significantly boosts distribution and reach of its recreational vehicle focused internet television network with release of a dedicated RVNN.TV channel on the Roku streaming video player. The Roku displays internet-delivered television and games such as Angry Birds on consumer flat screen TV’s, and is the #1 selling Internet Television set-top box. Viewers in over three million homes that own Roku players can now lean back and enjoy over a dozen RV business and lifestyle shows from RVNN.TV via high-speed internet on their home TV set.
FYI - Just since we had our pre-announcement a week ago we already have thousands of new subscribers. Don't miss out and load in RVNN.TV into your Roku.

If you have any comments or questions about RVNN.TV and Roku please be sure to email us at geocache@rvnn.tv for more information.


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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Helping With Production at the TPN.tv Booth. #CES #CES2012

Having fun doing some production work before going back on the floor and in front of the camera later today.

Tons of People Here At CES 2012 #CES #CES2012 TPN.tv

Just wall to wall people at CES. Be sure to see all of the TPN.tv live goodness right now!

Todd, Andy, Jeff And Some Of The Early Crew For CES2012

CES2012 starts today and some of the early crew is shown here getting some well needed food before the craziness begins. Be sure to watch all the Tech Podcast Network goodness on TPN.tv all week. We are live and bringing everything tech to you.

Good Morning Las Vegas! #CES2012 #CES

CES Starts Today. Be sure to stay on TPN.tv for all the techie goodness. Plus check out the back channel for great behind the scenes fun.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

My First TPN.tv Interview

Did the interview with one of the lead developers for Cadillac Cue which will be seen at CES2012.

Behind the Scenes CES2012 TPN.tv #CES #CES2012

Sunday morning getting finishing touches for the Tech Podcast Network booth. You can get all the up to date and live feeds from http://TPN.tv.

At Houston Airport Heading For CES2012 In Las Vegas.

The flight in was fine, early but fine. Now to my next flight to Las Vegas and CES2012.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Behind The Scenes: Geocaching World (RVNN) Pre CES2012 Episode

Tonight's episode of Geocaching World (RVNN.tv) was everything CES 2012 (Consumer Electronics Show). That's right, myself (HeadHardHat), Courtney Wallin and Managing Director Andy McCaskey are heading for Las Vegas to be smack dab in the middle of this amazing event. We will not be alone amoungst all the gizmos and neon. There will be a team of about 18 individuals putting together the TPN.tv broadcasting epic.

The TechPodcast Network is lead by Todd Cochrane, Andy McCaskey and Jeffrey Powers with a host of junior talent (like Courtney and myself) plus support and production crew. Not only will we all be doing live interviews with hundreds of exhibitors at the TPN booth but also interviews and commentaries from all over the convention center and beyond. Many of us will be arriving on Saturday and then we go through all sorts of challenges as we go through pre show activities, building the TPN booth itself and also prepare everything for CES when it opens it's doors on Tuesday. That is a lot of prep-work.

Tonight's episode we presented some backroll video showing Andy and Courtney preparing to leave the RVNN.tv studios before heading for Vegas and I went over a top ten list of items I will like to investigate while at CES 2012. For all the great discussion and details you will need to see tonight's episode when it is released into the wild in the next few days.

Also if you want to keep up with just about everything that is going on during CES 2012 be sure to watch the TPN.tv website here: http://tpn.tv/ and you can also watch some of my personal behind the scenes by watching my Obsessed blog here: http://headhardhat-geocache.blogspot.com/

Stay tuned.. much more to come starting Saturday.

P.S. I want to thank all the fans and viewers that visited us in the chat room while we recorded the show. It is always so great having you there. Thanks for being there.

-HHH

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Behind The Scenes: Geocaching Podcast Ep. 234 January Cacher Coffee

Wow, here we are in 2012 and we started this year with a really great show tonight on the Geocaching Podcast. This episode was our Cacher Coffee which is kind of a laid back chit chat between XpunkX, Darrylw4 and myself HeadHardHat with help of our listeners in the chat room and a Google plus hang out.

Tonight's episode dealt with several key discussions which became the show. First after our general banter we went right into what turned out to be an important issue for XpunkX in regard to geocaching log deletion. I was rather surprised with the circumstances for this situation and the following discussion that ensued.

Next among several topics was a discussion from Darrylw4 in regards to filling out your geocaching day calendar. More specifically with the semi-rare opportunity of finding a geocache on February 29th. Another great discussion which included our chat room came from that.

Another key discussion area touched Geocaching.com's removal of the word Munzee from all geocache description pages and what does this really mean with any type of advertisement like content.

We did finally do the Badelf drawing... You are just going to have to listen to our Geocaching Podcast episode when it comes out in a day or two. Be sure to stay tuned.

We record the Geocaching Podcast each and every week on Wednesdays at 9:30pm EST. The recorded episode for this week will be available any time now via iTunes and the Geocaching Podcast website.

See you next week!

-HHH

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