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IColor Accents at Hush Night Club

Jan 5, 2011 by Paul White

When discussing the light and sound setup at Hush NightClub with Dan Deschamps, I was kind of shocked to hear the millions they spent on Lighting.  After some research its easy to see where a lot of this money went.  IColor Accents.  They had several hundred of these mounted on a truss.  To put this into perspective the retail on these is around $482 per 2 foot segiment.  Keep in mind Hush was built back in 2004, and these probably cost even more back then.

Hottest New Years Eve Houston Party 2010 2011

Dec 14, 2010 by Paul White

If you want to celebrate the New Year like a rockstar, then you might want to consider the Desirous Party Houston New Years Eve Party at the Ritz.  On this special night the Ritz is kicking out the Strippers, and letting Desirous Party take over the entire club ( VIP and all ).  Full event details inside

Everything you every wanted to know about Hush NightClub

Dec 8, 2010 by Paul White

I got the chance to sit down with Dan DesChamps and ask him some questions about Hush.  Dan and Kevin were the original founder and owner of the nightclub in 2004.  Here are some of the questions I asked with his answers.

Why do I need life insurance

Dec 7, 2010 by Paul White

Think you dont need life insurance if you dont have kids? Think again. It may seem like an unnecessary expense. But there are many reasons to have life insurance, even if youre not supporting a family.  Even if you are not married, life insurance tells your significant other that you want to make sure they are taken care of.

upgrading Mighty Scan Intelligent Lighting to LED Bulbs

Dec 2, 2010 by Paul White

One of the more recent ongoing projects I have been working on is overhauling the Ritz Cabaret's Light Show.  This includes moving fixtures, finding and buying used fixtures off ebay, replacing bulbs, and programming everything to sync together with Martin Light Jockey.  However when you have 30 Intelligent Lighting fixtures that all take a 250 watt halogen bulb, you quickly do the math and realized that the Ritz Cabaret is spending a small fortune all to ensure its dancers look good on stage.  My goal was to upgrade all our fixtures to LED bulbs.  This is my story.

Dignified Life Mortgage Protection Insurance

Nov 29, 2010 by Paul White

Recently I got into a discussion with Dan DeChamps of Dignified Life over the reasons a person might need Mortgage Protection Insurance.  If you have a mortgage and you don't plan on paying it off anytime soon, you might want to seriously give Mortgage Protection some thought.

SSD RAID 0 Benchmarks for Intel ICH10R ASUS P6T Deluxe

Nov 19, 2010 by Paul White

So I finally have made the move to SSD.  Unlike many who went with a single SSD drive I went with an SSD raid 0 Array.  Using 3 OCZ Vertex 2 60 GB SSD drives, I setup a RAID 0 array on my ASUS P6T Deluxe Motherboard's built in Intel ICH10R SATA controller.  The benchmarks were outstanding.  Maybe I could have gotten a little better performance from using a dedicated RAID card, but 700 MB/sec read and write is good enough for me.

Windows 7 Backup and Restore Problems

Nov 17, 2010 by Paul White

During my quest to upgrade my computer from my 4 disk SAS raid array to a 3 disk SSD raid array, I had a few learning experiences with the windows 7 backup and restore system.  Hopefully my tips will help others.

moved my server to internap houston data center

Nov 6, 2010 by Paul White

At the end of September 2010, my old Data Center had some lease issues, resulting in the data connection being pulled from the data center.  So I moved my 1U rack server to Internap.  Many are wondering why I choose Internap, hopefully this blog will provide some answers.

Hush Houston Nightclub for sale

Oct 20, 2010 by Paul White

I was browsing Craigslist when I came accross an interesting post
Oct 11 Nightclub for sale - business/commerical
Upon reading the description, this had to be none other than Houston's Hush Nightclub.
I personally know the original owner, who told me lots on interesting tales about the place.
Looks like the new owner has decided its time to get out the nightclub business.