I watched the new ABS TV series “V” off my DVR last night. I was surprised that the initial episode was only one hour long. The original miniseries was almost 3-1/2 hours crammed into two nights back in May 1983. I can still remember chatting with friends in school the next day.…
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I overheard a great story on the airport shuttle the other day. I was sharing the bus with some pilots and flight attendants for a regional carrier I do not normally use. The group was starting their day and it was obvious that the were familiar with each other.…
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Hosted photography web site for local photographer.
Apple’s Automator is a great to for scripting those activities that you find yourself doing over an over. I needed a way to translate a selection of text. I created this simple Automator workflow to grab the selected text and send it to Google’s Translation service.…
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In the Dan Brown novel
The Lost Symbol a character finds an IP address but is confounded trying to figure out whose IP address it is. She enlists the help of a hacker friend who is also confounded but claims to be able to hack it in no time.…
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I stumbled upon an old episode of The Streets of San Francisco called “Innocent No More” from February 1977. Richard Hatch was the co-star on the show and Mark Hamill was the guest star.
Dan Brown’s most recent thriller novel The Lost Symbol we find Robert Langdon on the train of a bad guy who uses Dr. Langdon knowledge of ancient symbols to track down a mysterious talisman of the Masons. Mean while another character is trying to uncover the identity of a web server containing some vital but redacted information.…
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Careful
xevio.us
*** STOP: 0x0000000c (0x00000000, 0xEB71092F, 0x00000008, 0xC0000000)
BAD_WEB_ADDRESS_NOT_HANDLED *** Address EB662040 at EB660000 Date Stamp 36B075CE – Internet.sysCPUID:Genuine Intel 6.3.3 irql:lf SYSVER 0xF0000565
Dll Base
DateStmp
– Name
Dll Base
DateStmp
– Name
80100000
336546bf
– ntoskrnl.exe
80010000
33247f88
– hal.dll…
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Photoshop is not always the right tool when it comes to manipulating images. If I want to crop a photo and take out the red-eye, iPhoto is very convenient for that. If I want to remove a person or telephone pole from a picture, then I need Photoshop.…
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I read Audrey Niffenegger’s book a couple of years ago. The book follows the life of Henry who has a genetic disorder like epilepsy that causes him to get displaced in time. He time travels to other places and times in his life.…
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One of the nice features of iTunes/Address Book is the ability to Sync with services like Exchange, Yahoo! and Google in addition to Apple’s own MobileMe. I decided to try these services at the risk of really screwing up my Address Book.…
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The latest rumor out of Cupertino is that the next version of iTunes, version 9, will support Blu-Ray. This rumor does not seem all that unbelievable. Its one of those rumors that seems obvious. Blu-Ray is the successor to DVD and now that the cost of the players has come down it seems reasonable that we will see Blu-Ray hardware in the next round of releases.…
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