Carnage

I really do take good care of my laptop(s).

Really, I do.

Still, things happen. Zippers get left open. Laptops fall off their perch and gravity always rules the day.



The machines still work fine (needed to replace a hard in one of them), but that Sprint EVDO card is toast. The next one I'll get will be USB so I can use it on other machines.


One thing that doesn't show well in photos is that both MacBook Pro's are slightly bent from being in my backpack against the curve of my back.

Thank god these machines are made from aluminum and not plastic.

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Hillary and McCain are problematic

John McCain and Hillary are problematic for voters and their respective parties in how they'll influence voter turnout just for being on the ticket.

McCain isn't a a republican. Sure he runs on the right, but he legislates on the left. If he's the nominee, you can bet conservatives and core republicans would rather NOT vote for him than just get in a vote against the democratic nominee. Thats just how conservatives are - if they don't like their candidate, then they'll not vote for him. (and the media and left wingers know this - thats why McCain gets all the media coverage ... hard to vote for the other guy(s) when you don't know anything about him). And he's a democrat strategists dream in terms of the skeletons in his closet and his legislation record. Its almost gonna be too easy for them to blast his campaign.. Child's play if you ask me. Its just what the Dems would love to be facing regardless of who's on their ticket since he's soooo beatable. (I think any definition to RINO should reference McCain directly)

Hillary on the other hand will spur opposition voter turnout almost regardless of who's on the R ticket. If they thought they had a platform with ABB (Anyone but Bush), the ABH vote might be actually stronger and they have to watch out for that. The corruption and issues with her and Bill are gonna be a major pain to deal with as well. She's all over the board on her replies to questions and she's eager to give everything to everyone in her quest for power. And you can bet that those video and audio soundbites will be back to haunt her.

In my opinion, Obama is the better choice for the Dems, and Romney is best for the Republicans at this point.

Just ran into a friend of mine (he's a staunch Conservative) and he made a good point when I bought up this post. McCain and Hillary are politically equal. Given the choice, he'd vote for her so the Dems are to blame for anything that happens. His theory is that either or, its the same.

And they want to run all the team websites?

Eli and the Giants do the unthinkable - and the Pat's history setting season is shattered in the final seconds of the Super Bowl.

NFL.com's Super Bowl game page? Yeah, well they think the North v. South game is more important than this little upset in Phoenix and give you those video highlights and photo gallery. Whoooooops! (click on the image)

And this from the guys who want to take over running all of the NFL team's websites. Great.

No, you really did ask for porn in your inbox

I'm still amazed at how people report spam that's not spam. I'm not talking the tough to decipher spams, I'm talking about obvious email newsletters that they've subscribed to, and now that they no longer want to receive the newsletter, they just report it as spam instead of unsubscribing.

For emails from places like Amazon, CircuitCity, its kinda weird. You bought things from them and their unsubscribe links are simple one click functions. Real quick and painless. But the ones I laugh at are the porn spams - yeah dude, you bought something from them and now you aren't happy with the disgusting crap they're putting in your inbox?

Either unsubscribe or get used to it. Sure, its nasty, but since its a valid email newsletter, we're not gonna mark it as spam. Sorry bud.

Project Codename : Kermie

It isn't easy being green...

The launch date is approaching! Stay tuned!

I'm going tapeless in 2008

I thought I'd love my Canon HV20 that I got before Christmas. It works great, but amazingly I've never sat down, hooked up the firewire and pulled any video off of it. Why not? Because its a pain in the butt.

Instead, I just use my Sanyo Xacti or Canon SD750 instead. When I'm ready to import the video, I don't need to sit through the painstakingly slow import process. I just plug in the camera and iPhoto imports the data at, well, data speeds. Not tape play speeds.

At CES, Canon announced a new family of handheld HD video cameras that have built in 16GB storage and a SD slot for more. (HV20 pictured here) SD cards are now 32GB and 64GB cards are just around the corner. I'm all over these cams. They're well priced, no tape mechanism to break, wear down and chew on battery life and with recording direct to memory, importing is quick. Oh, and you'll never accidentally record over existing footage either. (If you've ever done that before with your tape camera - raise your hand. Ok, you can put them down now) I knew I wanted one, but when I got to fondle one at MacWorld, I fell in love. I pushed $1000 of tightly rolled $100 bills at the booth dude, but to no avail. I'll have to wait like everyone else.

So, I'm gonna get the new Canon HF10 as soon as its available.

Anyone want a never used, brand new HV20 HD video camera? I'll even toss in some extra tapes. ;-)