Archive for May, 2009
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
I’ve always been a sucker for animated shows. For me it was less about the Smurfs and Bugs Bunny (although Bugs is a hero of mine), it was more about action and adventure. The fact is, when I was growing up, special effects were still pretty limited and limited to a few minutes of screen time, even in major motion pictures. There is no such limitation when you’re drawing frames on paper.
I stumbled on IGN’s top 100 Animated TV Series the other day, and of course I reviewed their list to see if I agreed with their assessment (it sucks that you have to click through each item). I have to admit they didn’t do too bad. There are several shows that I never had an interest in watching show up pretty high on the list. I was happy to see that M.A.S.K. (#99), and Robotech (#34) made the list. That’s not to say that I completely agreed with their assement.
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
I’ve rated 1346 movies on Netflix… you know how many suggestions they have for me? None… not a single one. I’m not really complaining about it… just just a little strange is all.
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
It’s been a few weeks since we released the BlackBerry Storm version of our software at work in RIM’s App World, and much like the Storm in general, it is pales in comparison to the Apple’s App Store. We receive more support emails about users having problems with registrations than actual issues with the application.
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Justin mentioned to me back in April that he thought it might be fun (albeit a little insane) to do an offroading trip on his wedding day in June. Since I am the king of crazy ideas, I’ve taken the flag, and have been pushing to try to make this happen.
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
On the subject of Jeep repairs (and my ongoing task of trying to finally get the Jeep running well), I dove into my next big task today, replacing the cooling system. As you can see (from the picture), a healthy percentage of the fins are missing (looks to be maybe 15% of the radiator is gone).
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
I’ve been on a “get my Jeep running right” kick lately. My wife hasn’t been too thrilled as I come home from work, change clothes and work on the Jeep for a few hours. I’m dreadfully behind schedule though, things never seem to go to plan (and always seem to take twice as long as they should).
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Note to self: Remove wedding band before welding, otherwise you may end up with slag bits welded to your ring.
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
I just noticed that it was six years ago today when I posted for the first time to this particular blog. I kept blogs before this, but those entries are lost to time…
It’s amazing how much has changed in six years.
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
After setting up our IP camera as a baby monitor, I wanted to get the pics up on our iPhones so either of us could quickly check baby Zee’s status without too much fuss. There are a few dedicated cam viewers in the app store, but nothing seemed to fit our specific task. I want a one click solution that shows the camera feed, full screen, without a lot of clicking (who wants to bother with annoyances like that at 3am)? After a little digging I discovered the very wonderful <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
Sticking this meta tag at the top of a web page means that if you save the page as a bookmark to your home screen, when you click on it later it will open in a full screen Safari without any tab bars (with the exception of battery and signal).
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
A decent baby monitor with video runs $200+. Although I think a video monitor is a good idea, once the baby is old enough not to need monitoring, there’s not a whole lot else you can do with it once you’re done with it.
Instead we opted to go for a more creative solution. We purchased a standard audio monitor (digital and all of that jazz), then I purchased a Panasonic IP cam. Because most of the time we’re going to want to see at night I also bought a infrared LED light (did you know that most video cameras can see infrared light?). I bought a wired IP cam because I have an ancient wireless access point that I could plug it into.
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