Adding yet another Vista BSOD to the my running count.
Truth Revealed! Fresh dent in MacBook Pro is from wife dropping it!
- Left BlackBerry in NY cab. Contacted cabbie but he got taken to JFK. Ugh! Luckily getting it back in a bit.
- Still waiting for BlackBerry return. iPhone is happily safe with me.
- Reunited with BlackBerry!
I sent this tweet four hours ago. Your getting it now, in the future, from me in the past.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Threat level is still orange. Be afraid!
Just upgraded all my WordPress plugins. So happy to do that in 2.5 now. Wishing there was an “Upgrade All” button.
TED - Podcast You Should Be Watching
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED has an annual conference that in recent years has become a pretty amazing event. Getting into TED is not easy. On top of a very expensive entry fee, you actually have to write an essay expanding on your accomplishments and what you expect to achieve in the coming years.
Fortunately for everyone, TED has also opened up in a very big way. The TED website is pretty amazing and has videos of hundreds, if not thousands, of TED presentations. You should add this to your list of sites to watch and check out. The podcast for TED and my iPhone are musts for me.
Here is a collection of three amazing videos released this year from the TED conference. I watched them in this order, in a row, and that is why I wrote this post. I just felt more people should see this great stuff. It makes you think.
Karen Armstrong
Stephen Hawking
Al Gore
Minneapolis Getting Comcast Love
This rolled by in my newsfeed a few days ago and caught my eye. The New York Times had a short piece on Minneapolis getting some new high-speed options from Comcast. I found the release on Comcast’s website about it as well.
Comcast is rolling out this new DOCSIS 3.0 technology and it promises to give us 50 megabit download speeds. That’s a whopping 10x on what I get now on a regular basis. The service is about 2.5x as expensive as well, but I’d seriously consider the upgrade.
I checked out my service area and this isn’t an option for me yet. Does anyone see this as an option yet? Supposedly it’s available now.
Funny that using OS X still makes me so much happier than any other OS I use on a regular basis.
Mac Pro going into the shop for diagnostics and repair. Apple TV being swapped today.
My computers are turning on me and its ugly!
Wow - if you “Restore to Factory Defaults” an original Apple TV you are left with v 1.0 on it. Eek…
Still thinking about Into the Wild from last night. What a movie. Think I need to read the book.
Anyone know if you can change Time Machine in Leopard to run while on battery power? Only running when plugged in is screwing me up.
Ugh – finally gave up and made an appointment for my Mac Pro. This has to be a hardware issue.
Good Luck to Hector in Ironman Arizona
My brother-in-law Hector is racing in Ironman Arizona this weekend!
On Sunday morning he is going to do the epic 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run. It’s a pretty amazing feat, and it’s his 2nd Ironman (he did Ironman Wisconsin last year).
His bib number is 297 and you can follow his progress yourself at Ironman Live.
Hector’s put in countless hours of training, and having one Ironman under his belt is no longer a rookie to the race. I expect he’s going to do awesome.
Good luck Hec! Rock it!
Update: Hector just finished the Arizona Ironman. He put in an awesome time of 10:57:50 and placed 191st position overall. Awesome job dude! I’ll add a link here to his post-race write-up in a few days.
CSSEdit just saved me major pain and anguish. Happy.
Continued refining and thinning of household “junk”. So much more to do. Simplify.