Jamie Thingelstad

A few days ago I watched this amazing video that was created on the brand new Canon 5D Mark II. I was going to put a link to it on my site, but when I went to found it I was greeted with this screen.

What? Canon USA has “EXCEEDED [THEIR] DOWNLOAD CAPACITY” (the all-caps is courtesy of them). Does anyone at Canon realize how ridiculous it makes them look to have this message on their site? I’m wondering if maybe Canon just hosts at Dreamhost or something.

Canon, if you are going to tell people about how serious you are about amazing imaging and beautiful video, the first place to start is by being able to serve that content to the web. And please never use ALL CAPS.

Apparently the video will be back up “shortly” and I’ll post a link to it then.

I was doing some printing in Lightroom recently and was struggling. The prints were coming out really badly, and when looking for the quality controls for the Canon S900 I couldn’t find any of the normal settings. This is what it should look like, with options for the type of printing.

But instead I was getting this, with a big crossed out option and an incompatibility over “architecture”.

I was pretty confused why this wasn’t working and figured I needed to reinstall my drivers, but didn’t want to restart at that point so left it. I kept noodling this over and that word “architecture” was bugging me. Then it hit me!

I’ve posted before about how great Lightroom is in 64-bit mode. It dawned on me that I was running a “64-bit architecture” and the printer driver was probably only 32-bit. I checked the box for Lightroom to run in 32-bit mode and launched it again and the printer settings worked great! It sure would be nice if the error message just said “this doesn’t work in 64-bit mode”.

Lesson learned! Run Lightroom in 64-bit, unless you want to print, then restart in 32-bit. If anyone knows what printers have 64-bit driver support it would be great to have a list.

Great cup of Boulder Blues green tea.

Watching Glengarry Glen Ross. It’s time for my semi-annual viewing.

“Put that coffee down. Coffee’s for closers only” … Beautiful.

Thinking I should host a Glengarry Glen Ross viewing night for local Twitter friends… :-)

Upgrade morning. All three Apple TV’s up to 2.2 and iTunes up to 8.0.1.

Genius on Apple TV is, genius. Will get much more use on TV than in iTunes.

Suspect Apple TV 2.2 has a bug. I keep starting videos and the audio plays but video is black. Hit menu and restart the video and it works. 😕

Anyone know if Apple TV 2.2 “Standby” menu is anything more than what you’ve always been able to do by pressing play for 5 seconds?

At the Humane Society to learn about dog training classes for Chase and Izzy.

Serious punk rocker dude in dog class wearing a Profane Existence shirt. Sweet!

I seriously doubt there is any band that goes better with fall than The Replacements.

Looking to extend my AIM network via Twitter. Use AIM, @ me your username. You can find me on AIM under “jthingelstad”.