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Emily took a trip with her book club to Mystic CT, to hear March’s book author speak.
They did some aerial acrobatics with spectacular photographic results.
The whole series was sent to and posted on the official Bed Jumping site where the editor deemed them to be “some of the highest quality images ever featured here at BedJump.com”
Last weekend, I ran the Scotland Run 10k in the park. 5,718 people turned out in the drizzling cold, near Scottish weather morning, bagpipers played, running kilts worn, good times had. I had been patiently waiting for the race photos to be published so I could, in a tasteful and subtle manner, show off regarding my blistering pace here on the blog.
And with training I was able to chop six full minutes off last year’s time and beat even my aggressive goal times.
Then, wouldn’t you know it, the very first picture available to purchase from the race includes 56 year old Joe Kvilhaug finishing directly in front of me. At least he seemed to have given it his all by the look on his face.
The cosmos have a funny way of correcting for hubris don’t they?
Years ago I used and loved Cnet’s catchup utility which checked your apps and provided lists of updates automatically. They killed the product and while I tried VersionTracker for a while, I have been patiently waiting nearly five years for its eventual return. Someone else built it and did a great job.
Windows only: Software download web site File Hippo has released a handy piece of software called Update Checker, which scans your computer’s installed apps and then reports which ones could use an update.
Source: LifeHacker Download of the Day: File Hippo Update Checker (Windows)
Originally published on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:30:00 GMT
Works great in Vista too.
Found: Vista drivers for the Toshiba M200 tablet.
There has been quite a lot of discussion from M200 owners about whether or not Toshiba was going to support Vista on this model or not, including this detailed post from Scott Hanselman.
When I first got the tablet, I set up a Google blog search RSS feed for “m200 vista” and it paid off exactly as I had hoped. On the forum GottaBeMobile, someone posted that the drivers were spotted on the Swiss Toshiba support site [link]. You don’t have to actually read the foreign language (German?) page, the dropdowns are in English or product-name-eze.
And it looks like everything is here, video drivers, “value added package”, etc. The biggest problem by far — the tablet not coming back from sleep — seems to have been addressed with the new video driver.
Once again the link: http://ch.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?LNG=8&service=CH
One of my rules for blogging is that I spend more than 15 minutes searching for something I should do a post that will help someone else in the future.
I am using a second monitor attached to my laptop when I’m at the office. I’m able to put everything (mail, IM, firefox, etc) on the second monitor and just keep Visual Studio and IE open for development on my main screen. Fantastic productivity enhancer. Except this is a laptop so when I’m connecting from somewhere else, and I’m don’t carry a second monitor with me, windows will sometimes open in the phantom window, rendering them useless. Side note: I bet most people with laptops don’t realize that they can probably do this with their relatively new machines. I think the assumption is that the monitor input is just for projectors and won’t function as a second display. You should check. Monitors are cheap and you might even have an extra one around.
Lifehacker has a trick that works maybe 70% of the time here, but many windows don’t have the “move” handler that this trick relies on.
I had discovered this one other time in my life, but it must have been pre-blog. It took me forever to find, but here is a very simple (crude) tool that will bring back any window. Also works in Vista, unlike a shareware tool I tried for this problem (Shove-It).
Future Google searchers, maybe this will help:
Restore off screen windows
Force windows on screen
relocate windows multi monitor tool
relocate lost windows
windows off screen
Help, I used to have a second monitor, now I can’t find my windows
Thank you AutoBlog for posting this! We have here four or five Ferrari F1 cars ranging from the ’50’s up to an F2004 or so rampaging through Rome, Monaco, Rio, Sydney, New York and Hong Kong city streets. Amazing stuff and be sure to turn up the sound! [Bigger, better looking QuickTime link here]
Comments, when I first saw the ad, I was sure that the Ferrari I saw back in October [flickr link] parked in the Anthorpe building [9k/month apartment listing] was used, but the ones in the ad start a little later than the one I saw.
Also, this is the kind of thing that could convince a guy to buy an Apple TV device and an HDTV.
I installed this on my servers within about two hours of it being released to the web. I am compelled, I can’t explain it.
Anyway, just a tiny little note to say that when you upgrade, all NICs will have their firewall turned on automatically. As you can see in the picture we have a backend, management NIC with dedicated hardware, it doesn’t really need a firewall.
I caught this pretty quickly, but I’m putting this up there in the hopes that I can save someone else some degree of suffering. Don’t rollback just yet anonymous Google friend!
This will be hard to hear above the din that is Arcade Fire indie music hype, but I have a new album to rave on.
Kings of Leon’s new album Because of the Times.
I liked, but didn’t love their first two albums, I thought they were somehow muted and timid in the production and it didn’t do enough for me.
But I’m completely rocking out to this new one. There’s a new dynamicism on this record that I didn’t hear before. It doesn’t hurt that I rediscovered the volume knob and am going through a loud phase. Every two months or so, I remember that, as an adult, I can crank it up whenever I feel like it.
Favorite tracks: 2. Charmer, 3. On Call, 6. My Party, 7. True Love Way, 8. Ragoo This is pointless. There are more favorite tracks than non-favorites. This is a great album.
While I always speak of my foray into the world of being an entrepreneur in positive terms, and indeed this is shaping up to the most exciting thing I’ve ever done professionally, it is also quite *hard*.
Of course I am well prepared to know how hard it is. My father has been an entrepreneur for nearly my whole life, my brother-in-law is an expert as well.
You can guess the obvious stuff like money, stress and long hours and of course I knew those going in. Yet I have been surprised by a few things in my not-quite four months of this.
The old-timey hand car pictured serves as a useful metaphor. I’m on that thing pumping away, moving down the tracks, but as soon as I stop, there’s not much coasting. In a normal 9-5 job at a big company, you can come in late or uninterested and things are already moving along, you just hop on and away you go. Not so in a startup. Determination to keep momentum going is a requirement to be in this game.
Anybody that knows me personally would undoubtedly describe me as even-keeled. Generally I’m not prone to over-worry or over-excitement. Except that now I do have to admit that pulling up TechCrunch, the key blog that tracks our market, drives my anxiety to rare levels. First mover advantage is not a life and death factor for us, but it clearly matters a great deal. So it happens quite frequently that someone will claim to be all the things we aspire to and for a few minutes, mild panic sets in. It only lasts until I continue investigations and determine, in all the cases so far, that there might be elements of similarity, but the differences are key and the blood pressure drops.
Old-timey hand car over there also demonstrates pretty clearly having someone else (or two or three) on that car with you makes all the difference and I’m extremely fortunate to have great partners.
My fourth generation ipod is a bit long in the tooth at this point, but at twenty gigs, it has plenty of space for music and it doesn’t play video so no biggie there.
Like everyone else I’ve run into trouble with it from time to time. I even had to replace the headphone jack and the logic board — through a third party, not Apple, since it was past the warrantee at that point. A couple weeks ago, I had some issues with the drive and I thought maybe it was click-of-death time. I ran a thorough chkdsk and it found and fixed a few things. Great. Except iTunes no longer recognized the ipod. It showed up in Windows fine and the ipod diagnostics even came back with all green lights. The most frustrating part was that all of Apple’s advice involved doing a restore from within iTunes, except iTunes wasn’t recognizing it. Argh.
My research was pretty extensive into the inner workings of firmware and partitions because I as considering drastic measures. My plan involved resetting the firmware myself using one of the linux based tools that were created for the linux on ipod projects.
I don’t need to get into all the details to be able to share my eventual fix with you. At some point I realized that the actual drive partition doesn’t really hold any of the ipod logic on it. I simply did “format i: /x /fs:fat32” (where I: is the drive letter for the ipod!!) from within Windows. The ipod restarted, iTunes detected it and offered to give it a name and set me up fresh all over again.
Granted this method must be taken as a measure of last resort and this was a 4G ipod, I don’t know if other generations work the same way. I can confirm this worked on Emily’s mini though as well.
