Wow, Canon let a guy who doesn’t make movies borrow the new Canon 5D Mark II for a weekend and this is the movie he made. It is truly remarkable how this move to a digital SLR taking HD movies is going to change the world. Now you can take 21MP stills or make the [...]
OMG watch what a dSLR can make in a movie
September 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Home Movies, Photography
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Soccer schedules
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Wow, there are so many schedules to track:
Seattle Youth Soccer Assocation. Only the September schedule is available right now.
Catholic Youth Organization Soccer Schedule uses something called eScheduler which is a little hard to use, but eventually you can find 6th Grade North
Tags: Amp·Catholic Youth Organization·Cyos·Seattle Youth·Soccer Schedule·Soccer Schedules·Sys·Sysa·Wow·Youth Soccer
Excel 2008 bugs make it useless for loans and private equity
August 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Wow, I can’t believe Microsoft would ship a product like this. Beware, Excel 2008 won’t recalc XIRR correctly and in fact any sheet that has an intentional reference where loan amounts have fees that are dependent. This has worked in versions of Excel for the last 20 years. So sad, it means that Excel 2008 [...]
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Olympic finals
August 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Wow, China wins 51 gold medals, by far higher than the US at 36. The overall standings were very close. US at 110 and China at 100.
What is more significant IMHO is how concentrated the US medals are. Michael Phelps accounted for no less than 8 of the 36 gold that the US [...]
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iMovie 7.0 idiosyncracies and publishing to Zenphoto
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Wow, it is hard to figure a few things out with iMovie, but here is the best way to produce great looking DVDs and also things ready for export:
iMovie ‘08 (aka version 7.0) is a bit of a wierd program. First, it doesn’t have a File Save function. Instead, all projects are in a named [...]
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1M iPhones and 10M app downloads
July 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geek
Wow, at this rate of 10 apps per new iphone, this is going to be an amazing platform. The lower price I’m sure really helped. Hope I get mine soon. (Despite the short battery life and I’m going to love the white color!)
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
Despite long lines and [...]
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Cathy Pacific Business Class
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Wow, fully flat seats in business class on Cathay. Sign me up! And a flast screen TV too. That is great for the Vancouver to Hong Kong leg that I take sometimes.
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Phone Rates to China
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
It is amazing how rates have really fallen. Now with AT&T, calling a mobile number in China is $0.16 a minute. With GlobalPhone as a low cost check, it is 7.6 cents per minute. That is 1 cent a minute to call a local access number (7038522111) and then 6.6 cents to call China. Wow, [...]
Tags: Amp·China·Globalphone·Mobile Number·Wo·Wow
iPhone cannot restore error 6 , -50, etc.
April 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Wow, my iPhone got wedged with the Apple logo coming up and then the spinning wheel going on forever. This is apparently fairly common and there are not many good resolutions for error or unknown error
All the resolutions come down it seems to a single thing:
Get the iPhone into what is called DFU or restore [...]
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