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Digital RSS FeedsStuck on the Bus! - I have to tell you a story, the first day of CES was bus Hell day as we spent 2 hours on a bus trying to get the Sands Convention center. Hate to say it but someone in this city and with this event really dropped the ball. I think you will get a laugh out of the short video clip. ...Feed Source: www.geeknewscentral.com Consumer Electronics Show Update Day 2 - I wanted to drop everyone a line and give you an update from CES. Andy and I have been running the halls of the convention floor collecting an enormous amount of information. I have been able to get the video transfered to hard drive but am way behind on getting it rendered. Oh that Sony Hard Drive for my camera would have really come in handy! ... GNCV-2007-01-09 CES Day 2 Round Up Video!!! - This is a Special Day 2 Round Up Video for the Tech Podcast Network with Andy McCaskey of Slashdotreview Podcast and Todd Cochrane at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show. 6 Vendors reviewed in 9 minutes
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... GNCV-2007-01-08 CES Day 1 Round Up Video!!! - This is a Special Day 1 Round Up Video for the Tech Podcast Network with Andy McCaskey of Slashdotreview Podcast and Todd Cochrane.
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... GNC-2007-01-08 #232 - I have an exclusive interview with a developer of the Microsoft Home Server team along with some exclusive clips of a prototype. This thing really rocks the house and I want one bad.
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... GNCV-2007-01-07 CES #5 - At the Bloghaus during the Gates Keynote AMD revealed the HP TouchSmart PC and while we did not have our normal interview microphone you will find the demo pretty compelling
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... GNCV-2007-01-06-4 CES #4 - Last Video Posting from Press night on Saturday the 6th
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... Blogging the Bill Gates CES Keynote! - Ok folks I am blogging the Gates Keynote live from the BlogHaus and will be updating this entry live. Keep it tuned here as we are about 11 minutes to go.
Ok folks here we go
The pre-roll video is about the social and Bill is now speaking he is talking about the digital life style that we are all part of and how the PC is taking over things that PC's would have never done. 40% of households now have more than one computer as is evident of stats from the readership of this blog
Bill thinks we are missing out on the connections meaning we want our music wherever we are and we want the experiences are seamless. He feels that Microsoft can help in the connected experiences.
Microsoft is at Milestones with the release of Vista and he feels that user generated content will be driving where windows goes. The last Vista Beta release was tested by over 5 million people.
He also talks about the new features of Office are starting to be really used and ... Rendering Video with Final Cut Pro and need some help! - I do have a few observations here at CES getting Video Rendered is proving to be time consuming beyond belief as we expected. I have no problem getting the projects ready for rendering but I really would like to batch the renderings to process while I am asleep at night. I am using Final Cut Express so I am not sure if the version supports it but you Mac masters out there find me a solution and you will get a big warm hug. geeknews@gmail.com
... GNCV-2007-01-06-3 CES #3 - Posting this videocast from the Bloghaus in the Belagio more fun interviews from the press event last night. Thanks to the Podtech crew!
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... GNCV-2007-01-06-2 CES #2 - Videos are going to come hot and heavy here is the second with Interviews with Cyberlink and Oticon
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... GNCV-2007-01-06-1 CES #1 - This is the first in a series of Interviews I will be putting online over the next couple of weeks they are all very short 5-7 minutes and I think you will enjoy them.
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... GNC-2007-01-06 #231 - First show from CES this is the Press Only event and although very noisy we got some great coverage. I am going to try another Mic on the next set of interviews and we will see how that goes.
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CES Unveiled: The Official Press Event of the... Registered at CES - Ok folks in Vegas and I have hooked up with Andy McCaskey from Slashdotreview.com and we are in the press center checking out what they have to offer and will be heading off in a few minutes to check out some vendor presentations. More later and I hope to have a audio podcast for you.... Hitachi break 1TB Hard Drive Barrier - We have come a long way baby. It was not that long ago when I paid a cool $1000.00 for a drive that had 1.6GB and thought I was king of the hill. Modem speeds were at 28.8 and what was to become the modern Internet was just beginning to see some mainstream coverage.
Here we are today just a little over 10 years later and consumers non ending need for more storage will be able to buy a 1TB Drive. If your like me and your capturing a lot of video I can imagine 4 or 5 of these in a desktop someplace. Not to mention the backup capacity for all of that data as well.
We are truly in the digital age and the need for my storage is only going to continue to grow. Imagine this if you will. Today's youth have the ability to digitally store nearly everything they do in life. Millions of pictures and 1000's of videos will need to be archived for during the lifetime of each person. I shudder to think of the data needs as we move forward not to mention the impact to the environmen... Amped for Speed - Your first glance of this little red convertibles' spec sheet will probably have you thinking. "$92,000 for a cute little roadster that can do 0 - 60 in about 4 seconds? Nothing new here." But as you read on you will learn that this little bad boy is 100% electric and can also do 250 miles per charge! 5 days in and they are currently sold out of the 07's so start saving your pennies now for the '08 Tesla Roadster. [link] ... GNC-2007-01-05 #230 - This is the prelude show to the Consumer Electronics show and I am beyond excited to be heading to Las Vegas tonight. Show coverage starts Saturday evening. Juicy Tech Tidbits tonight as well.
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Sadly I cannot say the same for UPS over the past 2 years we have had numerous packages not delivered on time and have had to run countless traces on boxes its almost a running joke in this house. I used to be a big fan of UPS. today I have lost complete faith in UPS and I will not ship anything through them nor will I order any products from any company that use them as a shipper. They have screwed me one to many times!
Today I was expecting a highly critical component to be delivered to the house that is not available commercially here in Hawaii, it was shipped 2nd day air and was picked up by UPS on the 29th. I was concerned yesterday when the package did not arrive, and contacted UPS and was told it would be here today. I knew yesterday... MovableType Tags Feature has no External Editor Support! - If you look at the bottom of this post you will see at section on the entry that says Tags: yet there are no entries in the Tags section. You may scratch your head and ask why. Well it is quite simple I am writing this post with an external editor and although the application has the ability to add its own tags listing it does not support MovableTypes “Tag” feature.
If I were posting this entry via the web based interface I would simply enter this articles tag entries in the form and when I would save the posting the tag data would be written to a database entry that would collect and organize all tags.
I am beyond shocked that no plugin has been written to support this new feature with any of the external editors like BlogJet, Ecto or Qumana. What is really concerning is that the feature has been out for a long time and yet no external editing support for the feature.
So here is the deal I would be willing to pay a ... More Bell Fodder - As mentioned a few days ago the merger of AT&T and Bell South was approved. Part of that merger has AT&T gaining full control of Cingular Wireless. The back and forth history of Cingular goes on for years but I have to wonder what AT&T was thinking roughly 2 years ago when they sold AT&T wireless to Cingular. Did they know they would plan to buy it all back? I had AT&T wireless at the time and I was very disappointed when they were sold. As a customer it was a major pain during the transition not knowing where to find account data and make payments. Well, here we go again. Cingular will be changing its name to AT&T Wireless. Luckily I'm not with either carrier at the moment. ... My Interview on The Burton Report - I Recently did an Interview with Ari Burton for The Burton Report he I talk at length about [Blubrry.com] I also talk about the podcasting space.... GNC-2007-01-02 #229 - Lots of great content to kick off the new year along with a run down of all the plans for CES. Next show I will cover some incentives for those that help us spread the word on the CES coverage.
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If... My Focus is on Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show - I have been working through my plans for CES and even yesterday was working on my schedule. If your going to this show and do not have a strategy on where your going to go you will never cover it effectively. Even what I wear this year has been altered to handle the 60 plus miles of carpet. I will be pumping out a lot of Video and Audio so you will want to make sure that you are subscribed to the RSS feed as the fun begins this coming Saturday.... Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes - Ok folks, the comment spam over here has just gotten to be amazingly thick, to the point that I am not even sure if any real person has commented since Lumpy about a month ago. Therefore, I am moving to a new site for my blog. The Geeks Blog is to be found by combining the bold words and adding a dot com, and it will be the new location for my blog. It's using the new Movable Type 3.33, and will have more restrictive commenting. If you want to comment, and have your comment show up within 3 months, I recommend TypeKey.
This install will no longer accept any comments unless you use that. I will not be going through comment spam any more over there, than I do now, which is to say once every 3 months. I know a few of you do use that, and I thank you. For those that do not, and you know who you are, I would recommend that step. It's not hard, and does give you access to a not insignificant portion of the blogging c... I'm back baby! - Due to the kindness of a Shadow Walker, my guild in World of Warcraft, I am back in World of Warcraft. The last time I played was the 28th of June, and I must say that taking the break I did has helped, I think. I no longer feel the need to be around and in game all the time. My two main characters are 60, I am happy with my life outside of game, and I am excited about the stuff we have heard so far about the expansion.
My Druid will get to fly, my Paladin will get to be a real tank, taunt and all, if I go that route. There is going to be a lot of new content to explore when the expansion hits, and lots to explore in the world of outlands. From the minimal research I have done, checking fan sites, Google Video and YouTube, it looks awesome. For those who haven't doing the obcessive research I have, the videos that have popped up online are showing stuff like what one sees upon passing through the dark portal.
This is including an as yet unnamed pit lord, though rep... Dogs and jerks - I was reading through the Free Press today and I noticed in the Top News, they dedicated 2 pages, excluding ads, to the story of a couple who broke up a fair time ago amidst betrayal and pain. Belinda Stronach, for you non Americans out there, was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, who 'crossed the aisle' to join the Liberals when the Liberals were still in power, in a failed attempt to save their failing run of leadership. In doing so, she also left her boyfriend, fellow Conservative MP Peter McKay.
Some are saying that recent alleged comments by McKay in the House of Commons are justified, and yet others say that inaction by the Conservative leadership is a sign that the party has no respect for women. My view? Having had my share of betrayal and heartache, I can see that McKay might feel a tad betrayed and still a little angry. Does that make what he said right, fair, or proper? Hell no. Do I think it should make headline news for days? Not in the least. It's a g... And the test results say.... - Gall Stones. Uggh. I have to consult with my doctor regarding 'surgical options' which I am informed may mean removal of my gall bladder, which could mean no more of most of the foods I like the most. I'll keep you up to date on the info as I have it. Now, I think I am going to drown my sorrows in.. a big glass of Crystal Light flavored water. ... All the pretty lights behind my eyes... - Wee, the pretty, pretty lights. I just got back from the pharmacy, and the hospital before that. I am proud of the fact I don't partake of illegal drugs, but I will be happy to occasionally be shot full of morphine and be high as a kite. I was in the hospital because the pain that hit me on Wednesday night, and then again on Thursday night, came back. I thought when it hit me again Thursday, I thought maybe it was just that I had eaten greasy food too much, and I stopped. But last night I ate not much of anything, never mind greasy foods, and this morning I woke up in extreme pain again.
Thankfully my parents stopped by shortly there after, and kindly took me to the hospital. They think it is something to do with my gall bladder, I think they said(I was rather hazy due to morphine) and advised I call for an ultra sound ASAP. We'll see what happens, I guess. Now, I am going to stop fighting it and go back to letting the morphine knock me out. Bye. [Addition: I forgot to m... This ain't good - I am thinking, and I may be wrong on this, but I think that agonizing pain in ones abdomen is not a good thing. I am not sure if it's what I had for lunch, which was a rather large burger at a newly opened cafe downtown, or if it's something worse, but I left work half an hour before I was off and I have just found it impossible to sit, or lie, or be still. The pain if bad when I am moving around, but it is ten times worse when I am not moving. I think I need to go to bed, or at least try. Good thing I have tomorrow off. ... Thoughts on 9.11, 5 years later - So here we sit. 5 years after an event that almost as much impact on the world as Pearl Harbor did back in the Second World War. It is a time when our nature as caring people, as emotional beings, forces us to reflect, to ponder, and toa recall. As a music fan, times like these make me thing back. Garth Brooks wrote a song after his home state of Oklahoma, was attacked, and it comes to my mind. The chorus is below.
And I hear them saying you?ll never change things and no matter
What you do its still the same thing
But its not the world that I am changing I do this so this
World will know that it will not change me.
That song reminds me that we cannot let events like that bombing, like the events of 5 years ago, bring us down. I will, though, let these events change me. We must excel and keep ourselves alive. That is how I will let them change me. I will let them remind me I am alive. I will allow them to show me that as long as I breathe, as long a... Why there will never be an iPod killer - I know, it's a bold statement. But I feel it is true, and here is why. There are too many 'iPod killers' out there. The market is saturated. Apple made a device that was a revolution in the technology sector. They did it, and were unique and innovative at a time when no one else, or very few others, where there. They did what Apple does. They made a cool looking device with neat features and they listened to the customers in what they wanted in their device.
Now we have every maker of flash memory, several who just make electronics in general, and several others who just have nothing to do with their billions, primarily Microsoft, jumping in to the market. Here is the problem, and it's the same one that anyone trying to dethrone Microsoft from it's market share, in Office and OS. Linux could have dethroned Microsoft. I firmly believe this. The problem is that there became too many flavors, too many different things for different tastes. Microsoft, for all it's bad things, d... Good weekend planned - This should be one of my busiest weekend since I moved last. i have plans today and tomorrow, and was out after work yesterday. Yesterday was a party for several people at work who are getting promoted, some within and some to out of my department. During my lunch I went down and raised a drink, and then after work I went back for the other two of the day. Today I am supposed to be biking out to the Bridge's Drive Inn on Jubilee, one of the cities most renowned ice cream places, for a little of the cold stuff before it gets too cold out.
Tomorrow, myself and the same person are supposed to be meeting up at The Forks, I will be taking pictures of another coworker doing some break dancing, and then we'll head back to my place where i am making dinner, and wine shall be tasted. Should be a fun and entertaining weekend, full of interesting conversations, people, and occasions. [Update:She didn't show for Ice Cream or dinner.]... It's Mine!!! - I am overjoyed to sit here and write that I am not the proud possessor of a set of keys to my proper suite, the suite I should have had access to 1 month ago. That is correct, I have the keys to my home, and will be moving my stuff in tomorrow. Unfortunately the situation is not clear-cut there. I am now told that not only do they want me out by the end of the day tomorrow, but also they have someone moving in the 1st. In my honest opinion, these people learned nothing from the situation with me.
They still expect everything to be perfect, and then they let people down when it is less than perfect. The carpet in the suite I am in now needs to be changed, the tiles in the bathroom need to be fixed, in my opinion there needs to be a real counter put in, and at least one window needs complete replacement. Alas, it is no longer my concern. I will be in my new home tomorrow night, and although it will be a little hectic trying to get all the stuff worked out, I am sure with all ... Changes afoot - Let's see. Where to start. First, I am told the current estimate for my proper suite, the one I should have been in on the 1st of August should be ready to go sometime this week. I have Thursday off, ironically the 31st, so I expect they will be trying to push me to have my stuff moved into my proper suite by Thursday midnight. Whether that actually occurs, I would have to say, would highly depend on when I get my keys. My plan at this time is to set up the desk first, bring up the various pieces of wood from the current suite and the basement, then move all the boxes from the basement storage area first, using the dolly I have.
Those will go into my bedroom and living room for later sorting. Then I will bring up the dishes and food from my current suite. Most of this should be doable in the first night or two after work, assuming I get the keys Tuesday or earlier. On Thursday I hope to have a few hand to help move all the big stuff, my bed, couch, coffee table and more, up... I'mmmmmm Baaaaaaaack!! - I am completely overjoyed to be back online. I have 5 solid bars on my wifi signal, and in even better news, I am told they hope to give me access to the other suite over the weekend. I have downloaded a good sized chunk of podcasts, and over 3000 emails on my extra accounts alone, not even touching my main email address yet. I have much to do, many places to go, and many things to get caught up on. I will try to better post in the next day or two. ... MTS does it again - Well, my Internet connection is working and fully functional upstairs. Over a Cat5 cable. Sadly, as I am downstairs in a different apartment still, this does little to help me. Apparently in the repeated attempts to actually get someone out to actually install my TV service at my planned apartment, which included repeated mentions of the desire for a home networking kit, no one thought I might actually want a home networking kit, which comes with a wireless router, which would allow me to get online from where I am presently. Go figure.
So now my internet is live in the other suite, I am still netless at the place I am in now, and someone is coming out tomorrow to rectify this situation. I am, though, getting a few concessions on the billing side to make the pain that is this last 3 weeks a little more bearable. I will end up paying nothing for the router install, which for some moronic reason costs $100, for the install alone, not including the router, which is property... Stargate SG-1 cancelled - I heard via the Buzz Out Loud podcast tonight that SciFi has declared that this, the 10th season of Stargate SG-1, will be the last. I would like to say I am surprised by this, but I am not. I am, though, saddened by this announcement. I liked the Stargate movie that came out in the early 90's. It wasn't until, I think, the 3rd or 4th season when I came across SG-1, due to the fact that, even though it is filmed in Canada, it did not air in the normal fashion. I believe we were 2 or 3 years behind at the time.
In fact It was aired in several European countries before it aired here in Canada. I recall oddly downloading low res versions of the first few years off a site called SG1Archives, which has since become a news site. The world of Gao'uld, Asgaard, Replicators and more drew me in to the series and I fell in love with the world. I watched excitedly as the series progressed, and then branched off into the Atlantis series. I was sad when I saw O'Neill become a General, kn... KYR Episode 2 released! - I am very happy to tell you all I have finally had the chance to upload the latest episode of Know Your Role, Episode 2, recorded August 11th. The topics are many, the length is about an hour and a half, and the echo is horrendous. I am recording episode 3 tonight, and hope to be online from home by Wednesday night, so hopefully will be able to upload the 3rd episode then. Enjoy my thoughts on the Burning Crusade, Patch 1.12: Drums of War, and democracy in WoW, I present the Offline Edition of Know Your Role.
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