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Tsunami Waves At Ocean Beach, SF

Dave — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:20:54 +0000

Well, looks like the normal surf to me…

“Tsunami” Waves at Ocean Beach, Feb. 27, 2010 from Richmond SF Blog on Vimeo.

Upgrading Windows 7 RC to Retail version

Dave — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:23:49 +0000

Now that the installation of Windows 7 RC installed on my Media server is giving me the countdown to death, it’s time to upgrade with a retail copy of Windows 7 Professional. Microsoft doesn’t support upgrading the free Release Candidate version to the retail version, but there is a easy workaround posted at Icrontic. The advantage of doing it this way instead of a ‘clean install’, is that you can keep your installed apps and settings. Another how-to is posted by Colleen of TWiT fame on her site, theV01d.com.

After pondering this for a moment, I decided to just do a clean install. It actually goes quicker than running this hack and I only had a couple programs installed [Boxee and VLC], so re-installing apps was a breeze. I just installed over the old XP partition on my Media box and was up and running. I then deleted the RC partition to free up some space.

Big Social Media Sites Now Using NoSQL

Dave — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:57:39 +0000

Interesting, Twitter and other big players in social media are switching from MySQL (now part of Oracle) to Cassandra (NoSQL), an Apache Software Foundation open source project. Read the article.

Visit to the TWiT Cottage

Dave — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:22:28 +0000

On a lark, I decided to drive up to Petaluma and visit Leo LaPorte’s TWiT Cottage where he and crew produce TWiT.tv shows. During my visit I watched the recording of Macbreak Weekly, which features Leo, Alex Lindsay and Andy Ihnatko.

Mark Malkoff Gets Carried in New York City

Dave — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:54:02 +0000

Interesting social experiment and attempted during freezing weather!

What’s Happening in Oakland!

Dave — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:21:19 +0000

Check out Cool Hunting’s nice video of some of our favorite people and places in Oakland.

The Swedes Are So Appreciative!

Dave — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:46:15 +0000

The Swedes are so appreciative of the little things I do…

Fuzzy Fuzzy Cute Cute?

Dave — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:13:13 +0000

OK, I’m in Parry Gripp jingle phase. Like, today I’m looking at razor blades at the drug store and couldn’t help but have Parry’s More Blades Better Shave play in my head.

Crunchy Taco Blows Up!

Dave — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:06:12 +0000

Jingle Meister Parry Gripp is at it again with his latest video.

Beware of iMovie 8.0.5 Update

Dave — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:17:55 +0000

I love iMovie for making quick little videos from video clips I shoot with my digital cameras. After I attempted to edit some video I shot in Disneyland, I couldn’t get the video clips which are stored in iPhoto’s Library stored on my external hard drive to appear in iMovie without making iMovie crash. I tried all kinds of fixes like deleting preference files in my Library directory etc. Seems there are serious issues with the 8.0.5 update which came out a couple weeks ago. The fix came when I just deleted iMovie and reinstalled version 8.0 from the iLife install disk. Next, I upgraded with the iMovie 8.0.3 update (Apple seems to have removed the 8.0.4 update). My videos then appeared again in iPhoto Videos under the Event Library!