8.8 Earthquake Near Concepcion Chile

8.8 Earthquake Near Concepcion Chile. (Sismo, Temblor, Terremoto)

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Chile TV

Chile TV 13 http://tele13.canal13.cl/

Old One  Despues, Haz click <<Entrar>> y a la izquierda <<Chile TV>> http://sudacotv.webcindario.com/

Old One Chile TV Live http://es.justin.tv/sudaco49#r=DDh2utU~

Old one Chile TV Live http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tv-de-chile

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Chilean Red Cross @ CruzRojainforma on Twitter

@ CruzRojainforma en Twitter

-LUGAR DE DONACIÓN I REGIÓN DE TARAPACÁ:Fono/Fax: 057-430429 Concepción Nº 2750 – Poblacion Ruben Godoy – Iquique      01/03/2010  3:17pm

LUGAR DE DONACIÓN II REGIÓN DE ANTOFAGASTA: Comité Regiónal de Antofagasta Adamson Nº 3354 – Casilla 211 – Antofagasta Fono/Fax: 055-222300

LUGAR DE DONACIÓN IV REGIÓN DE COQUIMBO:Comité Regiónal Atacama y CoquimboO’Higgins Nº 445 – Edificio Florencia – La Serena Fono 051-219994

LUGAR DE DONACIÓN V Región ValparaísoAlvarez Nº 462- Casilla 8029 – Viña del Mar Fono: 032-883307 Fax: 032-697995

LUGAR DE DONACIÓN VI Región Gral. Lib.Bdo. O’Higgins:Comité Regiónal L.B. O’Higgins Campos Nº 563 – Rancagua Fono/Fax: 072-642594  01/03/2010  3:20pm

LUGAR DE DONACIÓN IX Región de la Araucanía:Comité Regional de la Araucanía Av. Alemania Nº 059 – Cas. 1799 Temuco f: 045-214405  01/03/2010  3:21pm

LUGAR DE DONACIÓN XComité Regional Los Lagos, Aysén y Los Ríos 01/03/2010 3:27pm

LUGAR DE DONACIÓN X REGION Comité Regional Los Lagos Antonio Varas Nº 216, Edificio Torre del Puerto, Oficina Nº 404, PTO MONTT 065-275828

LUGAR DE DONACIÓN Región Metropolitana, Independencia 339-INDEPENDENCIA, Seminario 973-ÑUÑOA, de 09:00 a 21:00.

donaciones, cuenta corriente del BancoEstado número 362883 Rut 70.512.100-1 para ayudar a damnificados, este es el medio mas eficiente.   01/03/2010 3:30 pm

escuchenos en CR La RAdio www.cruzrojamedia.net, informacion de donaciones en vivo 02/03/2010 12:29 pm

Estamos recibiendo aportes en dinero en la cuenta corriente del Banco Estado número 362883 Rut 70.512.100-1mail finanzas@cruzroja.cl  02/03/2010 3:15 pm

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Google Person Finder _______  (Se Busca La Persona)

en Español http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/?lang=es

in English http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/

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Lista de gente muerta identificada en Talca,Constitucion y Maule

@ revistalapagina  en Twitter 01/03/2010  1 AM

http://cerck.blogspot.com/2010/02/lista-de-gente-muerta-identificada-en.html

http://revistalapagina.com/

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@ UniversiaChile

Atención: Las universidades que organicen actividades de ayuda, por favor, informar a Universia, al mail mariela.lazo@gmail.com. Gracias! 28/02/2010  7:25pm

La gran tienda Jumbo en Santiago

@ DavodVasquez El Jumbo de Valparaíso (en Av. Argentina con Brasil) estará abierto hasta las 21 hrs. #terremotochile #Chile 7 minutes ago via web 8:20pm 27/02/2010

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Donations Links (No way to verify these, Check them before you use them)

@ CarolinaMillan To donate $ from abroad http://tinyurl.com/yhbccx8 #terremotochile (via @dvercelli @macasarmiento )  http://danielvercelli.tumblr.com/post/422057793/to-my-friends-abroad-that-want-to-help-my-homeland 02/03/2010 12:55 pm

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Earthquake and aftershocks

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php

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Some pictures fotos del 8.8 Earthquake Chile del Twitter

@ JoseAg1 http://twitpic.com/photos/JoseAg1

@ CarolinaMillan Viña Valparaiso  http://twitpic.com/photos/CarolinaMillan

@RodrigoBNO http://twitpic.com/photos/RodrigoBNO

46 Meg .MOV file that models how the quake caused the Tsunami

This animation of the wave pattern from the Chilean quake is amazing. http://bit.ly/c0San1 via @cdibona and others?

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Sea Buoy data related to the Tsunami situation

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

Hawaii Buoy Data

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=51407&type=2&seriestime=20100227203245

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Hawaii Tsunami

CBS has the best view. http://www.ustream.tv/cbsnews

@ShortWaveRadio http://www.shortwaveaudio.com/live-hawaii-tsunami-video-and-frequencies/

Twitter Fail – This Time It’s Privacy

BE CAREFUL #twitter #fail just DEFAULTED to let others find you by email addy #privacy

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It started today 02/26/2010 with a pop-up asking me to let others find me easier by email and that option was PRE-CHECKED.

I UNCHECKED it and clicked “Ask me later” (The other choice was “Good to go” which I WAS NOT.

Fearing they would violate my  privacy anyway, I immediately clicked on settings… and guess what…. “Allow others to find you by email” was STILL CHECKED.

I then UNCHECKED it AGAIN and after having to provide my password YET AGAIN, I finally unchecked it.

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The first trouble I had (and still am having) with TWITTER, was that on my FIRST account…is that one day I started having a situation where my password stopped working for no apparent reason.   I had no choice but to ask for it RESET and fine… it was fixed.

Then a week or so later, it would happen again and I’d have to reset it AGAIN.

Eventually that process NO LONGER WORKED.

I tracked down TWITTER employees.  The first wasn’t able to fix it, but said it was an UNKNOWN password problem that the engineers were checkning into.

She did at least verify that the work ticket I had submitted was in.

I evantually heard back from another employee that still deferred to TWITTER engineers checking on the password issue.

Eventually, that second employee fessed up that my LEGACY account that had TWITTER in the user name was the actual cause of the mystery password failures and now a freezing of my account.

The second employee said that since I had the word TWITTER in my username that I would no longer be able to use the account with that USER NAME and that he could assist me in renaming my LEGACY account.

I said….not right now….ty

It’s still frozen.

My first account is still frozen in limbo by #twitter #fail http://twitter.com/meontwitter

Bloom Energy – Bloom Box Energy Cells

A very interesting green energy invention presented on 60 Minutes 2/21/2010

According to this broadcast, pilot units are already being tested by Google, FedEx, Walmart and Ebay.

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Dr. KR Sridhar is the co-founder and CEO of Bloom Energy and comes from a background in mechanical and nuclear engineering and has done Mars work for NASA.

In the 60 Minutes segment, he guestimates that eventually these fuel cell units could be available to consumers for approximately $3000.

There will supposedly be a major announcement on Wednesday, February 24, 2010.  Stock ipo ?

http://www.bloomenergy.com/

Bloom Energy appears to be getting Venture Capital help from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

http://www.kpcb.com/team/index.php?KR%20Sridhar

Here is the CBS 60 Minutes interview Dr. Sridhar did with Leslie Stahl

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228923n

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Here is some of the Mashable coverage on 2/24/2010.

http://mashable.com/2010/02/24/bloom-box-launch/

More to come on this as it develops

Protect Your Heart at Every Age

Here’s an interesting article on heart health and habits.

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It gives you incite to good and bad heart health habits at many age ranges.

http://health.yahoo.com/featured/82/protect-your-heart-at-every-age/

Human Genome – Whole Genomes and the People

Phenotypic correlations for variations in whole genomes.

http://twit.tv/fib54

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Dr. George Church (Harvard Medical School) was on fib54 with Leo Laporte and Dr. Marc Pelletier].

People that participated in Trait-o-matic Sequenced Genomes is on http://snp.med.harvard.edu/ Leo Laporte is thinking to participate.

Adam Carolla, the Mogul ?

Joining the ranks of Leo Laporte and Tom Green, Adam Carolla sets out on making his own network.

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http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/

Here is a recent interview of the Aceman with Entrepreneur.com

http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/successstories/article204944.html

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Also, here is Mike McAllens’s interview with Adam’s podcast Producer Mike Cioffi.

http://grassshackroad.com/meetings-podcast/interview-with-mike-cioffi-producer-of-the-adam-carolla-podcast

Mugtug SketchPad is Awesome!

This is awesome!

http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

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Pen Calligraphy, Swatch are VERY cool.

I just got my graffiti degree  haha.

An Example I made in Minutes!

More to come as this one develops.

The State of the Atom

Just a quick posting reminding the reader that the old days of a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by orbitals of electrons has been long since replaced by subatomic particles and forces.

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Here was an interesting site I found highlighting the state of understanding the atoms we know and love.

http://www.benbest.com/science/standard.html

Denny’s Free Grand Slam Tues. Feb. 9, 2010

Don’t forget the Denny’s Free Grand Slam 6a to 2 p Today Tues Feb 9, 2010 http://www.dennys.com/superbowl/splash2.html via the Super Bowl promotion ad.

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Apple iPad From $499

The  iPad $829 with 3G and $499 (16Gig) with only wifi

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No camera…

No USB ports

Only one app at a time (not counting iTunes)

AAPL  Apple stock starting to finally take off $210 and climbing http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl

and now down to $192 as of 01/29/2010

More to come as it develops

Adam Carolla on Loveline Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Adam Carolla will be on Loveline with Dr. Drew

on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

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Get it ON !

No choice but to get it on.

http://www.lovelineshow.com/

Listen at that site Sun to Thurs 10pm to midnight Pacific time.

Dana Carvey and Spike Feresten Feb 2010 FOX

He’s back….

Per Spike Feresten, he and Dana Carvey will have a new comedy show pilot on FOX in February 2010.

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http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/01/11/dana-carvey-and-spike-feresten-teaming-up-for-new-show/

A nightly gig? or more likely…

midnights on FOX.. when we all know who is watching…

and while we don’t condone watching FOX at anytime…

…Please enjoy… Electric Church Lady….

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More to come on this one as it develops…

Dual Boot Triple Boot Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10 and XP

As you probably know by now, Win 7 doesn’t use the boot.ini file like previous versions of Windows.

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All three OS’s insist on taking over the mbr boot process.  If you always reloaded all three OS’s in the order of oldest Win first, the next oldest Win, then newest Win, and finally Ubuntu with grub preferably on fd0=floppy (because hd0=Hard Drive has traditionally been prone to failure at some point).

The problem quickly arises when you need to reload one of the OS’s.  If you go out of  “order”, then the last one takes over the mbr boot up and may or may not see one or more of the others.

This is unacceptable.

Supposedly you can edit the boot sequence on the Windows 7 side with \Windows\System32\bcdedit.exe

My experience was that I get “access denied” even when I am in Administrator mode.   There is also a bcdboot.exe  My experience so far is a big fat fail on this one.

Boot.ini will show the partition for the XP (and older Win versions) but that doesn’t help with Win 7 or the others.

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I found a freeware from @neosmart (on twitter) http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 called EasyBCD Ver 1.7.2

After repairing my lost Win 7 using the Win 7 CD, I ran EasyBCD on the Win 7 side and did “add entry” to find the XP pro partition.

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Another time the Win 7 CD Repair saw the Win  7 ntfs, but still didnt fix the mbr and I was still stuck booting to XP only.

In this case, I still installed EasyBCD Ver 1.7.2, but it had errors when I tried to run it on this XP pro SP2.

To get rid of the Easy BCD errors, I had to download and install “MS Installer Ver 3.1, and then install dotNET Ver 2.0 SP1  (in one place I saw that you might have to also install the dotNET Ver 2.0 SP2)

At any rate, EasyBCD once again saw the Win7, and I had to add the XP entry and let it “Make MBR” and on reboot, all was well again.

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I used Sun Virtual Box (free) and loaded Ubuntu 9.10 into a pre-formatted ntfs partition.  This is a slower work-around solution til they get the MANDATORY Grub2 tuned better.  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

More to come on this as it develops…

Sony Cybershot DSC-T1 Digital Camera Recall

Sony had a recall on the Cybershot DSC-T1 5Mpixel digital camera for the ccd sensor going out/image distortion 1-800 222-7669

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You Aint Fresh – The Boogie Boys

You aint fresh… Uh uh… naw baby….

You aint fresh,,,so go hay… with ya self…

You aint fresh…naw,, not you…

You aint freh… freh… Fresh….

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I have been trying to remember the name and group for

this rap for quite a while and FINALLY I found the

cassette I had from years… ago.

The Boogie Boys – off the the cassette – City Life.

“And you got big BUNION on your big toe…

Im gonna tell you to your face… SO-THAT-YOU-KNOW….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isz5zDXA6Xw

(about 30 seconds into this…)

Enjoy

I Lost My Best Friend on Aug 24

I Lost My Best Friend on Aug 24.

This posting is in honor of my mother.

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I love you mom!

Frankly, I couldn’t even bare to blog at all til now.  None of the things I usually comment on are any where near the gravity of this one.

The grieving and healing process is underway I suppose, although some days that seems a great distance away.  (Some have said it will take at least a year…)

Maybe it’s the closest bomb shell blast to me… a chilling reminder of my own mortality.

I close this one with tears streaming down my face….  I don’t cry for her… I cry for me.

Now, with much prayer and the grace of God and Jesus, I attempt to rebuild and continue life.

*** This posting may very well receive an overwhelming amount of responses, so please don’t be offended if I don’t post them all.

Someone Took the Dick Out of Dick Blick

While it sounds…   like a rude comment…

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it’s actually just a name change it seems.

This excellent store  for getting professional art supplies has gone at some point from Dick Blick to Blick Art Materials.

Maybe Dick retired.   Tune in next… for more company sign changes…

Windows 7 RC1 Build 7100

You can download it free til August 20, 2009

**** Annoying bi-hourly time outs from Mar 1, 2010 til June 01.2010 phase out of the RC trial – Time to buy or move on soon.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd353205.aspx

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Per Microsoft, here is what you need to have for the PC:

“Here’s what you need to have:

• Internet access (to download Windows 7 RC and get updates)
• A PC with these minimum recommended specifications:
  - 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher
  - 1 GB of system memory or more
  - 16 GB of available disk space
  - Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)
  - DVD-R/W Drive”

*** I wanted to keep using FAT 32 but you MUST use NTFS on this partition to install to.

My desktop PC is a 1.4 Ghz AMD +1700 32bit with 750 Meg Ram and I loaded it into a 8.36Gig partition as 1 of 3 Win versions in this triple boot machine.

The actual minimum footprint was 6.57 Gig in my install of Win 7 RC1 Build 7100.  I have restore points turned off.  Im sure with all possible feaures on and updates that you quickly get to the 16Gig that they require.

I was NOT able to put this on an old laptop because this old Compaq Presario 1255 only has only 168 Meg of ram.

The Win7 32bit RC1 Build 7100 .iso is 2,471,656 bytes (2.4 Gig)

“Normaly” I would “burn image” of this iso on my lite-on DVD burner, which extracts and burns the contained files to a DVD+R in this case.  Although my burns of DVD’s seemed good on my HP DVD+R media, they all got about halfway through the Win 7 install and had the following error:

“Windows cannot install required files.  The file maybe be corrupt or missing>.. Error code 0×80070017

This was evidently a common error in loading Vista too.

All I could find was recommendations to go with x1 or x2 speed and use DVD-R media (maybe Verbatim brand).  I didnt have that handy… so now what…

First off, i had to reformat my G: drive everytime as NTFS.

I used Undisker to extract the .iso to the XP (F:\) partition and then after booting into XP, I ran setup for Win 7 from there.  The “size on disk” of the files was2.37 GB (2,551,152,640 bytes).  This avoided a need to buy DVD-R disks.

*** You MUST also have about 990 Meg of free C:\ partition disk space although the Microsoft popup claims to only need 680Meg. Trust me, you get crashes partway through if you dont have enough C:\ space for installation files.

After about an hour of error free install time, I was trying out Win 7 RC1.

This free release candidate is supposed to be ok til March 01, 2010.  After that you can only use it a few hours at a time and then not at all after June 2010.  See microsoft site for details and any changes/clarifications to their offer.

*** I recently heard from someone that used DVD-R disk and used PowerISO for the burn and that worked too.

Converting .MP3 audio to .AU

I have tried for several months to find out what software is best for this.

FINALLY, I figured out a way to export a .mp3 as .au in Audacity.

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Why would one want .au audio files you ask?  It is the main audio format used in Java programs of which I occasionally write.

I am using Audacity Ver 1.2.4.

You open the .mp3 file in Audacity.

(You have to have downloaded and installed the Lame MP3 and the FFmpeg add on files for Audacity first)

Then you can [File] then  [Export] which gives you an opportunity to enter/edit artist and other id3 tag info.

Then you can chose the file type you want the .mp3 exported as.

You select “uncompressed” and then there is an “advanced” option where you select .au and you want the uLaw version of that.  You type in .au on the end of the file and save and it exports to .au

Pandigital PAN602-W 6″ LCD Photo Frame

It’s been six very long months and FINALLY, I have video playing (with sound).

The jpg photos and .mp3 sound are relatively easy to get going.

But video…  (described as .AVI) is a ROYAL PAIN.  I’m guessing most have given up.

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I called Pandigital and they told me to google Motion JPEG 3.2.4

That leads you to an MJPEG codec from Mainconcepts that I couldnt get to work.   The .avi is considered a “wrapper” for the MJPEG by the way.

Then I came across this posting:

http://www.fixya.com/support/t1391643-pandigital_7_photo_frame_play_video

bjamieson083 helped a lot by identifying what works evidently for a 7″ frame that Pandigital also sells.

Download the free converter program “MJPEG StreamClip Ver 1.2 and

also either regular QuickTime or there is a alternate Quicktime program Ver 1.8.1 (but NOT both).  I used the regular Quicktime Ver 7.6.2

Inside MJPEG Streamclip, you Open File and then “Export AVI”

For his 7″ frame, he recommended using the Apple MJPEG A compression.

That does NOT work for the PAN602-W frame.

*** The Apple MJPEG A does work IF you use “uncompressed” for the audio.

The Apple MJPEG B compression does work with 4:3 ratio.

The next issue that would yield “Not Supported” is the audio choice.

MP3 does NOT work.  MP2 doesnt work, but at least the MJPEG B video would work.

To get video AND sound on the PAN602-W      6″ LCD Photo Frame:

I started with .mpg (one) and mp2 audio from my Sony T1 camera that does video too.

Export as AVI from MJPEG Streamclip Ver 1.2

Video compression = Apple MJPEG B or Apple MJPEG A

4:3 ratio works

Set to Video Deinterlaced

Sound = Uncompressed

I am leaving the quality set at 50% (the default) for now, although I got 80% to work.  I didnt notice a huge improvement and the file size goes up quite a bit.

I had originally tried MP3 for the sound and that yields the whole file “Not Supported”

At some point, I will try to go back to the MJPEG 3.2.4 and retry it with Uncompressed audio.  More to come as it happens

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Nonsensical Angry Comments are the New Spam?

This may be a temporary posting.  We will see.  Got some very strange, angry, nonsensical comments to this on 6/19/2009.

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I think they amount to SPAM, but were far more ranting than the average Cialis giberish.

One went on at length about background images?

If others with blogs see this posting, I’d be interested if this is a new trend.

Turd in the Punch Bowl

This was a funny surprise last week on the McLaughlin Group, when I still had PBS (analog).

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John McLaughlin makes a funny comment at 18:19 into the 06/05/2009 show.

http://www.mclaughlin.com/library/rss.asp

11:59PM Friday, June 12, 2009 Analog TV R.I.P.

Actually over the two days of June 11 and 12, the analog transmitters of over the air broadcasters in the US, slowly but surely went off for the last time.

I already had a USDTV Hisesnse DB 2010 converter/tuner  box, however I managed to lose the remote leaving it useless.

So…..  I went to Best Buy and got an Apex converter box with analog pass through to address the situation.

I lost reception of two very good PBS affiliates because the DTV signals are effectively weaker, yielding a lower radius of coverage.  Also, I am in close proximity to several trees which likely didnt help the situation.

I picked up one channel that runs weather radar quite a bit, so that was cool.  However, no more Charlie Rose, No more McLaughlin Group and no more This Old House….  for me….    I will try playing with other antenna locations in hopes of getting at least one PBS channel back.

So,  I think this was a needless transition where I spent money and lost 2 PBS affiliates.    Some more CHANGE we didnt need.

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Check Out My MiniURL

Heard about this on Net@Night with @leolaport and @ambermac (macArthur)and recent serial guest @sarahlane

Sarah demoed the multiurl.com site where you can put several links that you wanna share with others.

Check out my first MultiURL !

http://www.multiurl.com/l/6E

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Sammy Hagar ( Chickenfoot )

I guess I have been living under a rock.

Just learned on Twitter (Thanks @edythemighty)

that the cool new CD by Chickenfoot is Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani (guitar), Michael Anthony (bass) and Chad Smith (drums).

Tunes include:

Soap on a Rope.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Soap_On_A_Rope/22423193

and

Down The Drain

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Down_The_Drain/22423194

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Check Out My First Prezi Presentation!

It’s a zommable UI ( ZUI ).   Kinda like Power Point, but based on the zoom and move style.

Here’s my first try.  “How to use Twitter” haha  (but you get the idea)

http://prezi.com/94119/view/#12

My second prezi to point to my first Animoto video. (I have an artsy side)

http://prezi.com/96139/view

My third prezi has video.

http://prezi.com/100577/view/#2

You can use zamzar.com for example to convert your vid to a .flv flash file that Prezi uses for now.

Audio can be inserted.  It has to be .flv for a one time play and .swf for continuous play.  The help listed this as a workaround.  I assume other methods are coming.

Click on the bottom right arrow to advance the “slides” and you move around the presentation.  Many seem to be layed out in a quasi-circle, but I think you can line them up.  My big presentation layout looks like a crude flowchart.

One weird thing was…

To move/scale a “group” of things on a frame/slide together, you have to left mouse (while holding down the Shift key) to select them together and then the Zebra “Place”/Move/Scale/Rotate tool will adjust all of the selected ones together.

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This was Leo’s pick of the week on Mac Break Weekly 143.

Make your own at http://www.prezi.com

I found a Prezi manual at:

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:nFjzCzLM5C0J:blog.prezi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/prezi-manual.pdf

Here is a site that I found with a slicker more professional look using prezi.

http://staceygreenwell.blogspot.com/2009/05/snazzy-presentations-with-prezi.html

Click on the my Prezi web 2.0 link in the fourth paragraph and then on the “open” in the prezi site (center of the page).

More to come as I get more into this one.

Daily Show – Cher Concert – Samantha Bee – Mayor Lloyd

Daily Show – Cher Concert – Samantha Bee

November 17, 2003.

Mayor Russ Lloyd, Jr. chooses the Cher concert over a city council meeting about sewage in Evansville, Indiana.

This old Daily Show is sooo funny  http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=127221&title=if-these-shoes-could-talk SamanthaB

If these shoes could talk …….

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Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew On Loveline May 10

@AdamCarolla n @DrDrew on Loveline Sun May 10 through Thurs May 14

ReTweet this already.

Anderson?  Is the fax machine broken?  or just out of paper?

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Talkshow with Spike Feresten – No Fourth Season

Don’t know about you all… but I’ve had all the hope and change I need…

Did BO buy FOX now?

All humor aside… I sadly note that Talkshow with Spike Feresten will not be renewed for a fourth season.

The recent bonehead FOX suit decisions started with dumping MadTV.

And the most recent includes dumping Spike’s show.

Spike has truly cut a lot of new ground and the suits want the daily mush with no edge.

Let’s see… Wasn’t “In Living Color” on FOX ?  It rocked til the suits took control and poof.. gone.

Per Wikipedia  “Keenen Ivory Wayans left the show in 1992 after the end of the third season, over disputes with Fox about the network censoring the show’s content and rerunning early episodes without his consultation.”

More on this after I get over the shock of one of my fav programs going away.

Hang in there SF !

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Michael Savage

Borders, Language and Culture.

The only one telling it like it is… in such crazy times.

Savage was recently banned from entry to the UK by their Home Scretary Jacqui Smith, even though he had no plans to go to the UK.

Ms. Smith is the one that’s come off looking a bit extreme.

Here is the latest story out of England on the Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5288279/Michael-Savage-brands-Jacqui-Smith-a-witch-over-Britains-banned-list.html

Hang in there Michael !!!

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Rev. Manning posted a bold outcry in defense of Michael

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUTa7gSWp4s

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Check the Michael Savage site at http://www.michaelsavage.com as well as his daily radio show. .

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And of course… Living on a Thin Line – The Kinks

There’s no England anymore.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Living_On_A_Thin_Line/7963165

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This just in…

UK Home Secretary to step down…

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99917

It will be interesting to hear what Savage’s take is on this.

Futures in Biotech 42 – Sneezing Pandemic

Futures in Biotech 42 – Sneezing Pandemic

is just out via Leo Laporte, Dr. Marc Pelletier and Randal Schwartz.

The guest is Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.,  a professor of Microbiology at the  Columbia University Medical Center.

They will discuss Mexican Swine Flu (politically correctly renamed H1N1)

http://twit.tv/fib42

It should be interesting and timely.

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Stryker signed off officially at 10:56 p.m. on April 22, 2009.

There is a fair amount of buzz…

Will Adam Carolla come back to Loveline?

Dr Drew twittered on the show (He and Olivia Munn) expressing concern over Loveline ratings.   It’s a no brainer to long time fans that Adam’s return would be just what the doctor ordered.

“Hey ever-body…I’m Adam Carolla and over there is Dr Drew… board certified physician.. and addiction medicine specialist….”

Oh, to hear that opener…. again.

It’s been a long painful time since November 2005.

@DrDrew and @Adamcarolla on twitter

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Recent WordPress.com Postings Categories Don’t Work Right

Recent WordPress.com Postings Categories Don’t Work Right

Hiw do I know this?  No clicks on recent links = FAIL

Please fix.

Give me a few comments if you see this.  I wont be able to post them all….if it’s working.

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Good Music in Honor of the Sham Election…

Ralph Nader… that was wasn’t allowed to deabte…  will be your DJ

Enjoy some pretty good Cuban music.. in honor of the election

http://www.batanga.com/es/artists/cubanismo

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Good Music (Tags Didnt Associate WordPress Please Fix)

Ralph Nader… that was wasn’t allowed to deabte…  will be your DJ

Enjoy some pretty good Cuban music.. in honor of the election

http://www.batanga.com/es/artists/cubanismo

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