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… 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.

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.

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…

You can download it free til August 20, 2009

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.

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

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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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.

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

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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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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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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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

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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@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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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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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

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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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

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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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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What … a …. messs…..

More later.

Civilian National Security Force?   WTF… I had missed that one… Welcome to Cuba

Or maybe Chavez in Venezuela?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

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I’ve never had trouble with my registration.  According to this, some have.  They give some advice.  FYI.

http://goodvote.org/

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Judge Surrick rules on October 24, 2008 to dismiss the case filed by Philip J. Berg in Philadelphia District Court concerning Barack Obama’s birth records and his eligibility to serve as President of the United States if elected.

The actual document is on Justia.

http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/pennsylvania/paedce/2:2008cv04083/281573/28/

Interesting interpretation of the first conclusion…   ” Berg lacked standing to bring the suit because he did not face direct harm even if the allegations were true”  This is posted on the University of Pennsylvania School of Law website by Devin Montgomery.  He notes that Berg plans to appeal.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/10/federal-judge-dismisses-obama.php

I heard about all this when Berg was interviewed on the SavageNation with Michael Savage (Weiner).

Here is the Savage interview.  http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=2256

So it doesn’t seem as if this got a fair shake and was dumped on a technicality and not on the evidence…

If any lawyer types come across this posting… Please sound off.  If an actual assessment of the evidence was derailed on a technicality… Justice?  Really?

And the US Constitution…

http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Constitution.html

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5

“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

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Number one, I’m sure there are several of these historical empires that most have never heard of.

Not sure what that says about the educational systems around…

Need to get Eugen Weber (The Western Tradition) to do one of these.

Also, at the end this comes off a lil weird as it gets to the establishment of Isreal as a state.

Some odd extra focus put on Baghdad and Jeruselum which seems at best odd…  Poliitical statement?

Dunno.  At any rate… I give it “I” for interesting and good animation work.

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

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Hydrogen Sulfide…  I always thought I gave off methane… haha.   This evidently is given off by cells in your blood vessels… which helps relax them and lowers blood pressure…  interesting…to see where this leads…

http://www.livescience.com/health/081023-farts-blood-pressure.html

Now I can feel better about a big “paint peeler” fart….  Just lowering my blood pressure… the old fashioned way.

Props to Edythemighty for the scoop on this one.

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Why won’t the government let him participate in the Presidential Debates?

Why won’t Michael Savage talk about this Independent’s run for 2008 ???

Ralph Nader is the only candidate in November 2008 that claimed he would try to deal with the return of 20 million plus invaders in the US.

Savage, I challenge you to mention this candidacy whether you agree with him or not.

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Finally had Nader on the show… the day before the election?  Really?

Gracias Señor Savage… pretty timely there.

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Ahhmmmm  Why isn’t Savage mentioning this??? She is running against Cindy Sheehan, who may be equally,,, Umm interesting…  But still.

What’s the scoop oh Ye of San Fran Frreako?

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She’s baaaaaacccckkkk!

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Here’s what we know so far…

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bill_gates_new_company.php

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Tina Fey is so gonna get Tom McCann elected despite his best efforts to throw the election to BO.

Awesome (and gutsy move) Governor Palin, Tina, and Amy Poehler haha   The rap was awesome!!!

Opening monologue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqk2Akk1k-0 dead link

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/gov-palin-cold-open/773761/

Weekend Update and Amy Peohler rap…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7vDO9FHLk dead link

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-palin-rap/773781/

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“I screwed up”  says McCain about ditching Letterman for Couric,  in easily his best tv appearance so far.

Someone put up the opening monologue clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYg736UiTM

The interview.

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

Here is a cnn article so far.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/17/mccain.letterman/

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Very interesting but I went off to sleep on it.   This is a good one to check out the podcast if it comes to

http://charlierose.com

Nancy outlines some of the timeline of recent Bailout plan events.

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