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March 30, 2005

Retail Is Not For Everybody

I hope I get out before I get this bad.

March 29, 2005

iLife How To Book

For any OS X users out there feeling overwhelmed by all the stuff in iLife '05, I'd recommend this book:

Macintosh iLife 05
For $30 it comes with an instructional DVD on how to do a whole schwack of things in iLife that you may not have thought possible.

More Ireland

Oh man, I could spend a lot of time looking at these photos.

U2 live in San Diego


U2 live in San Diego
Originally uploaded by u2log.com.


U2's first show of their tour was last night. By all accounts it seems to have gone 'smashing', as they say in the biz. If you're in to setlists and things, clicky here.

March 28, 2005

Faking the Lomo Effect

How to fake the lomo effect.

When you don't have an actual lomo camera you can make do with Photoshop.

March 26, 2005

Music Streaming Craziness


Music Streaming Craziness
Originally uploaded by iChris.


1. Share music on my powerbook via iTunes

2. Play music from powerbook upstairs on Sue's iBook, wirelessly.

3. Stream music from Sue's iBook to Airport Express and some speakers.

March 25, 2005

Great Ideas Are So Hard To Find

I'm sure this seemed like a really good idea somewhere, to someone.

Here's the Office episode 1 torrent file in case you missed the pilot last night - Save this file. Not much new to fans of the British version, but as I was saying to Sue after we watched it it allows the 'show' to continue on. I'm sure they'll offer different variations on some of the UK episodes, it'll just be interesting to see if it gets to stay on the air. Even as a UK rehash it's still funnier and better written than most US sitcoms.

March 24, 2005

Oh You Look So Beautiful Tonight

Beautiful shots of Dublin.

I wanna go back.

March 23, 2005

The Office (North American style)

I'm nervously excited because the US version of The Office is premiering on Thursday night on NBC. It looks like it will probably follow a similiar story line to the UK version I know and love but it will interesting to see if North American audiences can handle the lack of laugh track and documentary style shooting.

It's really more of an HBO style show so I don't know if it will go over that well here on regular network TV. Either way we still have the original series to enjoy.

March 22, 2005

Life at Pixar

This might just be the best place to work on the planet right now.

Tabbing On Your Website

Pretty neat way to implement tabs on your own website. It would have some interesting application for certain site designs, that's for sure.

March 20, 2005

Flickr Sells Out

Yahoo actually aquires Flickr - rumoured for awhile but now it's actually happened. Hopefully it'll be as cool as if Google had aquired Flickr.

And I don't really believe that Flickr has sold out. It's a very good thing for them and for the users to have the power of Yahoo behind them.

March 19, 2005

ODEO Definied

What ODEO is all about.

March 18, 2005

Ultimate Link Library

Ultimate Link Library - and not one of those crappy full of pop-ups type link libraries either.

Exporting to WMV from Quicktime

Something I know I'm going to need at some point - and $29 is pretty cheap.

U2 in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame

U2 got inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame this week. U2log.com has an excellent write-up - and I get the chance to see what 6000+ hits/day might do to the videos being hosted on my .Mac account. At least Apple's paying for the bandwidth!

Video 1

Video 2

Google Goes Local

Find a local restaurant or a place to get a haircut.

March 16, 2005

Google-X

Google done up Mac OS X dock style - click here to check it out.

For those not part of the iCult, this is what the dock (the thingy at the bottom) does to allow you to see all the icons you may have of programs installed.

March 13, 2005

Batman Animated with Lego

An amazingly well done computer animated Batman short done in the style of LEGO. Featuring the voice of the original Batman, Adam West. Something to get you excited for the new Batman movie coming.

March 11, 2005

Everybody Dance Now

This is what I picture Mark doing whenever Travis leaves.

And in a wierd coincidence, Apple just profiled the director for a new video of the same song that's apparently getting re-issued or something. Brilliant marketing or just dumb luck?

March 9, 2005

Thinking Of (or have) Making A Switch?

Arstechnica.com has a great guide for people who've made the switch from a Windows or Linux machine to their new Mac mini.

Shatner

Shatner doing what common people do.

Quicktime Embedded?

Just trying out some of the new tools that come with Final Cut Express HD - as well as how well it works to embed quicktime in a page. How does it look on your end?

March 7, 2005

Holy Ghost Enema

I was just thinking we need more people preaching about enemas and butt-kissers. That's so postmodern.

Benny Hinn tries to cover up a video making the rounds on the net by threatening to sue. Brilliant.

One sure fire way to cover things up is by drawing a bunch of attention to it through a threatening letter from your crack legal team.

Data That Has Little to no Meaning

How many total songs? 2183

Sort by song name:
First: 'Round Springfield (Medley)', The Simpsons, Songs in the Key of Springfield
Last: 'Zooropa (Ultra Rare Radio Edit US)', U2, Papya

Sort by time:
Shortest: 'Champagne Cork', Skywalker Sounds, DotMac iMovie Sound Effects (0:01)
Longest: 'Better Man', Oasis, Heathen Chemistry (38:02)

Sort by album:
First: (What's The Story) Morning Glory, Oasis
Last: Zooropa, U2

Top Ten Most-Played songs:
Sometimes You Can't..., U2
Miracle Drug, U2
City of Blinding Lights, U2
Love and Peace or Else, U2
One Step Closer, U2
Vertigo (Single Version), U2
Crumbs From Your Table, U2
O Praise Him, David Crowder Band
Kite, U2
A Man and a Woman, U2

Ten most recently-played songs (newest to oldest):
The entire Pilate 'Caught by the Window' album

Find "sex;" how many songs show up? 1
Find "death;" how many songs show up? 1
Find "love;" how many songs show up? 147

meme from a fellow named Chris.

Classic Games Remade - Privateer

Either you were a computer gaming geek back in the day and know how much fun this was/is or you'll think - why would someone play something with such crappy graphics?

March 5, 2005

Blogging Pastors?

Didja know that Bruce has a blog? He's taking his first baby steps into the world of blogging. Go and leave him a comment to make him feel welcome. (He's the lead pastor of the church we go to and that Sue works at - also the father of the 4 girls we looked after last weekend)

Pastor Paul has been blogging for awhile now and is always looking for people to get involved in discussion.

Of course Mark has been blogging for a couple years now - though his isn't as church focused as the other two.

You can get all this info as well as how to subscribe to the various RSS/XML feeds off of the Forest Grove site by clicking here. (after you go download a RSS reader first!)

My Dear God Letter

Dear God,

Please birth something from these passions you've given me, or take them away. I'm sick of mediocrity.

Thanks,

March 3, 2005

My New Bestest Friend Evar


My New Bestest Friend Evar
Originally uploaded by iChris.


NetNewsWire Is The Biz-Omb

I don't know what I was thinking using Newsfan before - NetNewsWire is the bestest RSS reader for OS X. Once v. 2.0 is out of beta, I'll be sending them my money for all this sweet honey.

Family in Far Off Places

My cousin Danny and his wife Kimberly are in Japan teaching English and have photos up here.

More Fonty Goodness

300 free TrueType fonts for your designing pleasure.

March 1, 2005

Symbol Signs

Cool collection of common symbol signs - available for free!

Tour of Duty: 2005

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I had a bunch of stuff written but I couldn't get it to come out right. Long story short, we spent the last 5 days looking after Bruce & Lisa's kids while they were gone to Fresno for a conference. It was a lot more fun than everyone who asked us about it seemed to think it should have been. I guess most people who don't have their own kids don't realize how much life and energy kids give to you - people just see them as life and energy drains. I'd say that you might just be selfish and could use some more time around a kid or two to get some perspective back in life.

I even managed to use my old Mario Bros. skills to help Hannah (top right) with Super Mario Bros. on her Gameboy. I knew those skills would come in handy one day.