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I got out Sunday and mowed the yard. A nice day, pretty out. And made a timelapse of it. The movie is too quick, but my yard is so small i should have just recorded it as a normal movie instead of a timelapse..then i could just speed up the framerate and be done.

Then I proceeded to replace the shocks in the truck. I bought a little 98 Tacoma recently, as a daily beater, home depot hauler and to keep the miles off the RX-8. And maybe a little 4x4 action from time to time. I noticed that when driving 60+ MPH on the highway, if you hit even the slightest bump it dances around for a while....not very reassuring of your vehicle and probably not safe either. Further investigation showed that my shocks are shot. And one is blown so bad there is a hole in the side. Yike! So at the recommendation of Eddy, I bought some Bilstein's as a performance upgrade. They were about $300 total for all 4. The rears were the worst so I installed them first. And I made a neat little movie that is a 10 second how-to. Hope you can follow. The difference is amazing, no more wobbling on the higway and I only did the back shocks! Bumps are soo nice now! Highly recommended to you older Toyota owners.

Well, 636 minutes of a Friday. The camera (a Canon S80) did well, I am suprized that it captured that much. Course, I had to restart it every 100 minutes or so (a limitation of the camera). I just restarted it whenever I thought of it. Overall, easy to do. Notice the x4100 on the floor. Thanks Burt! But the best part...check out the boxes moving, the darts dancing....Ian had a little fun with the cam while I was at lunch...hilarious!

It's been a good week. I've finalized 3 big deals for work that I've been working on for months. I almost didn't know what to do when I was done. So I took some time, did something fun and setup an internal gallery for everyone at work to use. I uploaded a few hundred pics I've taken into it. I used 'Gallery 2.1.1' as the package. It's gotten a lot better since the 2.0.0 days, I would recommend it to anyone that needs a nice picture gallery. I will probably migrate away from IDS that I've been using (and which hasn't been really updated) over the last 6 years.

Another video this week. I'm on a rampage! From a meeting of the San Diego Software Industry Council on Thursday:


John Don't Speak
Description: At a panel discussion where John and I will NOT be speaking.


Supposed to rain this weekend. Hopefully there is a little sunshine so I can mow the yard and have time to get inspired to work on the truck and the Fiat.

This clip of my monday workday is 100 minutes compressed into 10 seconds. Check out how the twizzlers move around. :)

It's been a while since I have written anything in my little blog. I left Qualcomm and now work for an online video startup in San Diego called 'vMix'. Anyway, I've been working hard for a few months and haven't had much of a chance to get to blog-ercize. Or whatever.

But I did order some toys recently, one of which is a digital camera (Canon S80) that takes some great video and will do time-lapse sessions automatically. I've been fask-inated with time-lapse for years and have always been making movies of the sky moving or ice melting or activites of my neighborhood out my window. I was playing around with the new cam this weekend and made 2 quick time-lapse videos. One is of my boring activities on a Saturday Night, the other is me installing CentOS 4.3 on an old dev server. Enjoy!