This surprised me: My laptop is an HP DV4, with 4 GB of RAM. I am watching a DVD (Foyle’s War: The German Woman”) playing on Windows Media Player, running on Vista 64. At the same time VirtualBox 3 is running, and on VBox Ubunto 9.04 is running.
My $75 (used, on Craigslist) video camera works. I’ve shot a few (lame!) minutes of video, and have sucesffuly imported it into a computer via Firewire. That process was easy peasy.
Last week I bought a JVC GR-DVM90 video camera. When it was introduced in 2001, the list price was $1,600. Thanks to the passing of time and the abundance of new and oh so shiny objects, I paid $75 for the complete kit. Thank you, Craigslist.
Tom Chikoore, co-founder and CTO of Filtrbox. likes (!) TouchTerm for iPhone.
Claus Valca explains how to “posterize” or print a BIG drawing (way bigger than your printer can natively handle) on multiple sheets of paper you then tape together. Step by step, using free tools. It’s all good.
Peter Macaulay writes: “Skype just announced Skype for the Blackberry over 3G data packets (not just WiFi) in 10 countries.
Carol, Wilson writes in Telephony magazine End of an era: Telecom trade press struggling. Telephony is considering charging for the printed magazine to avoid going web-only.
Radio personality Paul Harvey died recently. Harvey’s signature line — “That’s the rest of the story” — applies perfectly to this follow-up about the recent death of Jason von Straussenbrg.
A Santa Barbara friend sent me this obituary notice which deserves a wider audience.
VON STRAUSSENBURG, Jason
March 15, 2009 9:15 AM
Chris Kelly writes about his original Grand Plan, now trashed by our current aweful economic situation. Please read his post.
Below are excerpts from the article STAIRWAY TO RETAIL HEAVEN by James Quinn, March 3, 2009. [via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed]
I ran across very funny (if slightly not safe for work) video today on Facebook. So, as is my nature, I emailed the link to a very tech savvy friend who I pretty much knew would appreciate the link. But no.