A laptop portable would be the preferred and graceful means to retrieve fault codes from this vehicle’s onboard computer. Unfortunately, the proprietary serial interface cable dongle from my tool box needs a COM port and (all my) computing devices have evolved toward USB 2.0. The only machine in the house with a vestigial serial port was this heavy weight which I manhandled, peripherals, CRT, trailing cables and all, to the garage. Of course, a dealer could do all of this for you… 75 bucks!
Apple’s release of the iPod w/video created a media buzz. Now you can download selected ABC-Disney network programing via the iTunes store for a moderate fee of $1.99 per episode. Apple is providing a way for the mainstream to capture and carry it anywhere and as simply as possible.
If you don’t own the latest and greatest iPod (or wish to fork over the download fees) there is another way! The first step is to record a TV program. VHS tape is so old tech. TiVo, SageTV, or BeyondTV are great PC TV enhancement PVR choices allowing you to save your show for later viewing at your convenience. Your recording is stored on your PC’s hard drive as a file. That file, as you might imagine, is huuuuuge. The second step then is to make it portable. You could burn it to a DVD… Better still, use a utility called DivX, which will reduce the size of that file using an compression codec (much like your music files are shrunk to mp3 format). An hour long television video at 1.9 Gigibytes can be reduced in size to 112 MB. This is small enough that you don’t need to burn it to a DVD or CD. It will fit on your keychain flash memory. Step 3: Transfer your file to your handheld PDA viewer. Use this utility called Core Pocket Media Player – TCPMP which recognizes the DivX format for viewing. Done! Enjoy the show.
A local airport jog through Tukwilla starts and ends with the mother of all hills. At least 3/4 mile is too steep to run and it becomes a hike instead. 7.1 miles hilly
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Legacy software applications such as the Microsoft Office are about to go obsolete. AJAX, RSS and other new programing techniques have made it possible to provide online document creation with web based applications. If you use Google’s Gmail than you’ve already experienced AJAX, which is used for spell check and contact addressing. Google Maps, another instance. Delay or lag is significantly reduced as you click and drag map objects in your browser. Internet connectivity allows for seamless publishing (public or private), the emailing of, blogging and or news feed syndication of documents. Now add the biggest plus inherent in this online scheme: collaboration. Writely is a striking feature rich adaptation handling WORD type documents. Backpack is an idea for a very slick personal organizer. You no longer have to own the desktop app or keep buying the upgrades. The traditional $oftware model is about to undergo a transformation.
The idea was to jog to Deer Island by way of Winthrop, MA but a missed turn on the return route put me in East Boston. Using the Sun and a sense of direction I chose a DR course which luckily allowed my return — before I expired. The intended path cruises Suffolk Downs Race Track, Short Beach, and Crystal Cove. Distance: 9.2 mi. Mostly level except for some gentle rises.
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Don’t throw it awaaaaay!
Artist: Jeff Weigant
Another score as prolific Google rolls out yet another useful free beta download. The Google VPN client offers a layer of security to those of us surfing the net with easy to snoop WiFi. All of the up and down bits and bytes are encrypted and flow through cyberspace via Google Servers as described thusly. Not that there isn’t a lock that can’t be picked… We trust that the mothership won’t mine our data ;-0
Not a place that I aspire to it but Revere Beach does have the ocean view on the one side so it does have merit. I saw many scrappy, rough looking retirees, some with Florida quality tans getting their sunshine worship. I can’t report on the sand as a running surface but the blvd sidewalk is ultra wide. From hotel to turn back point: 6.4 mi and flat.
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Smooth running in the Jacksonville Tradeport. The infrastructure is in place for a planned office business park/industrial development. But until the building phase commences a perimeter view of natural wooded area is a superior. No cars mixing it up neither. The trace route loop is 5.9 miles of wide sweeping blvds.
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were, or knew somone who knew a nerd you might enjoy Napoleon Dynamite – a film. (S’man is pretty good with the soundbytes)