There's a lot of online backup companies out there that give you a good amount of space for free. So why Mozy? It's the only one that I know of that has both a windows and an os x client. But it also has block level increment and bandwidth throttling which are important to me.

Found this when I was doing some favicons, but realized it might help me with my homescreen I'm working on. There were plenty of other png to ico apps and websites out there, but this one had the best quality results. But because it includes 48x48, 32x32 and 16x16 32bit resources in the file, the size is pretty big.

Took a nice little vacation to Disneyland and San Diego last week. Logan, I think, had a pretty good time. I can't tell if it was because of the places we went or because he got Mom and Dad's undivided attention 24/7. He didn't seem to fully get Disneyland. I suspect he's too young to connect the movies with the place, but he still had a lot of laughs. The character breakfast with Lilo & Stitch was a big hit. Monorail, huge hit. Pirates of the Caribbean, not so much. Winnie The Pooh, yes. Haunted Mansion, I think he's scarred for life; in hind-sight that wasn't such a good parenting decision.

2007 FORMULA 1 Bahrain Grand PrixBahrain 15 April Race Results MASSAFerrari1h33m27.515s HAMILTONMcLaren+2.360s RAIKKONENFerrari+10.839s Fastest Lap Massa1m34.067slap 42 Lap Distance 3.362miles/5.3790km Lap Record Michael Schumacher 1m30.252s Race Distance 191.634miles/306.6140km Number of Laps 57 Nothing much exciting to say about this one. Hamilton's third podium out of his third ever F1 race. He's now tied with Kimi and Alonso for the championship. The press is really latching onto him and I shudder a little at how bad they're going to beat him when he inevitably falls from grace. He's enjoying himself now, hopefully he'll be able to shrug it off. Not sure what happened to Kimi. Looked like he got frustrated not being able to get around Alonso early and then just phoned it in once he got around him in the pits. Which, realistically was all he could do. If he'd kept Massa and Hamilton closer he might've made some ground, but his car looked twitchy all race. The big story for me was a BMW passing Alonso. It's looking like BMW might not just be best of the rest but a solid #3. To put it in perspective though, Renault have disappeared from sight so there's nobody really there to challenge. It's Ferrari vs McLaren, BMW running ...

2007 FORMULA 1 Malaysian Grand PrixKuala Lumpur 08 April Race Results ALONSOMcLaren1h32m14.930s HAMILTONMcLaren+17.557ss RAIKKONENFerrari+18.339s Fastest Lap Hamilton1m36.7011slap 41 Lap Distance 3.344miles/5.3500km Lap Record uan Pablo Montoya 1m34.223s Race Distance 187.264miles/299.6220km Number of Laps 56 Not the greatest race to watch, but the important thing here is that even though Hamilton was a distant second to Alonso, he was second. In his second ever F1 race. And he'd never been to the track before. AND he set fastest lap of the race! Okay, it was on fresh softs, on their golden lap. He showed tremendous race craft, passing, defending and then pushing Massa (a mediocre racer in a great car) into an early error that ruined his race. Raikkonen was hobbled with a suspect engine, but still brought the damn thing home. Massa looked crap as usual. I know it's only the second race of the season, but Ferrari's constructor champ hopes look to be unravelling very fast. Raikkonen may challenge Alonso for the driver's title, but unless Massa can pull his head out and strat bringing the car home on the podium, McLaren's going to walk them. Next weekend is Bahrain, not a lot of time for the teams to make dev changes to the cars.

This will be the third time I've encoded my cd collection. First time, 192kbps vbr mp3 seemed good enough. Then, next time around I went 256 vbr. And then I got the ipod interface for my car and noticed a lot of weird bass response.

Liked it a lot, but still can't help being a bit disappointed. I'll still buy it on dvd and end up watching it for years to come. But I also have a copy of the Frank Miller graphic novel and there were a few changes that were a little sour. I'm going to re-read it this week to be certain, but I don't think it had so much 'free men', 'we fight for freedom', 'we sacrifice so that everyone's free' rhetoric. The movie script sure likes to hammer that one home. Almost feels like a WW2 propaganda movie it's so overwhelming. Spartan society was only free in the classic greek/roman sense; there was an entire class of slaves. It's a see it in the theater, full price, movie. It's done so well, I'm already cringing at the cheap knock-offs to come.

2007 FORMULA 1 Australian Grand PrixMelbourne 08 July Race Results RAIKKONENFerrari1h25m28.770s ALONSOMcLaren+7.2s HAMILTONMcLaren+18.5s Fastest Lap Räikkönen1m25.235slap 41 Lap Distance 3.295miles/5.2720km Lap Record Michael Schumacher 1m24.125s Race Distance 191.110miles/305.7760km Number of Laps 58 We'll never know for sure if Kimi was sand bagging Massa or not since Massa's gearbox blew in qualifying. But during the race he lapped him, so it's either Massa had big problems with traffic, or Kimi is faster. The big star of the race though was Hamilton. I think I've got a new hero to root for. He led Alonso for two stints and only got passed by pit strategy. Great start by a rookie that's never seen the track before. Hope to hell he doesn't pull a Niko. First race of the season always sees some strange teams on the podium, but I think this is how the rest of the season's going to shape up. Ferrari and McLaren fighting for the championship with Renault being relegated to 'best of the rest' status. Renault and BMW will be fighting for the scraps, possibly Toyota and maybe Honda ... if they get their act together. Super Aguri outraced the factory Honda team. How sad is that? Doesn't look like the Bridgestone spec tire is producing ...

Had the new phone for awhile now so I thought I better list out the good, the bad and the links to resources. Good: get my work email great reception great call quality browse the web with 3G big, bright screen lightweight fits in my pocket lets me demo work software Bad: battery life is awful on 3G doesn't transfer my contacts to my car when it pairs up when paired with my car the volume acts funny, sometimes it's soft other times it's blaring little bit complex for a "phone" mobile IE

Just practice, not the actual race; that's not until Saturday night PST. But it'll be the first time the cars have all been on track together so that make it official enough for me. Been looking forward to this for a long time now but with more than a little trepidation: no Ferrari-Schumacher. I make fun of Kimi's monotone podium interviews, and now I'm faced with the looming possibility that I'm going to have to listen to a great deal of them this year. Maybe being at Ferrari will energize him some? Going to be a very weird transition year. Hopefully it'll end up being a lot of fun to watch. Hopefully with Michael gone, there'll be a lot more racing as everybody tries to fill the vacuum. Hopefully it'll be a year to remember. Or maybe it'll put into perspective just how great Michael was for the sport and it'll just turn into a sponsor procession? Like I said, very weird year.

So there I was, President's Day all to myself (yeah, it's a little late, so what?); Logan was at daycare, Heather was at work, and all I had to do was get a couple of coats of paint on some doors. What better day to see a movie? What better movie to see then a cool looking shoot 'em up. Horribly wrong. Smokin' Aces sucks. No Woo/Rodriguez/Tarantino gun fights here. Just boring slag. Plot tries to be twisty and just ends up convoluted and boring. Two clues that you're about to see a bad movie: 1) It's only been out 3wks and it's already in theater 12. 2) Matinee on a holiday and it's only you and one other dude in the theater.

Finally got most everything done, so I'm going live on the home server today. Still a few things left to do: format ul's within the body of a post format blockquotes format comments format link colors in the body of posts search results

So these past few weeks I've been working on converting my blogger site over to wordpress, and updating the template just a bit in the process. Unfortunately, like most of my projects, it all started with an unveiling followed by a few justifications.