My doot blag

It has begun.  I haven’t watched it yet, and BBC America probably won’t be playing them until at least september[citation needed], but here is the advert for the series.

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Last week Andrea, Traci, and Barb came to drop off Sharla’s new car and hang around for a bit. I lent Andrea some how I met your mother dvds to give her and traci something to watch when bored, and during our bored time Andrea and I watched the Top Gear Vietnam, Botswana and Lorry challenges. This lead to me thinking, what would the best “must see” top gear episodes be to recommend newcomers watch.

First and most obvious are the Vietnam, and Botswana challenges.

After that what comes to mind are the “Best Road in the World” vacation, and the second “Turn cars into boats” challenge.

Which other memorable episodes am I missing?

(I am by no means saying that what I’ve listed are the only good top gear episodes).

For those who have no idea what Top Gear is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_KIqdS1SO0
http://www.topgear.com/

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Now they may not have pictures to confirm a bear exists, but they do have cardboard cutouts that look AMAZINGLY like bears. Please make sure you don’t shoot a human carrying one of these cutouts for fox news. The cutout may look like a bear but it is in fact a person like you and me behind it.

Also, if the squirrel head has a human body, that isn’t a squirrel and should not be hunted/fired upon.

OMG BEARS!!!!

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So in the last post I mentioned that I just had done a quick export from Picasa.  I feel I should explain that I did actually intend to use Adobe’s Lightroom software for photo touchups and such, but I soon discovered that my laptop is far from capable of running the software.  This puts me in a predicament as I did not really plan on upgrading this year.  The only upgradable part of the laptop would be RAM for $50.

If not upgrading RAM the options are:
A) Buy Motherboard/RAM for PC-A.  Build/Buy Desk
B) Buy Motherboard/Processor/RAM/VideoCard to create PC-B.  Build/Buy Desk

PC-A used to be a media pc in our living room but when my old desktop decided it no longer felt like working, it became my desktop.  Then when I no longer had a home office, it became a file/music/video server in ze basement.

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I’m actually pretty impressed at how streamlined you can go from RAW to online album of jpegs with picasa. This is just a chunk of the pictures from the wedding/honeymoon. We haven’t even met with the photographer again since we’ve gotten back, everything pre-honeymoon in the album was taken by Jay.

Wedding

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Day 1 in captivity.

I’m alive and well. Trying to get out a quick message to those who may be worried while I have the opportunity.

It is different in captivity, in contrast to what one may expect, it is much more calm and friendly compared to the few days prior to capture. Things are oddly cordial and affectionate, this may be a clever ruse…

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So to at least make an effort at testing the wordpress upgrade to make sure no one’s blog theme/widgets ended up completely broken I made a beta site. Since wordpress stores the URL of its blogs in the database this was initially problematic. sed and mysqldump made it a quite easy transition though.

Dump your database:
mysqldump wordpress -p | mydatabase
sed ’s/blogs\.dootdoot\.com/new\.domain\.here/g’ mydatabase > mynewdatabase

Then import back into mysql, change your wp-config.php domain and things should be cricket. This probably could be filed under “stupid simple” as far as location changing goes.  Although I should add that if you were trying to move to a www.blog.com type domain, wordpress ignores the www

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Yeah, its late and I’m going to sleep so instead of typing out a story I put a few pictures up on picasa and you can guess the story.  My ambition is to edit this into something all linky and picture-y, but my ambition was also to become an astronaut.

http://picasaweb.google.com/seth.larson/20090516#

Enjoy

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Just saving a link for myself and putting another way to find it via google for something I found useful this weekend.  Canon makes a driver so that you can easily add thumbnail support for their file format in windows xp and windows vista.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=183&modelid=15206#DownloadDetailAct

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Here is a fairly good read on something that most business executives and especially consultants seem to have forgotten about.  Actually providing a good service.  So much money is wasted on meaningless trips for executives and executive bonuses and so little on making sure the people talking to the customer know whats up.

I’ve ordered from bhphotovideo.com in the past, now I definitely want to check out their NYC store next time I go anywhere near that far east.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090501/why-circuit-city-failed-and-why-bh-thrives.html

Sidenote: thats the only place I’ve found online that consistently beats Amazon and Adorama.

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