Hanging out at the Giordana Velodrome in Rock Hill
Published March 17, 2012 | 
This place is cool as hell! Watching the cycling racing is damn near hypnotic. Maybe one day I’ll ride this bowl!
Working through Daylight Savings … again
Published March 11, 2012 | This is just getting weird. I had to work last time we changed the clocks and here I am again. Wow, it’s damn dark out there, especially considering it’s actually 5am. Well at least it will be light when we get done with work.
I’m still amazed at how many issues still exist with the time shift. Windows has issues, calendar items break, reminders don’t trigger. But the same thing happens on the iPhone. Previously set reminders don’t go off and calendar items are in the wrong place. See technology isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.
But I did see a deer on the way to work. That’s always neat.
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV
Published March 9, 2012 | I came across this Firefox plugin and thought I would share. We all find cool videos on YouTube we want to keep and this extension makes it dead simple to download them and save them as either FLV or MP4. In fact, that’s the name of the plugin – Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV
Honestly, it couldn’t be any simpler to use. Install the plugin, go to YouTube and you get a new “Download” button:
"Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV" is an extension that adds a button on the YouTube video pages, so you can download videos as MP4 or FLV. The download button is displayed below the video player and it looks like any other YouTube button.
How to use it? After installing the extension, go to YouTube.com and choose a video. You’ll notice a new "download" button below the player. Click the button and you can select one of the formats that are available.
Very cool!
16GB for less than $100
Published February 29, 2012 | We got some new memory for the laptops in the office, which lead me to ponder the idea of upgrading my machine at home. It’s already got 8GB of Ram, but as the wise man said, you can never have enough. On a whim, (that is the catch phrase that usually costs me the most money), I checked out the motherboard and it can indeed take 16GB of Ram. Well hell son, let’s check this out!
A quick check on Amazon shows 8GB of Ram in a 2x4GB config to be $47. So I bought two! They’ll be here Friday!
Corsair XMS3 8 GB (2 x 4GB) 1333 MHz PC3-10666 240-Pin DDR3 Memory Kit CMX8GX3M2A1333C9
Getting Ready for the 25 Billionth iTunes Download
Published February 29, 2012 | Sure, it may be as unlikely as playing the lottery, but you have to try right? And, unlike the lottery, I actually get something out of this deal. I’m picking the apps I’m going to buy as close to the 25 billion mark as I can. I’m going to throw caution to the wind and spend a staggering $5 in the hopes of winning $10,000. The odds are with me right? What could possibly go wrong?
Wow, 25 billion downloads. Just think, it was January 2011 when Apple only had 10 billion. They’re racking up quick!
So, if by some stretch of the imagination I don’t get the $10k prize, what’s the first thing you’ll do with it?
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