Run up through Sugarloaf to Howey-in-the-Hills

Quick run up to Howey-in-the-Hills today.

 

Vlog 10-11-12

Took a quick ride around Windermere/Gotha today to test out some gear. I'm using the GoPro Hero2 with the Chesty Chest Mount Harness and an Olympus MD-52W Noise Cancelling mic inside my helmet.

I think this turned out pretty well. I'm really happy with the quality of the sound.

If you have any comments or if you have anything in Central Florida you want to see, please leave a note on the video or blog.

First review...

Did my first Shady Roads review today. This is a short video where I take a look at the Tour Master Response 2.0 boot. In a nutshell, great boot, very light, seems to provide substantial protection. Recommended.

You can find this boot at MotorcycleGear.com.

Friday Cats

Channel 8

I was talking to Duncan about some of the work the he's been doing, and he mentioned Channel 8. What's Channel 8? It's a dev community site for students. Joe Wilson has the details, along with an explanation of the differences between Microsoft's Channel 8, Channel 9, and Channel 10. Check it out here:

Welcome to Channel 8
Joe Wilson, Director of Academic Evangelism, talks about Channel 8 and what you’ll find here. We’re looking forward to this being a great place for students to connect with Microsoft and each other.

Compiling

U2BT - Unfortunately this no longer works for me. :)

Took a ride down A1A

Bike at the beach
Originally uploaded by brianjo

I've been wanting to ride down A1A since before we moved back to Florida. Today, I got up early and took a ride out there. It was great, but I don't think I've ever been so hot in my life. A1A wasn't the problem though, on my route back I took US 50 into town and the stop and go pretty much killed me. I jumped on I-4 as soon as I was able to and scooted home.

This is a picture of my bike on the beach. It had a really good time.

Here's the track from my GPS:
Distance: 165 miles
Moving time: 4 hrs 10 minutes
Moving average: 39.4

Microsoft wears Prada

I love this video...

Biker Motivational Posters

Somebody sent me a link to these today. Pretty funny.

JUST PLAY

PLAY
Originally uploaded by pinksage

For fun I did a Flickr search for Zune Wallpaper and I found this. I just thought it looked pretty cool.

Second Life Sailing

I've been having a great time sailing in Second Life. I bought a Flying Tako a couple of weeks ago and I've spent a bit of time learning the boat, how to sail in Second Life, and trying to find good places to go. I'm more into open water sailing where I can find it. For maximum geekiness, I shot a screen from some sailing I was doing tonight.



Makes me wonder where the good/boxed PC/Xbox 360 simulation is for this activity. For information about sailing in Second Life, I suggest the Second Life Sailing Federation. There's a FAQ to help you get under way. Getting started in Second Life is free and a sailboat is dirt cheap. Let me know if you try it out.

miniMum - maXimum - My personal Zune Ad

My personal Zune Ad
Originally uploaded by miniMum - maXimum

We got a funny comment from miniMum - maXimum on that photo I took of Duncan holding the Zune book:

"I don't know what kind of a Dummy buy this. Zune is Easy to use as it is..."

Can't argue with the fact that it's easy to use. We think we do show you some cool stuff though, such as how to add great wallpaper, like miniMum - maXimum makes, to your Zune. Check out her Flickr page here.

Zune for Dummies

Zune for Dummies
Originally uploaded by brianjo

This is Duncan, holding up the first copy of Zune for Dummies that we found at a book store. We tracked down this one at BN in Bellevue, WA. Now the only question is why Duncan's name is so much bigger on the book than mine! :)

Home network issues

Update: I was noticing a network slowdown a couple of hours after rebooting the router and so I tried setting the number of ports from 512 to 2048. I've got a lot of computers on this network and the kids are playing games all the time. This seems to have fixed the slowdown problem.

I was having big problems at home with network speed and latency so I tried a few things:

• Set the time server on my router to something reliable (time.apple.com).
• Set the router to use the OpenDNS servers for DNS.
• Set the router to reboot at a certain time each day.

I'm not sure I need to reboot the router, but I'll give it a try and see if that helps keep things running smoothly.

I realize that OpenDNS isn't really going to do much for line speed, but I think it might be having an effect on my initial latency, if I'm understanding how these calls are working. My latency was around 250 ms before the change, and 41 ms afterward. I'll let you know if my BF2MC scores go up as a result.

This is looking pretty good!

JWZ cracks me up..

He totally nails the headline on this one.

Second Life - Visual Studio Island

Did you know there was a Visual Studio Island in Second Life? Well, I didn't. I just visited and took a picture of the sign:



For those in Second Life, this link, should get you there.

Poll: What game machine are you using most often?

I added a poll on my right nav.

Current question: What game machine are you using most often?

I'll leave it up for a few weeks and see how it does. I'm really interested in finding out the answer to this. Leave a comment here if I don't have your machine of choice listed.

Useless, but cool

Get this widget!

WebTrends 2007 Map of the Web 2.0

I had a ZD poster like this on my wall in 1995. (I wish I still had that.) Anyway, these are a ton of fun to look at. They even sell it as a poster.

Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0
We have done it before: The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. We have done it again and better. Upon popular demand here is iA's next Web Trend Map:

Via Valleywag.

How to enable iPhone syncing with Entourage

Andy Ruff dropped me a note today with a link to a new Apple page that describes syncing an iPhone with Entourage via iSync. Note that this works for any iPod that supports iSync also.

How to enable Entourage syncing to iPhone
Microsoft Entourage 2004 is one of the applications on a Mac that you can sync contacts and calendars with iPhone.

Entourage contact and calendar syncing requires the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.5 Update, accessible here. or you can use the Microsoft AutoUpdate application.

The Entourage MVPs have more information here.

Finally, last year I did a video for Sync Services in Entourage that you might find useful. The UI for iTunes is now different, but you'll get the idea:


Video: Sync Services in Entourage