rob’s log

So, I’ve come to the conclusion that I am not a blogger. Several years ago, I created this blog as something to occupy robcolburn.com . But, I rarely find enough desire to update it. I seem much more inclined to update something like facebook or twitter. So, next week some time, probably late next week, I’m destroying this blog, switching hosting providers, and replacing it with something I hope to actually update. I’ve been sketching up the concept for a while, and I think it’s ready.

It’s been a good run Wordpress, but it’s time to go our separate ways.

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So I’ve been feeling this for a while, but it’s been increasing over time. I like video online less and less. It started with the quality gripes I have against YouTube, and aided by my decreasing attention span. The annoyance at unneeded audio, and combined with the problems of listening in an office. The real problem though - I can read information far faster than I can listen to it spoken. A ton of video is just talking heads, which is fine for the evening news when they want to show a quick clip, but terrible for digestion. Just let me read it all in 1 min versus watching it for 20.

– Also, thank you staff of RonPaul.com for always proving transcripts.

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If the extent of your gadget is to display the RSS feed of your site, I’m not going to install it.

Ever.

That is all.

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If I type:
“hey check ( this  ) out”

You traslatate that to html
“hey check out ( this  )

i like it”
Then you translate that to smileys
“hey check ( this &nbsp[smile]

out”

Making me look goofy, 4/5 workdays.

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So, if you happen to be looking for pictures from my Wedding or Cruise to Cabo San Lucas.

Look Here

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So, I haven’t posted in a while… we’ll just skip over the mass of personal events that deserve journaling for today…

Here’s my list of common performance fixes and tweaks I notice most people can do, to get your computer moving good again.

Read the Full Story »

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Right-side
The upcoming CS3 is as enjoyable as sliced-bread. They seemed to have cured themselves of the several of the things I despise about their Shop. (1) The menus behave - multi-screen, large-size, small-size, changes - the tool menus grow, shrink and hide appropriatly and are easier to look-at - nicely stolen Macromedia MX/8 family. (2) The item windows no longer can get stuck off screen or under a toolbar. (3) It loads faster. But, it’s buggier, the tools seem like they take longer switch gears (and, this is longer than CS2), but it doesn’t feel like my computer is dying just to do these changes - but then it is day 1, and it is the beta.

Update: The trial only lasted for 2 days! And, I return to loathing Adobe. I don’t want to purchase CS2 just want the upgrade in 5 months.

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Left-side
“Q14: What is sin? A14: Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.” (Westminster Shorter Catechism). Nicely said. I think of the gray questions I’ve pondered or have been asked. And, the different analogies used to describe an intuitive rule-of-thumb. But “any want of conformity unto” is much clearer than simple transgression.

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After 2 long weeks my laptop is back with a fresh motherboard. My theory: Toshiba didn’t anticipate me using my tablet w/ a 2.0 p4 and nVidia 6600 to play games like oblivion for 3 hours, while blocking the ventilation - because, well it’s on my laptop. Probably hear from them again in a few weeks ago.
So, it my continue-dom of creating sites - for… the fun of it. I made a site to broadcast sermons for my church http://www.churchofchristcast.net/. It was found, with no direct invitation by me - and advertised in the church newsletter - neat-o.
If your using podpress - it’s good to know: PodPress Wiki: Why does my audio sounds like Donald Duck/chipmunks?

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So 2 years ago, no questions asked - PS3 is going to be the best thing since bread slicing video games -

But, I’ve more and more impressed with the underdog, and now they have me wanting to preorder - Zelda

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Ughh… my camera is still out of commission - at this point it seems Kodak may have beaten me - I may just go and get my own.  They won’t fix my camera (for the second time) because I don’t have my receipt, because it was a gift.  On the plus side camera have apparently come down.  I can get something nice in the 4mp range for just around $150 - http://www.steves-digicams.com/best_cameras.html which is half of what I was looking to spend last year.

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