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More on the Implosion

I have had a lot of people asking how I did that…

What I did was I had 2 cameras. One was in my office in the Charlotte Plaza which is next door to the implosion, and the other at the Bank of America Corporate Center. (You can see where I was here mouse over the image for notes). I set up camera number 1 on my Mac mini in my office on Friday since they would not allow me in my building on the day of the implosion. On Sunday I set up camera number 2 in a conference room on the 46th floor in the BofA Center. Just before the implosion, at the 2 minute warning, I used VNC and logged into the Mini that was attached to Camera 1 and kicked off recording directly to it’s harddrive via iMovie. I then started recording on tape the camera that was with me. As the implosion took place, I started snapping pictures with my camera at the same time.

Afterwards, I edited the video on my Mac Mini and Voila. It was a lot of work, but well worth it.
You can view the video it here (Quicktime Required) and the Photos here.

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iTunes with Podcast support

iTunes 4.9 is available for download now! It supports podcasts out of the box, and I think that this is great for anyone new to the medium.

I installed it and found that it was easy to start building a list of podcasts that I was subscribed to. One notable feature I like is that there are options for what to keep, so that you don’t fill up your harddrive with shows that you are done with or didn’t listen to. Also, it keeps your podcast shows separate from your Library of music. To me that is a awesome. I often loose shows when they are mixed in with the general population, unless the genre is set to “Podcast” or something.

There are a few notable things that I believe could use improving. One is importing of OPML lists, and maybe some smartlist capability, however I think that this is a step in the right direction…

Building Implosion in Charlotte

On Sunday morning about 7:30a on June 26th, the old Charlotte Convention was imploded, and I was there.
I shot video from two different angles, one from my Office which is directly next door to the implosion, and one from the Bank of America Corporate Center.

The visual that I had was amazing, especially so close. The BofA Center was shaking from all the vibration…

I will post some video soon**, however here are some pictures that I took. I will post a few more of these also.

UPDATE: Here is some video and information from WSOC on the implosion

** Here is my Video! (Quicktime required) If you repost or share this video, please give my site a plug. Thanks.

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Fan Films, To boldly go…

In my never ending quest to find something more…something other than the 2 year release cycles of my favorite movie franchises…I have found that Fan films are alive and well on the Internet.

Last night on Technorama (the podcast I co-host), I talked about Fanfilms. I mentioned several really good home made productions. Grayson (Robin is Avenging Batmans death, and is faced with a conspiracy), BatMan : Dead End (A mix of Scifi and Batman) Troops and others…You can find links to all of those at the Technorama Site.

Now something that I forgot to mention…Star Trek fan films. There are some interesting ones coming down the pipe.
Over at New Voyages, they are producing episodes as if it was the forth season in the TOS time era. They have recast Kirk, Spock, and Bones (before you flip out, it is pretty well done) and the set and costumes look great. I just read that Walter Koeing is reprising his role as Checkov in an up coming one…

Now also over at New Voyages they have a links page that links to other Star Trek Fan projects. Some of note I would like to point you in the direction of…
Star Trek: Intrepid
Starship Execter
Also of interest… is Hidden Frontier. I looks like they actually have 6 seasons of episodes already. Set in the TNG era, it looks like they sacrificed building their own sets, and did a lot of green/blue screen. I will have to watch a few. Something else that I thought odd. If I am not mistaken, the theme music is from Galaxy Quest. Now, wasn’t Galaxy Quest sort of a spoof on Star Trek? Ironic.
Anyway, there is plenty here to spend a rainy day looking at.
BTW Got something interesting you like as far as Fan Films go, let me know.

My WordPress Burped.

I noticed that my feeds weren’t working correctly, and my last several posts were not published.
I upgraded to the newset WordPress which seems to fix the problem, however, you may have gotten another blast of my past feeds.

Sorry about that…so now lets move along.

Linux is likely the big loser in Apple’s Shift?

In this article John Dvorak says that Linux has the most to loose from this apple shift aside from the likes of IBM and Microsoft.

He mentions OSS licensing issues, and people being more prone to switch to a machine that can basically run OSx and Windows as being factors that could detract from Linux’s development. But I don’t exactly agree. I mean, you will still have to purchase an Apple machine, just like today to get to OSX. If that will be the case, then why isn’t it happening now?

Now if OSX was stand alone, like Windows is and ran on Intel for everyone….That would be another story. I could see a mass exodus from MS and Linux for that matter.