Sayang…

Paradise Cove Luau: Fire Twirling Dude from Ryan Suzuki on Vimeo.

October 2008

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As a result of their less than stellar athleticism and questionable decision making skills, my family doesn’t win legitimate awards too often. As a child I often received blue ribbons and certificates declaring that I had achieved the status of “Participant”..somewhat akin to the certificate awarded to Josh in “Searching for Bobby Fischer.”

Despite this, my mother managed to break free from the chains of mediocrity and was awarded a Community Spirit Award by KLAS in Las Vegas.

The full video is available here (.avi).

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My glasses as of 11:30 AM October 3, 2008:



As soon as I find some white tape my glasses will look like this:



I think the white tape will add 30 IQ points but have a negative effect on my “mojo” with the ladies.
For you D&D nerds: White tape on glasses = +3 to Intelligence and -3 to Charisma.

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My previous Windows Mobile phones had a field in the phone’s settings that let you forward unanswered calls to another number. This let me use my PBX’s voicemail instead of AT&T’s voicemail so I only had to deal with one voicemail system.

The iPhone 3G doesn’t have this field in the phone’s settings (at least I can’t find it). The workaround involves placing a call to a special phone number. If the number of the phone number which you want to forward calls to is 310-555-1212 place a call to this number (include the stars and pounds):

**67*13105551212#

This works for AT&T and more information can be found here and here.

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I tried to send a PSD file from a client’s PC to my Exchange mailbox using my Gmail account and its 20 MB attachment size ability. Shortly after i sent the message and attachment I received a 5.2.3 error message which indicated the attachment was too large. WTF! We can’t have free email services provide larger attachment capability than our Exchange server.

Here’s how I increased the attachment size limit:

Use the Exchange System Manager and right click Message Delivery. Click the default tab and set the size limits.

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I had a user leave me this message:

I have lost my Internet!

When I checked this XP system out, sure enough, Internet Explorer 7 was gone from the Start Menu and the Program Files\Internet Explorer directory.

After poking around it appears that Sunbelt’s Vipre beta had quarantined iexplore.exe.

This occurred after a “Microsoft Patch Tuesday” so I’m guessing Vipre may have detected a change in iexplore.exe and notified the user who decided to quarantine the new file.

Moral of the story: You can lose the Internet and if you do, check your AV/AS quarantine.

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Over the course of several months, Larry Navarro used mediocre snapshots we sent him to create this masterpiece which appears to be either the greatest portrait ever of Mary Toshiko Iwamoto’s family or the Crafts Services crew of the Last Samurai movie.

Full Size 10 MB

Want to pitch in to get Larry a Thank You gift? Click the big obnoxious box below.

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Get the Flash Player to see this player.

I got a Flip Video Ultra 60 Minute to test the video and audio quality and the editing software that is included. I only had one volunteer for the test shots.

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Get the Flash Player to see this player.

I converted a DVD to Flash and more portable formats.

Other Formats
Windows Media
Ipod Video

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I just visited a client who was “conveniently” Grandfathered into a $130/month 384/384 DSL connection. A few hours on the phone with Verizon got this changed to a $80/month 3.0/768 Static IP business connection.

At first, I thought their DSL was broken since I was getting only 300 down.

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