NET BROADCAST VIDEO PRODUCTION & DIST

NerdTV is still encoded in MPEG-4 and still uses an applet player, only the applet is now Open Source, not from IBM, and comes with the assistance of mediaframe.org.
NerdTV will be distributed under a Creative Commons license so if you like some of what you see, you can redistribute it or even edit your own non-commercial version.
so the real heavy lifting for NerdTV will be done through a network of distributed servers I've created as a kind of "poor man's Akamai."
What has changed about the show is just the episode length, which is now about an hour up from 20 or so minutes, and the bandwidth required, now 183 kilobits-per-second up from 128. Pilot after pilot showed that 20 minutes simply wasn't enough time while an hour feels about right. And the extra bandwidth was always needed for the 320-by-240 video window, only now it is finally cheap enough that I can afford it.
MPEG-4 encoder - Sorenson Squeeze 4.1
http://www.mediaframe.org/

First company to announce a realtime H.264 encoder -072005
http://www.techjapan.com/Article1073.html

Stream Quicktime over the net
http://mlearning.rave.ac.uk/mlearning/how_to/qtss.htm
http://catalyst.washington.edu/how-to/digitalvideo/qtstreaming.html

Quicktime Tools & Utils
http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/

Loving Life

OK. Its official. Well it has been for some time now. I didnt think it was possible. I had given up. Call me a sucker, softee, or whatever you want but - I am in love. And I pray that she loves and feels the same way about me. I am so happy with her, with life. Life is new again.
My friends will tell you that Im a hopeless romantic. Im a jumper. I fall so quickly. And yet I waited so long to tell her that I love her. I didnt want to scare her away - that is my only excuse for holding out as long as I did. I am so grateful for the time that I have with her.
I think about her so often throughout my day. I want to call her a million times a day, and ask her... well, like I said - I dont want to scare her away.
She's the shit yo.

IN CAR COMPUTER

Potential drawbacks: impact on HD and other components, expense on nice car alarm for protection, risk of stolen investment/cost of replacement
Potential benefits: in car movies, wide range of data storage (music, video, photos, etc), GPS mapping?, internet?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/idash
http://idash.sourceforge.net/
http://tunertricks.com/blog/index.php?p=40
http://www.capsgetpeeled.com/blog/archives/000462.html

BROWSER BASED SERVICE FOR COLLABORATIVE TEAMS

Nice list of many:
http://www.thinkofit.com/webconf/workspaces.htm#groupware
http://www.vrtprj.com/products/
FREE - Server based app - It reads a text file, hyperlinks it and converts it to HTML on the fly.
http://twiki.org/
MeshCMS simply helps you to edit pages, manage files and create some common components like menus, breadcrumbs, mail forms, image galleries and so on. There is no database, no content approval and no versioning. meshcms is 100% design flexible and is easy to retrofit old sites with it. It's a small set of simple but effective features. and it's intuitive, which IMO 95% of the cms system are NOT -billy gorman
http://www.cromoteca.com/meshcms/
CMS - free php/mysql based -
http://opensourcecms.com/
Powerful but WIN Only - $70-$230
http://www.groove.net/home/index.cfm
Expensive - $30 per month - per person (WIN & UNIX (MAC))
http://www.popg.net/

XP Intrusion

Tool that will reset any password for any local account on a machine you have physical access to:
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (freeware) for NT, 2000, and XP
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

The Art of Intrusion (book by Kevin Mitnick)
http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/2179

Open source, tried and true (several powerful tools)
http://www.nwfusion.com/best/2005/022805opensource.html

SPYWARE/ADWARE REMOVAL - XP

Use firefox or opera instead of the IE browser.

Run these apps in this order:
-registry first aid
-HijackThis 1.99.1
-spybot s&d
-adaware
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AIRFARES

Whats hot right now are package deals, they can be cheaper than the price of the flight alone from Orbitz.com.
http://www.site59.com/
AIRFARES
http://atlantaairfares.blogspot.com/
http://www.mobissimo.com/search_airfare.php
http://www.11thhourvacations.com/window_shop.php3?token=11n_030805_01
http://clarkhoward.com
http://www.sidestep.com/air/
http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/
http://www.expedia.com/Default.asp?CCheck=1&
http://www.hotwire.com/
http://www.onetravel.com/
http://www.orbitz.com/
http://www.travelocity.com/
http://www.priceline.com/
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch
http://www.1800flyeurope.com/
AIRLINES
http://www.airtran.com/specials/sale/ATL179.jsp
http://www.frontierairlines.com/
http://www.americawest.com/
http://www.southwest.com/

Ionizing Air Cleaner - may be more harmful

Thinking of getting an ionizing air cleaner? Several can expose users to potentially harmful ozone levels...

CONSUMER REPORTS INVESTIGATES IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: FIVE MODELS ARE NOT RECOMMENDED; SOME CAN CREATE SIGNIFICANT LEVELS OF POTENTIALLY HARMFUL INDOOR OZONE
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=581595&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=156209
Ionizing Air Cleaners Can Cause Problems
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/cu_ozone.html
Danger: Ionizing air purifiers impure
http://www.aircleaners.com/sharperimage2.phtml

Top Performing Air Purifier - rated by Consumer Reports
Friedrich C-90A - $490 - free shipping
http://www.sylvane.com/friedrich-c90-a.html?source=goog&keyword=friedrich%20electrostatic%20precipitator