Soccer: Acme (5) vs. Mac Daddy's (4), Battle Wounds

2005-02-11 00:00:00 -0500

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Wow! We won again. It was a very close game and I didn't think we were going to pull it off at first. I scored the first goal and that seemed to grease the wheels for the rest of the team. I failed to do anything else significant the rest of the game except suck wind. Fortunately, we have a couple of guys that are in shape. They kept the game going.

Chris had some good saves and Mark really put the pressure both on defense and offense. He scored at least 2 goals, maybe 3? CJ, joined the team and had an assist for Mark's first goal. We managed to get the lead late in the second half. We fell back to a heavy defensive position and ran the clock out.

Mac Daddy's had their own terminator on the field. A girl with an exposed knee brace was inflicting pain on people left and right. If we aren't supposed to wear jewelry I suspect a large, and apparently sharp, leg apparatus should not be allowed on the field exposed. If she had put a knee pad on it and wore pants, she probably would have been OK. The first time I encountered her knee brace, I thought, "Wow, she's built like a rock!" Eventually I looked down at my knee and saw that it was bleeding. See the picture to the left. Once I get the blood cleaned off, I'm sure it won't look so nasty. I suspect I'll have a long line of a bruise. The ref. should have taken care of it but, even when I brought to his attention, he did nothing.

I can't complain too much, in my own oxygen deprived state, I kicked a couple of people in the ankles. aaKarma.

Top Ten AppleScript Tips

2005-02-09 00:00:00 -0500

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Top Ten AppleScript Tips

My iLife 2005

2005-02-09 00:00:00 -0500

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My copy of iLife 2005 came yesterday. I quickly installed it to see all the wondrous improvements since the original version of iPhoto/iMovie that came with my power book in 2002. The motivating factor behind spending the $79.00 for iLife '05 was the updated iPhoto and iDVD. iLife also comes with GarageBand and iMovie.

It took over an hour for iLife to import my iPhoto library. I have 1,756 photos in my library. However, once the import was complete, I found the new iPhoto to be a lot faster. I haven't yet played with iPhoto's advanced features, but will take a closer look the next time I import pictures from my digital camera.

iPhoto is only the first stop in my photo archive workflow. Everything lives in my web-based photo-album, powered by Gallery. I use iPhoto to get pictures from my digital devices and touch them up before importing into Gallery. I use the iPhotoToGallery export plugin to upload the pictures into Gallery. (I wish there were some way to sync. gallery with iPhoto.) I like iPhoto's new keyword feature, but I'm dissappointed it still only supports one library of photos and does not support sub-albums.

iDVD did not install by default because I don't have a super drive. I have a Lacie DVD writer which Roxio Toast identifies as a "Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D." I believe this is the same model as the super drive. Even if it isn't, iDVD now supports writing a DVD image which I can then burn using Toast. The CaptyDVD software that came with the Lacie drive is pretty basic. It will still take nearly 24 hours to encode a DVD using my little 800 MHz powerbook!

I still have 60+ Gig of digital video from our wedding TWO years ago that needs to be compiled and burned to DVD. When I get motivated to actually do this, iLife will help.

LiveJournal iPhoto Exporter

2005-02-08 00:00:00 -0500

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LiveJournal iPhoto Exporter

A plugin for iPhoto that uploads images to the LiveJournal Scrapbook (Fotobilder) photo hosting service.

HOWTO Process Images With AppleScript and jhead

2005-02-08 00:00:00 -0500

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HOWTO Process Images With AppleScript and jhead