If you're wondering why I haven't written in a while it's because I've had a slew of health problems. Read More...

Well, I finally got my San Fansisco Bicycle Ride Images in place and working with Flash the way they should be or at least as close as I need them to be right now. Getting all of the sizes in Photoshop was a little bit of a chore at first but once I got the hang of it, things went OK. Thanks to Rapid Weaver's way of handling the timing and delay and getting the order correct everything went pretty darn smooth. Read More...

You know how all of your friends and relatives always send you those little pieces of unwanted email that usually end up in the trash can? Well, every once in a while I get a goodie. My sister-in-law just sent me and email with these 2 pictures in it that really hit home. So with out further ado, Read More...

Folks, here's a picture of the best stuff in the world. This is a meal in a pouch and no, it's not C-Rations
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First of all, let me just say that I'm not one to break copyright protection on digital media. But, I have quite a large collection of DVD's that I want to put into iTunes. My favorite collection is the entire series of Star Trek The Next Generation. I have all seven seasons on DVD and some of them are starting to get a little scratched. So I've found that the best way to backup my DVD's was to put them into iTunes.

I have a brand new 3.06 GHz iMac with a 1 TB hard drive but I keep all of my iTunes on an external Seagate 500 GB FreeAgent Firewire drive. So I found this handy DVD video conversion utility called "iMedia Converter" by iSkysoft. This is such a great piece of software I just had to write about it. I can convert to and from so many different video formats. Right now I'm converting one of my DVD's to MPEG-4 Format (.m4v) which is what iTunes uses as it's video format.

For only $49.00 for the software to backup my DVD collection, it is well worth the price.