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A friend of mine from Hastings has just set up her own law firm in Los Angeles.  If you need an attorney for employment / business / construction law or litigation, I highly recommend her:

http://gallenberglaw.com/

I have a kid but no camcorder (yet).  That leaves me with my Blackberry when I want to take videos.  Blackberry actually does this very well (considering it's a telephone), but it leaves me with odd .3pg files.  Not sure if anyone else in the world can view them, so I'd like to convert them to a more common format.  But I'm not a video whiz and I want something quick and easy.

The solution: WinFF.  Available for Windows and Linux.

Two big events for Nathan today!  He got his high chair, and he ate solid food:

He loves the high chair.  It's a fancy Fisher Price model; I was raised on Fisher Price and so will he.  (So will he be?  Gah, future passive voice!)  This one has a machine-washable cover, a dishwasher-safe tray, and an extra toy that he can play with while Daddy prepares the next meal.  The toy is the most sophisticated, interactive thing he's had yet, but he took to it like a fish to water:

I've finally finished the photos from the Memorial Day weekend CW reenactment at Roaring Camp in Fresno, CA.  Here you go.

I'm still working on the photos from the Memorial Day CW reenactment at Roaring Camp.  I generally don't like to tip my hand, but you should see this photo.

The rest will be coming soon.

(Edited so you can actually see the photo.)

'High' wallabies blamed for Aussie crop circles

The latest from the Tasmanian Attorney General: "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

This
is even funnier than a GOP leader saying that GOP leaders need to be
held accountable . . . and then running off to Argentina to have an
affair . . . on Father's Day.  You can't make this stuff up.  "Your
money's on the dresser, Chocolate."


But yeah.

I previously complained about how UStream won't work on iPhones.  (Well, it will, but only "featured" or "popular" webcams, so my babycam is out of luck.)  Thus I have embarked on a quest for free webcam software that will allow me to stream to the web and also to Yelena's iPod touch.  Curious?  Read on.

As some of you may already be aware I've set up a webcam for Nathan.  I was using UStream, which seemed great - I was able to run it on Yelena's very old laptop, with my very old webcam, and it ran fine.  Full screen video, sound, the works.  For free.  UStream is also the company that brought you the puppycam, so I figured I was in good han

The Senate just passed a bill allowing the FDA to regulate tobacco.  Why am I so excited about this?  Because it's the right thing to do.

I spent most of the day trying to find a Drupal plugin that would automatically send my blog posts to Facebook.  I finally found one--Ping.fm--but it's clunky and woefully undocumented (at least in terms of Drupal integration).  Then, after midnight, the elegant solution smacked me in the face.

Facebook has a built-in blog importer.

Maybe I should go to sleep now.

J<