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Giants Opening Day 2008

The only person still optimistic was cotton candy salesman Jesus Ortiz, who was giving away cotton candy to little kids, perhaps to ease the pain. “The team is great,” he said. “Cotton candy is great. It’s going to be a great year. I’m always hopeful in April.”

more pics can be found here

Program your Comcast remote to 30 second skip

1. Choose an unused or unneeded button on the “silver” remote to be the 30-second skip command. I used my “A-lock” button, and in retrospect (with two kids) that’s probably not the best choice, but I wanted it near the other DVR controls. Other choices are the PIP buttons at the bottom, (maybe there’s a hack for those too?) or the “help” button (there’s no help either).
2. Press the “Cable” button at the top of the remote to put it into Cable Box control mode.
3. Press and hold the “Setup” button until the “Cable” button blinks twice.
4. Type in the code 994. The “Cable” button will blink twice.
5. Press (do not hold) the “Setup” button.
6. Type in the code 00173.
7. Press whatever button you want to map the 30-second skip command to.

Snow Day 2007, er, 8

After missing every weekend in winter 2007, we put our collective foot down and headed for the mountains. It was a gorgeous day, and the snow as still plentiful as we headed into the Tahoe National Forest. We found a cute little red farm house, which would have provided an awesome backdrop to take a few pics, except it was open house weekend and the neighbors were a little perturbed by the additional traffic. So we headed up a few more hundred feet in elevation, to an exit with no services and no traffic, providing a perfectly safe location for playing in the snow. After playing in the snow and taking *several* pictures, we had worked up quite an appetite.

We headed down the mountain and into Auburn, a cute little town with wintery charm. We didn’t see the clock tower that is pictured on their website but we did see plenty of charming gold-era themed shops. Thanks again to the iPhone and what ATT service we could get on the mountain we settled on the Auburn Alehouse via yelp.com.

A critical 2008 tax law change

Round Cents to Dollars – Beginning with the 2007 tax forms,  round cents to, the nearest whole dollar. For example,  round $50.50 up to $51 or round $25.49, down to $25. If you do not round,  FTB will disregard the cents. This change helps, process your returns quickly and accurately.

Great New News Aggregate

EveryBlock filters an assortment of local news by location so you can keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over San Francisco.

MacWorld 2008

oh man, I cannot wait.  Macbook Nano, iPhone updates, Starbucks fun, AppleTV upgrade……

rain rain

second and mission

settling in

having settled into my new role with an awesome startup in the city I forsee more updates, as I revive the awesomeness that was once cafeandrew.com.

Converting AVIs in QuickTime for Mac

• http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/ for burning to DVD
• http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/22923 - allows Quicktime to actually read the files

Emma Dancing