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The bailout - why you should say no. @ Features     Sep 21 2008 - 15:01 PST by Greg : In case you've been in a cave for the last year, lots of large corporate banks are on shaky ground after years of making exremely risky loans/investments and reaping huge profits in the process. Now the people who helped create this huge mess tell us if we just give them one trillion dollars (that's $10,000 per US household) they'll make it all go away, oh and they won't be answering to congress or the courts on how they decide to spend it. To read more about why you should be very angry about this bailout and calling your senators to demand they block and vote against the bill see these links.. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/why-you-should-hate-treasury-bailout.html http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-administration-seeks-dictatorial.html continued... read comments (0) | write comment| views: 331

Editing Video from SD Video Cameras @ Features     Sep 14 2008 - 12:51 PST by Greg : A month or so ago I got a Panasonic SDR-SW20 Video camera that records onto high-density SD. It is a handy small camera that's waterproof (and dustproof!), and fits into a pocket. It records in a format that's difficult to use in most editing programs (.MOV) so after shooting a bunch of video of Burning man I had to write my own converter with FFMPEG to get the video into Windows Movie Maker. If you have the same problem get a copy of ruby and ffmpeg for your windows box and use my script to import it. NOTE: I just updated the script with /working/ encoder options. The old options would cause output to stop halfway through the video! http://pastie.org/272288 read comments (0) | write comment| views: 243

Baja Haha 2007 @ Features     Dec 10 2007 - 08:11 PST Snowgoose sailing with spinnaker on the 2007 Baja Haha by Greg : Much like the sailor tails of yore, I found myself shanghied on a sailboat in a foreign land. This is my story. More Photos It all started at the Baja Haha party in San Diego, which takes place the day before the start of the Baja Haha sailing rally to Cabo San Lucas. I had done the Haha twice already, once on my own boat 'Scirocco' in 2001, where I met my girlfriend Cherie and several other great friends like Rennie and Anne. I had done it a second time in 2003 aboard Rennie and Anne's 'Cassiopeia'. Because we all had several friends who were doing the Haha this year the four of us decided to drop into the party and say our goodbyes to those leaving for Mexico. Rennie, a retired United captain, ran into a friend of his, another united captain named Mike. All but one of Mike's crew canceled at the last minute and so he was going to do the Haha very short handed. There was free beer there, and after several of them I decided to volenteer to crew with Mike so he'd have enough crew to have a comfortable trip south. continued... read comments (0) | write comment| views: 615

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