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It’s Gonna Be a Girl! – You Heard It Here First

So as the title implies, my wife just gave me the news that I’m going to be a daddy, again!

We’ve been trying for almost a year now, since Haden turned 2. There has been a lot going on over the past year, which brought on a lot of stress and this is most likely why it took us so long to conceive for the second time. Crystal had been feeling funny all day today, not to mention today she would have been 3 full days late. So we decided to stop this evening and pickup a test just to be sure and it was exactly what we were hoping for.

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Busy Day – Things never seem to go as planned!

You Who Never Arrived
Creative Commons License photo credit: lepiaf.geo

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Weekly Coverage – Studio Management Reviews – Password Security, Management and Protection – VMWare Fusion Beta Notes and Thoughts

This week I’m going to cover four different applications; Streamtime, Studiometry, 1Password and KeePassX and a few different topics on password security, management and protection. The two studio management applications have gone through a number of tests with us in our studio. I’ll be sharing our results with both applications this week.

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Donations for an iPhone…

Some of you may have noticed the new page, look up, that I’ve added. Well as you may have guessed, I’m trying to raise enough money to buy a used iPhone on eBay. Why? Well there are a number of reasons for this, the main reason is well, I want one!

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Missing WYSIWYG Editor in WordPress

Recently I went to write an entry for my blog and was a little peeved when I realized that my WYSIWYG Editor was missing in WordPress. I didn’t think anything of it and figured it might have something to do with Flock as I had been having problems with it recently. So I decided to sleep on it and wait till tomorrow to resolve the issue.

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Streamtime Demo Experience – Outstanding Studio Management Application

So we recently finished our demo with Kate McLeod over at Streamtime. We’ve very impressed with the way the applications runs, functions and the features that it has. We really haven’t had a chance to go through it as much as Kate did with us during the demo. So when comparing Streamtime with Studiometry I thought they were very similar in features and function, but now I see that Streamtime has FAR FAR more features and functions than Studiometry and is definitely a winner over Studiometry in my book.

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VMWare Fusion & Windows XP – Bridged Network Issues on Resume


So here lately I’ve been having problems with one of my Windows XP VM’s. When I resume the VM from a suspend, the network doesn’t seem to want to work. I’ve tinkered, edited and patched all I could but with no avail. After dealing with it for a few weeks I finally have come up with a way to resolve the issue. It’s really simple and I’ve done in multiple times and it seems to work each and every time.

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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update – Network Trouble & High Pings

So I recently decided to update my Leopard install with the most recent update that was released. It is actually an older update, there is one that was released after this one. But I’d like to mention this one for one simple fact.

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Streamtime Application Demo

We have an appointment scheduled with the Streamtime people for Friday at 11AM EST. They will be showing us the application, inside and out. We’re very excited about this, as we’ll have someone that knows what their doing show us the application and all the features that are contained within it. I’ll be reporting here once we’ve gone through the demo with them and our thoughts on the application, features, functionality, work flow and overall speed.

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Streamtime Overview – Studio Management

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