Dan Israel

I’d been waiting for the right combination of features to make the plunge to a high definition camcorder for personal use.  I’ve been using the 3 CCD Sony HDR-FX1 for professional use, but it is too large to carry around for personal use.

Enter the HDR-SR series.  I won’t cover the specs – cause it’s been done…but this verson is a 120 Gig internal hard drive.  This new camera had everything I was intrested in except, a 20x optical zoom and HDV versus AVCHD.  The 20x just isn’t happening.  I believe due to the sensor size and format, it’s just too expensive to produce this – for now.   Nevertheless, the 12x smaller Carl Zeiss lense is very good.

Waiting for HDV was ignorance on my part.  I’m stunned how good AVCHD format (more…)

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A friend of mine, Eric Townsend (who also happens to be a rock star with the Chiefs Radio Network!) found this intresting post from Adam Schefter, regarding the end of the 2008 NFL season.

“Nobody ever could have, or would have, predicted that one play could cost multiple teams playoff spots and Super-Bowl winning coaches their jobs and change the course of NFL history.   But it did…”  

Sliding doors….

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After performing a clean install of Microsoft Office 2008, Entourage began to give me the following error:

“Unable to establish a secure connection to servername because the correct root certificate is not installed.”

I followed various post regarding installing our Exchange Server’s certificate.   After installing this, I began to receive this error:

“Unable to establish a secure connection to servername because the server name or IP address does not match the name or IP address on the server’s certificate. If you continue, the information you view and send will be encrypted, but will not be secure.”

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We interrupt this message…. Scott Pioli former Vice President of Player Personnel for the New England Patriots becomes General Manager for the Kansas City Chiefs!

IMHO, this is a home run from both Clark Hunt and Denny Thum.  Certainly Pioli is the man with the greatest pedigree.   He is a four time NFL Executive of the Year.  He has three rings.  His assistant, former Chiefs,Thomas Dimtroff was responsible for getting Atlanta back on track this year.   And perhaps most important, is (more…)

This year’s NFL playoffs might have reinforced two football axioms:

1. Defenses win championships.
2. That’s why they play ‘em!

Ironically, it seems to also be saying ”Home-Field Advantage” is not necessarily so.  In fact, this year home-field tag is synonymous with turnovers!  Both number one seeds now at home playing Guitar Hero (more…)

Here is a collection of Kasey photos from the past couple of days.  Getting more and more video as she is awake for longer periods.

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