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I just watched a TED video by Gever Tulley on “5 dangerous things you should let your kids do”. It is great. He talks about giving kids the freedom to explore in order to make them stronger, smarter and actually safer. Watch the video after the break and more comments from me…
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Apple updated their MacBook and MacBook Pro lines today.  I have the original MBP released 2 years ago.  It is still very nice, but I do want a little more power.  I currently have a 2GHz Core Duo with 2GB of RAM.  My hard drive is only 80GB.  I am constantly removing old podcasts and moving music and video to my NAS.   Unlike most people who sell their old equipment to help pay for their new equipment, I now have to send it down to a family member.  Ever since I switched to the Mac in 2003, I have praised the Mac goodness to my different family members.  Now I have a niece that has a 12″ Powerbook, my sister and brother-in-law have a 17″ iMac (Intel), my sister has a new MacMini (Intel) and even my 9 year old son has a eMac.  This has increased demand for Macs in my family.  Before this, I would sell my 6 month - 1 year old technology on EBay to pay for the new stuff.  Now there is a technology hierarchy in my family.  So in order to get one of these new MacBook Pros, I will have to do it the old fashioned way, save.  Well, its off to the coalmine!
  

I have installed a new theme for all you iPhone and iPod Touch users. Here is what the site looks like on your device:

And for you Nintendo Wii users, there is a special theme for you also. (Sorry no screen shot)

We all know it was announced, however I have proof its currently in production…

I was at Universal Studios this week and this is what I found. My mission was to get into stage 42. The stage number is pretty appropriate too.

This is as close as I got.

You can find more info about the US version of the IT Crowd at :

http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/The_IT_Crowd/

My wife Jennifer has decided to start her own blog. Her new domain will be :

www.uflythisway.com

She is going to share her experiance being a surrogate mother. Should be interesting.

I have just published a new DVD list. Since moving my cataloging over to Delicious Library, my online list has not been updated. One feature missing from Delicious Library is the ability to export to the web. I found a program called DeliciWeb. It will take your Delicious Library information and save it as a web page for you. So far the program has performed flawlessly. The only problem is that I have over 750 dvds listed, and the program has no way of splitting up your collection into multiple pages. So my DVD web page come in a little over 5MB with all the images. I noticed on the developers site that splitting up your collection into multiple pages is a feature coming soon. So check out the new list….

http://dvd.taylorsite.com

And get DeliciWeb at : http://homepage.mac.com/imaxinc/DeliciWeb/ It’s FREE!

Here are some photos from Christmas morning….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7m5dVcBYbo