Alba Gu Brath!

The Allens Creek Hillbillies

A well intentioned attempt to run invisible fence across the creek gone bad.

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Real estate websites that put power in hands of consumers.

In recent years  more more websites have made real estate information that had once been proprietary to realtors, lenders and tax assessor's available to the general public.  It has begun a revolution in how people buy and sell their homes.  The first few sites available  provided  basic access to listings. These were little more than glorified advertisements that eventually directed the user to a realtor. More recently websites have aggregated more sophisticated data and have provided tools to help users purchase a home from start to finish. Some of these tools even include algorithms that attempt to calculate an approximate valuation on the property based on tax information and recent sales in the adjoining neighborhood.

Here's a list of some of the best real estate websites available today:

Trulia

Redfin

Roost

Zillow

Terabitz

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Robert C Napier Televised Triibute

A televised tribute to famed criminal defense attorney Robert C Napier who passed away in 1986 in Rochester, NY.

John Ark Compassion

Last year I was back to politics and ran a judicial campaign in New York.  This is one of three ads run in a series for the re-election of John J Ark to NYS Supreme Court.

Coming Soon....More Videos.....

Soon there shall be more videos appearing on the site.

Several years ago I paid a company to transfer the old Super 8mm and 8mm film stock of our family movies onto digital tape. This company used a process known as direct video transfer. It involves using a machine that looked like a typical 8mm film projector but where you would find the lens was instead a CCD chip. CCD chips are the chips found on many digital video cameras. In effect, the films were being protected directly onto the CCD chip.

I've also spent a lot of time filming new video. I'm in the process of converting all of that out to hard drives.

Check back here soon for more videos.

Deer on Allens Creek

We've got a lot of animals in the backyard and these deer are just a few visitors we had last week.  Just in the past few days I've seen deer, an opossum, muskrat, ducks, geese and a rabbit.

Linux fans rejoice! Ubuntu 8.04 is finally out.

Gizmodo has the new ubuntu release notice. It's out of beta and the Wubi feature seems like a great idea. My biggest ubuntu problems have been with the display settings and my wireless connections. Maybe this is the way to go?

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Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Officially Released, Flapping in the Free Air [Ubuntu]

A month after the beta dropped, Linux distro Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is officially out. Besides running GNOME 2.22 and Firefox 3 Beta 5, a big new feature is Wubi support, which'll let Ubuntu live on the same partition as Windows and makes it easy to uninstall if you want to retreat back into Microsoft's bosom. If you're Li-curious, now's a good time to try. The site's getting hammered so torrent might be your best bet. [Ubuntu, Thanks nutbastard]

[From Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Officially Released, Flapping in the Free Air [Ubuntu]]

A perfect afternoon on the deck

I'm spending a very nice, relaxing afternoon here on my deck overlooking Allens Creek.

E:Strip's how to Tether AT&T Tilt with a Macbook

I've got a MacBook and a 3G Tilt. I've wanted to use the phone as my modem for access to AT&T's high speed 3G network and here's a nifty how-to by E:Strip.

http://estrip.org/articles/paul/43441.html

Tether AT&T Tilt w/ Macbook and Leopard

I spent forever trying to figure out how to bluetooth tether with my ATT tilt o/ kaiser tytn II n my mac book pro with leopard. I wanted to be able to send out an email from the car. I have the wm wifirouterlink which turns yu windows mobile device into a wifi access point but that was too much battery power and I wanted to use bluetooth.

Bluetooth DUN

Bluetooth DUN would not work for some reason. I mean I could take the damn sim out of the windows mobile tilt, stick it in the nokia 7900 an tether with no problem but not with the tilt. The settings I used for that were.

Phone number: *99#

UserName: ISP AT CINGULARGRPS.COM

Pass: CINGULAR1

access point: wap.cingular

CID:4

Unfortunately, even if it did work bluetooth DUN is so freakin slow that it is dialup style unbearable.

Bluetooth Pan

Amazingly, the mac OS X leopard and windows mobile 6 can network with bluetooth DUN which is incredibly fast Then I realized on the mac you could also use bluetooth pan. I never tried that before. It is way easier than bluetooth DUN and basically allows your bluetooth phone to share its network instead of dialing out through bluetooth as with DUN. It is so fast and multiple devices can access it at once. I was able to get 1300kbps dl and 150kpbs up.

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To get the tilt to work with the Tilt and leopard you will need to use two system preference panes on the mac - network and bluetooth and one program on the tilt called internet sharing.

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First, open internet sharing in the programs menu on the Tilt. If it is not there, just search for the internet sharing app on windows mobile on google and it will tell you how to find/enable it. One you got it running on the windows mobile, select bluetooth pan from the top drop down and media net form the bottom one, then hit connect.

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Using the mac add your tilt as a paired bluetooth device. First, in your bluetooth system preference panel by clicking the + button at the bottom right and going though the bluetooth wizard. You will need to pair the devices using the wizard. While you are in there, check the "show bluetooth status in menu bar" checkbox so that you get the easy access bluetooth menu in your menu bar.

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Choose the type any device when filling out the wizard

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Then open you network system preference panel and select the plus in the lower left. A box will pop up, choose bluetooth pan and name it tilt or whatever you want. Then hit create and exit out of your network control panel.

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Last in the bluetooth drop down that you enabled in you status bar at the top of the finder, select the tilt and then click connect to network. You should be all connected at that point.

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Happy tethering.

Bob and Ann Napiers 25th Wedding Anniversary 1972

This is a copy of an 8mm film of the 25th Anniversary of Bob and Ann Napier in Rochester, NY. The note on the film can dated it as October 1972.