I added a link in the blog roll over to my personal blog. I’ve never done much with my weiland.net domain besides using it for email. I’ve always had my resume on it, and in the 90’s there was a landing page and a front to my portfollio, but I took it down several years ago. I was evaluating MangoBlog and decided to push up my bike riding exploits because everyone should follow along my exploits.

Head over to http://www.weiland.net/ and check out the new blog.

My biggest beef with my 15″ MacBook Pro is the 80 gig hard drive that it came with. With the amount of video, images and source files I routinely use I find myself transferring things to our server as well as to DVD to make room. I currently have 11 gigs available.

Luckily, there seems to be a pretty good solution by MCE Technologies. Their MobileStor Performance Hard Drive Upgrade comes in hard drives with storage of 100, 120, 160 and 250GB. The 250GB drive is currently priced at $279. The one downside of the 250GB drive is that it’s only 5400rpm and not the 7200rpm that some of their smaller drives have. All drives include an external enclosure for the original drive and has both eSATA and USB 2.0 ports.

I’ve ran into a situation in iTunes where I have video blog content or movies that I create not syncing with my iPod. Instead I get this error:

I tracked the problem down to the profile in the MPEG settings for H.264 video. I had to set the Restrict Profile(s) to Baseline. I was specifically using QuickTime Pro, however, this setting should be set in any video editing application. I’m not sure what issues there might be there for Windows users.

R.I.P. The couch made it through many deadlines and meetings, Barbra Morris never gave me a straight up answer of where she got it. We always speculated it was probably something like that old VW commercial but it was Barbra and Carol driving around with the couch in their Mercedes that they found on the side of the road. It functioned a lot better than it looked, I especially remember catching a few minutes of sleep while we were in the middle of the death march of Math Expeditions.