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before going to hawaii for our vacation (other posts about that coming soon), i decided to try the itunes movie rental service. obviously, the goal was to find an easy way to keep diego occupied on the flight…so, i rented the simpsons and we watched it on the flight…twice :)

not only was the quality good, but it didn’t kill the battery. my only complaint = only one day to watch the video once you start it.

now, if only the iphone had an ebook solution that worked in offline mode!

in any event, on the way home, hawaiian air had an even better vid solution…a dvd player loaded with a number of movies and tv shows, all for $15…

i rarely get sick, but when i do…i’m usually down for a while. seems like my health is matching our dreary weather this wknd. i was going to write about the web2expo (aka, “web2 for the rest of us”), but i can barely manage to type this note…

btw, iraq in fragments should have won best docmentary this year…simply amazing…

ps - i’ll put up my slides from web2 later this week…

what a boring, but semi-productive weekend…

i spent 5 hours on saturday dealing with applecare and the folks at the genius bar (see my earlier post). at least my data is backed up now. plus, i’m fully “online” and set to work on any available computer….thanks to gmail, gcalendar, greader, meebo, xdrive, gdocs, salesforce, delicious, flickr, feedburner, and my blog…

besides spending half the wknd on my mac, i worked, started our taxes, and mowed the lawn, etc. wow…exciting….

at least i watched a little madness (go hoyas!) and saw casino royale - daniel craig is going to be a great bond…

diego and i saw this earlier today…

just the right type of humor for a little one…now, back to all things rss…

great podcasts (here and here) from the sundance folks (powered by feedburner)…

makes you feel like you’re sitting next to samuel jackson and jennifer aniston :)

nice use of our new headline animator by sony pictures…

↑ get the code

they’ve put it on their official message board as a way to promote their spiderman3 blog…of course, it can also go on myspace or wherever…

it was great to hear gore and others give impassioned speeches about democracy and the importance of documentaries / journalism…i wonder what would have happened in 2000 if he had been allowed (or felt comfortable enough) to talk like this…

also, congrats to carrie and all the winners!

very quick overview of our relaxing thanksgiving wknd…

handling the snakes for “snakes on a plane” - what an odd/cool/dangerous job…

‘But if he were to be killed by a snake, he’d rather be squeezed to death than bitten.

“A constrictor is the way to go,” he says. “You get grabbed and literally you’re unconscious in 15 seconds max, which is a lot faster than any venom will kill you.”‘

brad, thanks for pointing to this video. it’s hilarious…