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Late Night with Conan O’Brien – The Walker Texas Ranger Lever

When NBC bought the (highly coveted?) rights to Walker, Texas Ranger, Conan devised a way to incorporate the western police drama into Late Night. How did he do it? With a giant lever, of course!

The Walker, Texas Ranger lever is a magical thing. You can pull it any time — day or night — and view a 15-second clip of Chuck Norris’s goateed brilliance as he deals with bear traps, fist fights, headbutts, unopened parachutes…well, just watch.

Are these the Worst TV Commercials Ever, or the Funniest.

So your looking for a place to store your Fine China or Antique Furniture, well Toby Jones from Jones Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage is just the guy you need, and he is really cheap.

2008 – The Year in Photos

With the year fast drawing to a close I have once again made use of Animoto.com to edit together some of my favourite family photos of 2008. The music is “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz.

The Office (US) The Best of Jim’s Prank’s on Dwight

The Office has long been Marlain and myself favourite comedy shows, here is collection of some of our favourite moments involving Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and Dwight Shrute (Rainn Wilson).

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Playstation 3 (PS3) Part 3 – How To Upgrade Your PS3’s Hard Drive

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Playstation 3 (PS3)

Part 1 – File Sharing with Windows Media Player 11

Part 2 – Adding External Storage

It doesn’t matter if you have the 20GB, 60GB, or even the new 80GB PlayStation 3 — you can always use more storage space. All that available hard-disk space quickly disappears once you start downloading games, demos, and HD videos. Fortunately, Sony has designed the PS3 to allow console owners to perform their own hard-drive upgrades. You can go out and select your own hard drive instead of being forced to buy an official first-party hard-disk accessory. However, giving console owners that freedom means that aspiring upgraders will need to know how to select the right hard-drive upgrade and the proper installation technique.

Hard-disk manufacturer Seagate supplied us with a 160GB Momentus 5400.3 for our upgrade.

The first step to replacing the hard disk is going to the store or visiting an online retailer to pick up a new hard disk. The PS3 is compatible with just about any 2.5-inch SATA notebook hard disk. Both 5400-RPM and 7200-RPM drives should work fine. The physical size of the hard disk is important because it has to fit the PS3’s 2.5-inch drive tray. As far as storage capacity goes, it doesn’t make sense to go through the trouble of upgrading unless you go big: We’re talking 120GB, 160GB, or even 250GB.

Once you have your upgrade drive, the next step is to back up the data on your current PS3 hard drive to an external storage unit. You can skip this step if you aren’t attached to your music, videos, and game saves, but most of us will probably want to save all that information. The PS3 has a built-in software backup utility that can copy the PS3’s hard-drive contents to an external storage device, such as a USB thumb drive or a memory stick. The removable storage device must use the FAT32 file system in order for the PS3 to recognise it. If you have an external hard drive that’s formatted in NTFS, you can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to reformat the drive, but you’ll need to create partitions on large external hard drives because Windows can only do FAT32 on drives 32GB or smaller.

Save your data using the PS3’s backup utility.

If your storage device isn’t large enough to handle a full system backup, you can selectively copy data over through the various music, photo, and game menus in the XMB. Your PlayStation Network login and system settings will remain safe on the system during the entire process. After you have your data safely backed up, you can move on to the actual hard-drive swap.

You will need a Phillips-head screwdriver to complete this part of the installation process. The PS3 owner’s manual also includes step-by-step details on how to replace the hard drive, in case you need more instructions.

Turn off and unplug the system. Remove the plastic HD side-panel, and remove the blue screw.

Open the metal latch, move the drive tray to the right, and slide out the drive.

Remove the four screws that hold the hard drive to the tray. Use a screwdriver that fits snugly because the screws are extremely tight and easy to strip.

Swap in the new drive, and replace the screws.

Put the drive tray back into the system and slide it into place. Then replace the blue screw and snap the side panel back onto the system.

Turn on the console and let the system format the new drive. Then load up the PS3 backup utility to restore data from your external storage device back onto the PS3 hard drive.

At this point you should have a newly upgraded PS3 and the leftover hard drive. You could try selling the old drive, but small-capacity used drives might not fetch enough money to be worth the hassle of finding a buyer. If you still want to make the drive useful, you can buy an external drive enclosure to make it into a portable storage device.

Noosa Holiday Photos 2008 – Music Video

So once again I have used of my favourite editing tools Animoto to edit our holiday photos. The pictures were taken at the Chinese Garden in Toowoomba, the swimming pool at our resort in Noosaville, and at the Australian Zoo in Beerwah.

The music for the video is Beautiful Reasons by Zach Gill which is available for download here.

Please Note – As this is a high resolution video it may be necessary to press the pause button and allow the video to buffer before playing.

To view the regular photo gallery click here.

Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

With equal parts humor and heart, Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that moved an overflow crowd at the university — and went on to move audiences around the globe.

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

Randy died July 25 of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47. Randy’s family is planning a private burial. A campus memorial service is being planned and details will be announced at a later date.

Rachele & Travis riding scooters at St Kilda – Video

Here is a short video of Rachele & Travis riding there scooters at the St Kilda boardwalk, the video was taken on our Christmas Holiday’s earlier in the year. The kids had a lot of fun and manage not to hit any of the other pedestrians, although they went close.

Scooter from Kevin Perry on Vimeo.

Rachele’s first day at school – Video

Here is a short video taken of Rachele just before she went to school for the first time. Apologies for the poor audio quality.

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