Daniel's blog

The Automator workflow I used in Tiger no longer works in Leopard.

This is a video about John McCain. Watch the video. Make up your own mind.

I got an error when I run any of the Adobe Design Premium CS3 products saying "licensing for this product has stopped working" and then it closes.

I have been waiting to buy a house in Southern California for 7 years. Every year I save money for a down payment and every year prices go sky high.

This is a video I took in Japan in September 2006.

The PUC commissioners recently gave their duty of approving fee increases to the companies they are suppose to oversee. Now telecommunications companies can raise their fees anytime they want.

I have Cox Communication for telephone service, which is the only option for our area.
Cox, of course, did not wait a minute and took immediate advantage and raised their non-publish number rate from .28 to 1.25. There is no cost related to not having a number not published; maybe a savings for not having to print the number in a directory.

I made Tres Leche for the first time. It turned out great. I used the Alton Brown recipe with a few modifications.

I think I like this better than biscuits or angel food cake with strawberries.

I am driving down a road in Vista that has a speed limit of 35 mph. I see a red convertible car pull out from a business going the same direction I am heading. The car stops for several seconds then starts moving slowly. When I catch up to the car, it is going 20 mph and is not speeding up. I see the car is a Mercedes-Benz. After about 30 seconds of this person trying to light a cigarette and not driving the speed limit, I honk.

The person then slows to 10 mph and taps his brakes several times and starts gesturing. I point for him to pull over so I can pass and he does. Great.

I had originally purchased a SONY NEC 7170A DVDRW drive, but an NEC ND-3550A dvd drive that I had for a little over a year died and I decided to return the new NEC drive and got a Pioneer.

The Pioneer DVR-112D is much quieter running, almost silent. The drive tray opening and closing is also super quiet.

They both work with Toast and boot OS X and speed seems comparable.

Hopefully the Pioneer will last longer!

Summer you have your windows open at night to let a cool breeze in. The breeze is nice for a little while, but then a smell like a skunk comes through the windows. I rush to close the windows.

The first time I noticed the smell was in 1999. It happens several times a month now. I don’t remember this smell before 1999. I have lived in several places since 1999 with the same smell coming from outside at night.