Google Wonder Wheel

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Posted on 3rd February 2010 by sgrimm in Videos

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Google Wonder Wheel

I just stumbled across this search feature in Google today (yes, I’m sure it’s probably been out there for ages, but I haven’t clicked on the [+] Show options… link too much, I think I’m going to have to explore that option more often.

So next time you do a search, try this out to see your search results in a cool visual way.

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New Site: Small Victory Farm

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Posted on 9th January 2010 by sgrimm in General

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Here’s a nice site just put together by my little neice (OK, she’s not so little anymore). But she decided to help out a friend by putting together a site for their horse riding club, Small Victory Farm. She added links to information about horse breeding, horse training, horse boarding and horse lessons. They are located between Ottawa and Toronto, in a town called Norwood, Ontario.

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Small Victory Farm Website

Small Victory Farm – Horse Riding Club in Ontario

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Format 250GB External Drive for Mac and PC

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Posted on 23rd December 2009 by sgrimm in Videos

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Seagate Portable Hard Drive with Dock

External Drive for Mac and PC?

Here’s a common problem, an external drive enclosure, a PC notebook computer and lots of files you want to transfer to a Mac. The drive enclosure comes pre-formated as NTFS. You go to format the drive as FAT32 because you’ve heard that both MAC and PC can read this format. But there is no option to do this in Windows XP!

You go to the DOS Command Prompt and try FORMAT using the FAT32 option. Success! Or so you think, it spends 30 minutes formatting away without any issues and as it gets to 99% it then reports something along the line that the disk size exceeds FAT32 limit.

You search and search the web for an answer, but they all say FAT32 has a 32GB limit and some suggest using FDISK to partition your drive. Finally, after a searching and trying all sorts of utilities I found something that worked!

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Micro Robot Finds Solution To Maze

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Posted on 21st December 2009 by sgrimm in Videos

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tetra mouse

Tetra Mouse

This robot, the tetra micromouse, is frickin’ fast! Part of a robotic competition, this robotic mouse is tasked with mapping out a maze, calculating the fastest way of getting to the finish and then return to the starting point. After doing this, this little micro robot zips through the maze and gets to the end in under five seconds!

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Bike Tutor is Awesome – Adjust Your Rear Derailler

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Posted on 13th April 2009 by sgrimm in Bicycle Commute

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Rear Derailler

Adjust Your Derailler

Just got my bike back from a shop after they did their yearly maintenance on it. The bike is just a year and a half old and was running fairly decently, just wanted to get the chain and rear cassette cleaned up. I picked up the bike and the rear derailler wasn’t set up right the bike started jumping gears and clicking. I was pissed, but not upset enough to want want to take my bike back to the shop across town.

Wondering if I could just adjust it myself I did a web search and found the Bike Tutor website.

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Tilt Shift Music Video – Rescue Helicopter

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Posted on 10th April 2009 by sgrimm in Videos

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There has been a lot of tilt shift photos and videos popping up lately, this one has to be my favourite videos right now. If you haven’t heard of tiltshift before, it is a technique of using a special lens on a camera to make real life look like miniature models.

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Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Music is:
“CLEMENTINE” (Megan Washington)
Performed by Washington
© 2008 J Albert & Son Pty Limited
Used with permission

Find more on Megan Washington here:
http://myspace.com/meganwashington

You can find more videos here:
http://vimeo.com/channels/keithloutitssydney

Our check out Keith Loutit’s website at http://keithloutit.com.

Helicopter is from the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. They began service in 1973, and have carried out more than 21,000 missions ranging from urgent patient transfers to dangerous search and rescue missions. The Service depends entirely on the generous support of sponsors and the community to stay flying. Donations can be made here: http://lifesaver.org.au/funding_challenge/donate.html

Online Colour Help

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Posted on 9th October 2008 by sgrimm in Videos

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Heres a link (mostly added here for myself) to a top ten list of online colour tools. Something that may be helpful if you are trying to come up with a new colour palette for a website or a room painting project.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/09/color-me-crazy-10-best-online-color-tools/

Vancouver Cycling Routes – Google Maps

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Posted on 26th August 2008 by sgrimm in Videos

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Cycling Map

Vancouver Cycling Map

Here is a great tool to use for your next cycling trip through Vancouver. It takes your start and end points and maps a path through Vancouver.
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Bicycling Knee Pain

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Posted on 23rd July 2008 by sgrimm in Bicycle Commute

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After completing another bike ride to Victoria with the kids in tow in their bike trailer and my bike packed down with camping gear I’ve blown out my knee. I think it is just a case of overusing and not spinning fast enough (putting too much load on my knees). I was able to make the ride to Sooke, 84km, without too much difficulty. It was on my return back to Vancouver that my knee starting to ache on the downstroke with my left leg. It gradually got worse but was manageable. The pain was right under and slightly below my knee cap and at times would shoot up the lateral side of the knee cap. If I stopped for more than one minute then it was unbearable to start again, at points I wasn’t able to put enough pressure on the pedal to clip back in. I felt like I rode most of the way home using only my right leg.
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Rock Climbing Newfoundland

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Posted on 13th July 2008 by sgrimm in General | Videos

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Interested in some different routes, check out the following video on some interesting climbing in Newfoundland Canada. A good introduction to Newfoundland and video of one route called the fifth element.

If you’re looking for a place to stay, check out the Rosedalemanor Bed and Breakfast in Newfoundland.

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