Dog Walking & Sitting in Boulder – It’s a Dog’s Life

I’m helping my good friend Peggy Lloyd drum up some more business via the interwebs. Peggy, the undisputed dog walking queen of Boulder, has had her dog walking business, “It’s a Dog’s Life” for the past 14 years. Here’s her pitch: Hi, I’ve been in the dog walking business for the past 14 years and […]

The good old days, remember dial-up internet access?

Trying to get a friend’s old laptop online – the beast is running windows 98 with no wifi or ethernet cable. I toyed with the ideal of throwing in an old PCMCIA wifi card but a Windows 98 machine permanently connected to the intewebs is a security nightmare waiting to happen.

YouTube HD – 720p at last!

Here is a YouTube HD video example. Shot with Canon HV30 in 24p. Dog in snow! (Note to get footage to embed in HD add this suffix to your URLs &fmt=22) – Also note that you’ll need a pretty powerful, newish computer to view the video without it stuttering and may older computers will not […]

How to report an an abusive user on YouTube

I just received a nasty comment on one of my videos on YouTube and boy and I mad. Well now it’s time for sweet sweet justice. I don’t mind constructive criticism or someone using bad language but when it’s hate speech, harassment or a privacy violation I think we have a right to report the person in question and get them booted.