I sure wish I had more time when I went to the ocean. I would have traded going to Vegas for going to the beaches around Malibu in a heart beat! I wish the rocks were more in focus, but I was so frantic by the time we reached the ocean and the sun was setting. I couldn’t find my remote and my crappy tripod was giving me fits. I just wasn’t relaxed and I really regret that now.
Crazy Brandon…We recently drove from Vegas to the Grand Canyon. I thought for a moment that I would be driving back alone if he didn’t get himself back away from the edge!
Kinda wish I hadn’t cut off the r in Hummer, but oh well. They had an off road track setup and I got to drive this H2 around it. There were some crazy inclines and other obstacles to get over. After that I drove a new Vette and that was fun too.
I figured someone would get this working soon enough. While browsing news over at Google news I thought I’d see what popped up if I searched for Zune. About the second link down was “Use the Microsoft Zune as a hard drive” I gasped a bit (because this is one of the main issues I have with the Zune) and clicked the link. This took me to PVRWire to a post that had only been up for 4 hours. From that post there was a link to a site called Phaleux with the directions. I will repost the instructions here in case the previous site goes missing. But be sure to visit his site. I’ve tried the hack but so far it does not let me get anything off, nor put anything onto the drive. My computer has acted a bit funny a couple of times while browsing the Zune as well. I’ll update this later as I experiment further.
Update 11/26/06:
After playing a bit I am able to drag and drop music from the Zune to my computer using Windows Explorer. But I am not able to write any new data to the Zune. I get an error message “Not able to write the new folder to this location. Either the device has been unplugged or is not responding.” Even though I can continue to browse the folders on the Zune immediately following this error message. So we are close, but not quite there.
From Phaleux’s site:
“I highly recommend backing up these registry values before modifying anything. If you don’t know how to do that, I don’t recommend that you even attempt this right now =)
More from Las Vegas. The sky there is just crazy. I didn’t do much to the sky in Photoshop and I wasn’t using a polarizer either.
While poking around the Zune.net website I found that Microsoft has released a new desktop theme called Zune. I like it, it’s got an orange start button and makes the taskbar and windows black. Speaking of Zune, I picked one up and have been using it for about a week now and I dig it! I like it better then the iPod, plus I don’t have to use the evil iTunes! :) I’m going to write up a more indepth review later, but for now I really like Microsoft’s first attempt at a MP3/Video player. You can get the desktop theme from the Microsoft Zune site or from my site here.
FYI…you might see some wierdness going on here at my blog because I’m in the process of rolling my other site up into this one. I also write over at MISGuys.com, that site is for computers and tech related stuff, but I’m finding it too much work to maintain two sites plus my photoblog, so I’ll be moving the content from there over here.
This is the Casino/Hotel where the WinConnections conference was held that I attended a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas. Pretty cool place one of my favorite buildings there. Shot with my new 10-20 Sigma lens, which I’m liking alot! I thought about fixing the distortion, but I like it this way. :)
