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The last for today, YouTube playlist for Jim Parshall’s class break #3

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YouTube playlist for Jim Parshall’s class break #2.

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YouTube playlist for Jim Parshall’s class break #1.

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Since it worked and a couple folks requested it, here are the playlists from my YouTube channel which I use for music at break

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This is a test of playlist embedding.

Sweet! It works well! So, these are three of my videos in a playlist. I did modify the stock settings a bit so it would match my video player settings as I did not find any way to do that from the YouTube interface.

I am pretty impressed. I will do a nice playlist later this morning for my favorite singers and post that one up for you too .

Cheers! Jim

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Superb video, really it is one of the best I’ve seen, set to Dagger and Zidane from Final Fantasy and the music of Vanessa Carlton’s Home.

Some of the best lyrics ever combine with awesome visuals to form one of the nicest videos I have seen yet. Check it out, please.

Some people live in a house on the hill
And wish they were some place else
There’s nobody there
When the evening is still
Secrets with no one to tell

Some I have known have a ship where they sleep with sounds of rocks on the coast
They sail over oceans five fathoms deep
But can’t find what they want the most

Even now when I’m alone
I’ve always known with you
I am home

Some live in towns
Cardboard shack on concrete
All bluster and bustling life
They search for the color they can never quite see
Cause it’s all white on white

Even now when I’m alone
I’ve always known with you
I am home

For me it’s a glance and the smile on your face the touch of your hands,
And an honest embrace
For where I lay it’s you I keep,
This changing world I fall asleep
With you all I know is I’m coming home,

Coming home

Tags: Dagger, Final Fantasy, Home, Kidane

One of the great melodies from this wonderful game. If you have never heard this song play it.

It’s short and beautiful–seriously beautiful.

Tags: Final Fantasy 9, Song of Memory

Do not install the newest Adobe Flash Player 10 unless you know you can uninstall it if things go wrong. Apparently there have been issues on top of issues with this release and the biggest of all is it can cause full lock ups on computers possibly causing a reboot.

I ran into this yesterday after installing an update to Safari and then Adobe Flash 10. YouTube would work, but Fancast, Hulu, SciFi and more would quite literally lock the browser up hard.

This was the first “Windows” like issue I have had on Mac OS X in 4 years. Things just always work. An app might crash here and there, but never, never are there “Windows” type problems with random slow downs and misconfigurations or OS lockups. Never. Truth.

So, I did some debugging and noticed it was happening in Firefox 3 also. Ah ha! Not the browser or OS at all, but probably a plugin. OK. We can fix this. Long story short, tested, checked and solved by uninstalling Adobe Flash 10 and reinstalling Adobe Flash 9.

I normally would not say anything to you folks about this, but apparently this is not isolated and is actually quite a big issue. Checking just a few boards and looking at some stuff I can from Apple, shows clearly this is widespread. I even called one of my buds on the IE team and they also are having a ton of reports of lock ups and full system hangs.

To make matters worse, if you don’t have a backup of Adobe Flash 9 you might have problems getting it from Adobe or others. One thing is for sure, make certain you uninstall Flash 10 before you go to Adobe to try and download Flash 9.

To fix this lock up issue follow these instructions and the links provided.

1. Get the uninstaller for Adobe Flash 10 and check out the knowledge base article for detailed instructions by system type. You must use Adobe’s uninstaller or it probably will not work.

2. Download Adobe Flash 9 and install it.

As with all bugs, you may not be affected. After this happened I got curious and spent about 2 hours testing other machines. Hey, I don’t have to do this kind of thing usually and it was the first issue in over 4 years so, what the hay.

I managed to reproduce the effect of hanging or freezing on 4 out of 4 computers and on Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer on all 4 machines. That is 12 reproductions with 100% reproducibility on multiple, different operating systems and hardware.

1. My OS X Leopard MacBook Air
2. My OS X Leopard MacBook Pro
3. My Vista Ultimate MacBook Pro
4. My Windows XP Sony Vaio

 So for the record every machine I have is affected the same. Well, almost the same, Windows usually crashes IE or Firefox with the problem but a couple times it froze so bad I had to reboot. Everything stopped responding. OS X never stopped responding. 

Oh and one more thing, YouTube does not seem to show this behavior on any machine. The only thing I found with YouTube is it was a bit slower on Vista than normal. Fancast and SciFi were 100% repeatable.

Now you see why this is so serious. I have to watch those Galactica webisodes, The Face of the Enemy.

Well, I think I rode that horse about as far as I could. Remember, you may not have a problem. However, if I can reproduce something 100% on 4 different computers running different operating systems on all 3 browser on each I figured it would be best to post some instructions on how to repair the problem.

Tags: Adobe, Apple, Bug, Flash, Freeze, install, Lock, Lockup, Microsoft, Uninstall

This is a video, by me, of The Doctor and Rose Tyler set to I Know You By Heart sung by Eva Cassidy. 

My first video in about 3 years actually and I think it turned out pretty well.

I hope you like it and especially enjoy one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded.

Tags: Doctor Who, I Know You By Heart, Rose, Rose Tyler, The Doctor

A great video of Ryoko and Tenchi set to the A-Teen’s wonderful song, Around the Corner of Your Eye.

I normally don’t post videos twice here, but this one is so right on the mark hitting the relationship of the two lovers right on the money. It is wonderful.

Tags: Ryoko, Tenchi, Tenchi Muyo