Adventure Travel. Recommended by Laura Butler – Adventure Travel and Active Vacations. Explore the World with Mountain Travel Sobek.

Servos Sale. At Servocity -- ending today.

Presentation Judo. Sound advice on presentations from Plover. Noticed on Aaron Swartz’s blog

Redd Stripes. Fun with the White Stripes – Redd Stripes

What Martha Should Do. She doesn’t need the money from the IMClone transaction. She should call a press conference and announce:

- She did not do anything wrong and will cooperate fully with any investigation - But to remove any suspicion that she benefitted from this transaction, she is giving the entire proceeds to charity. Her original principal and any gain. - She will give it to a charity to help workers displaced by all the recent ceo/cfo shenanigans - Because she is as sickened by these shenanigans as anyone and particularly so as a ceo herself.

This would stop the media circus and they would move on to someone more vulnerable.

Ripping Video. I am step one into my attempt to rip all my home movies onto my PC, and then reburn them into a DVD that I can distribute to the family. I installed an ATI All-in-Wonder and used the Windows XP Movie Maker to transfer over the full digital content from my Canon GL1 via the 1394 connection. This worked very painlessly, tho the transfers happened at playback speed and I couldn’t seem to find any way to just bulk copy over the digital content.

Next up is to transfer all my old VHS-C analog content over via the all-in-wonder analog capture interfaces.

And I bought the HP DVD +RW writer (external), so i will then burn it all to a dvd. I’ll keep updating the blog with status.

Great game. I’ve been burning lots of time playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault -- awesome game. The Normandy Beach scenario feels amazing. My son is bugging me to start playing Warcraft III on our lan, but I have to get thru Medal of Honor first.

5 Things You Wouldn’t Know About Me From Reading My Blog

1. I once inhaled an aspirin tablet. 2. Related to the above, I have had multiple bronchoscopies. 3. I worked for the company that built the Saturn V rocket transporters. 4. I was the Polar Bear champ at Lost Trails Camp in 1973, awarded for swimming the longest time in a glacier-fed lake. 5. I am a charter member of the Lower Shawanaga Bay Bums Association.

Glowing Bubbles. I am not sure how I would use this at Halloween but it seems cool – Steel Blue Antari Blacklight Glow Bubble Juice

Simple Fog Chiller. A nice description of how to build a fog chiller – Fog, On The Rocks

Oregon Trip. We’re back. Had a great time in Cannon Beach at the Stephanie Inn. And then in Portland for a couple nights. Also drove around a lot and saw a lot of central Oregon – Bend, Redmond, Sisters. Some beautiful territory there.

All while Liz was paddling her way down the Deschutes river with her Outward Bound course. She had a great time, although she struggled thru food poisoning and a day when it was 107 in the shade. But another great outward bound experience.

BTW Oregon has sucky wireless coverage. Blackberry worked in Portland and in a very narrow band around. I was surprised there was no coverage on I-5. And digital cell phones have very limited coverage on the major highways. In central oregon and on the coast, only analog roaming was reliable.

Sony Mavica. Ready for my next digital camera. I hate screwing around with the film media. I wonder if I would like this better – DCRP Review: Sony Mavica MVC-CD400

Not Me. In case it is not clear, none of these John Ludwigs are me: John with trains; John’s filmography; John with puppets; Academic John; John the power tool artist; Broker John; John the songwriter; German guys with John Ludwig in their name; more Songwriter John Ludwig.

Glowbottles. Fun idea for a laboratory setup at halloween – Glowbottles.com A Funky Glowing Liquid Party

Product Keys. So I have a file now that is one of the most precious files on my computer – a list of all my Windows and Office Product Keys. Because I screw around with my systems a lot, reinstalling Windows and Office is unfortunately something I do on occasion. It is pretty pathetic that I have to keep a file of these keys so that I can successfully reinstall.

This is actually something I wish Passport solved for me. Let me associate an install with my passport and have passport remember the dang keys for me. So that on reinstall i can just provide my passport and everything swims along. This doesn’t require huge magic adoption of passport by the industry. It just requires Microsoft product teams to set this as a goal and work together to solve. Later on you could extend to handle keys and credentials of other parties and websites but that is an option. It would be valuable if Microsoft just solved the Microsoft created problem.