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What a welcome suprise. Dave stopped in today from South Carolina to hoist our Stanley Cup. We certainly miss Dave and the joy he brings to our office.
Not to be out done, our "Other Dave" kissed the Cup.
I'm sure you have seen specialty plates like a Penn State Alumni plate or a Presque Isle Partnership plate.
Did you ever wonder were these plates come from?
There are currently 189 Special Organization plates available and they are available for oganizations that meet the following criteria:
- Be a Non-profit organization;
- Have as one of its primary purposes, services to the community, which results in a contribution to the welfare of others;
- Be based, headquartered, have a chapter or licensed in Pennsylvania;
- Not be offensive in purpose, nature, activity or name, as determined by the Department;
- Guaranteed a minimum of applications (negotiable) before any plate will be produced.
In honor of Game 3 of the Eastern Conf Quarterfinals and in appreciation of The Mario Lemieux Foundation
There are many worthy organizations, and some not so worthy. You can see the whole list here.
Mike found this feature with twitter and thought I'd pass it along.
Taken directly from Twitter support page.
Get updates matching specific words, or topics of interest with the track feature. For example, for updates about the upcoming Coachella concert, send track coachella. To get the latest buzz about Austin, track SXSW . Track as many words as you want. What's the catch? It only works on phone and IM, no API or web tracking...yet!
- track word: starts tracking a word
- untrack word: stops tracking a word
- untrack all: stops tracking all words
- track off: stops tracking all words
- tracks or tracking: returns a list of words you're tracking
I have 2 lines on a CellularOne account and a pick your plan on AT&T. This is not a very cost effective way to have 3 lines so I began to explore my options.
I have been very happy with GSM technology and really enjoy the flexibility of swapping out sim chips. When AT&T bought out CellularOne I was pretty excited to see what they would bring to the table. After a visit to the AT&T store it was clear that customer service was not something they were going to bring to the proverbial table.
I am not stupid when it comes to cell phones and in most cases I know more about what they are talking about than they do. The salesman I was talking to was no exception but he didn't realize it. He ended up digging a pretty big hole. The worst part is that this was during the day and you would think that they would have their best employees working the weekdays. I was also informed that if I resigned my account that I would be losing my 18% employer discount.
I thanked the employee and told him that he Certainly helped me make my decision and gave him back his brochure as I walked out of the store.
We switched to Verizon were Tony took care of us. I have never had such great customer service. (I get a 22% discount)
Problem 1
Remember when I said I accidentally saved the ringtones at 11025HZ? I am now remembering why I encoded at that setting.
The Macromedia Flash player has a problem playing files that are encoded at a rate that is not a multiple of 11.025 kHz. This effect is sometimes called the “chipmunk” effect: the file is played at double speed. To avoid this, encode MP3s at 11.025 kHz 22.050 kHz or 44.100 kHz.
However, I re-encoded these at 22050HZ so I thought the problem would be gone. The audio files sounded good if you are using Firefox.
Solution: I have re-encoded them at 22050HZ and a bit rate of 32. They sound better now and play in the flash player without sounding like chipmunks.
Problem 2
These files are embeded using a player and can not be downloaded.
Solution?:
- Stanley Cup Comes To Pittsburgh 1991
- She wants to sell my monkey!
- He beat him like a rented mule!
- Oh no, Eddie Spaghetti!
- Lord Stanley, Lord Stanley, bring me the brandy!
- Look out Loretta!
- You ain't nothin' but a hound dog!
- Great balls of fire!
- Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!
- Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one too!
- Call Arnold Slick from Turtle Creek!
As promised previously and In honor of Game 2 of the Eastern Conf Quarterfinals I created 12 Ringtones from Game 6 of the 1991 and Game 4 of the 1992 Stanley Cup.
Enjoy them and I hope to add more of them to the Penguins folder.
The Mike Lange Tournament of Quotes continues at Going Five Hole.
To update Twitter via SMS, you'll need to add your phone number to your Twitter account, and verify it.
1. Go to http://twitter.com/devices (you'll need to log in)
2. Add your phone number in the form provided.
3. Follow the instructions provided to verify your phone.
Once your phone is verified, you send updates via sms by sending your 140-character message to Twitter's SMS number (40404)
To update Twitter via Google Talk, you'll need to add your IM Account to your Twitter account, and verify it
1. Go to http://twitter.com/devices (you'll need to log in)
2. Add your IM information in the form provided.
3. Follow the instructions provided to verify your account
Once your IM account is verified, anything you write to twitter will appear on that page.
If you have set up twitter to update your facebook account then you can now update your status by simply texting 40404 or sending a Chat to twitter@twitter.com.
For those of you that are waiting for the Mike Lange ringtones, hang on. I didn't get a chance to redo the ringtones yet. I will get these done and I assure you it will be worth the wait.
This doesn't seem as easy as it should be.
- Add the twitter application to facebook. http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/
- Look to the list of applications to the left of your facebook page. (should see twitter there now)
- Click on the edit link above the list of applications.
- You will see a list of applications.
- Click on Edit Settings for twitter to edit the settings for the aplication.
- Make sure 'Status Updates' checkbox is checked.
- Save Changes
- This will cause the facebook status to be updated whenever you update your twitter status.
You can update twitter by using Instant Messaging, Twitter Website or SMS.
Look for instructions on setting twitter up to work with SMS in the future.
In honor of Game 1 of the Eastern Conf Quarterfinals I created 13 Ringtones from Game 6 of the 1991 and Game 4 of the 1992 Stanley Cup.
I am using Audacity to rip the audio from an mp3 file I extracted from you tube. The mp3 files were about 15 minutes and I delete everything from the files other than the clips I am looking for and then save the "clipped" file that contains 13 clips adding up to about 1 minute. I accidentaly saved the "clipped" master in 11025Hz and they sound really bad. It took about 2 hours.
Look for them in the future, they include:
- He beat Casey like a rented mule!
- Great balls of fire!
- Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one too.
- Call Arnold Slick from Turtle Creek
- Oh, She wants to Sell My Monkey!
- Oh no, Eddy Spaghetti
- Lord Stanley, Lord Stanley, bring me the brandy!
- The Stanley Cup has come to the City of Pittsburgh
