I hacked my GPS receiver over the weekend. and feel pretty good about the accomplishment if I do say so myself. while it was perfectly usable (although it just recently started nagging me to update its maps), when it was time to make turns it would say something like “in 800 feet, turn right” then right before the turn, “turn right“. Never had a problem with that really, until I saw the entries last year about the text to speech hack for my unit. the problem was I had upgraded my firmware right before I found out about the hack and the hack required the previous version.
this weekend I was sitting there and thought “why don’t you just get the older firmware?” and was kicking myself for not thinking of that sooner.
I was able to find the firmware, backed up my unit, and followed all of the directions. text to speech is too cool for school as it enables me to not have to look at the unit for the street name when it just tells it to me. of course I know this is standard on probably all of the units now but it felt great to indulge my not-so-inner geek.
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a little more than 3 months to go… got the tux rented. the Calvin Klein cut is hot.
I also finally picked out my ring. This time around I went with Tungsten. I was feeling that or Titanium, the next strongest metal to Tungsten, but a whole lot lighter in weight by comparison. We looked at about 10 different places and I swear I saw the same 15 men’s rings everywhere. and they’re dirt cheap. I made the comment during the purchase that I could theoretically buy 5 different rings and switch them out on different days because they were so inexpensive vs the cost of women’s engagement rings and bands.
didn’t go over too well.
we’re still trying to figure out about the photographer deal. Ironic since we both are. I’m comfortable with the school of it takes a village to shoot our wedding. there’ll be enough flickr contacts and I’ll be shooting my own shots in between and I’m sure she will be too.
More family coming. oy vey!
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hey, what’s up. long time, eh? I’m working on my wedding guest list. trying to keep this thing simple and small. i hate those elimination reality shows where every week someone gets cut. This is like that but worse for me. We went with a number that wasn’t going to break us too much.
we came up with a number before any names where though of. and then once you start putting down names, reality sets in. I had a month of stomach pains because I wanted to invite my coworkers and that essentially took up my half of the list. then my best friend, a consistent source of good advice, shared with me in so many words,
Wedding receptions are essentially an opportunity we provide to feed the people who are going to talk in minutia about every aspect of the ceremony, the decorations, the music, and whatnot.
and I stopped agonizing over it. I came up with my half of the list. decided to have people who were close everyday friends and dear old friends who I wanted to share this moment with who’d root for the home team. and then…my grandparents called and said they and my mother were coming. another edit to the list but one that’s very necessary.
if you’re reading this and your not on the list…I still got love for ya
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TV shows added, firmware upgraded, autoplaylists included now. my long awaited product review will also include this. am i greedy or shouldn’t zune pass subscribers have unlimited access to all content?
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the zune social finally makes sense to me. I don’t know if it was always like this but with Kid Hops showing up on my friends list, I can listen/download his top tracks (since I have a Zune pass) and can friendsurf and do the same on their pages
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the software team went and fixed a bunch of gripes people had about the software. I’ve noticed the inclusion of more robust tag support and editing, marketplace album info (and artwork) lookup, and dynamic playlists. this is my favorite new feature.
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