LOL: The Life of Leo

Moving Day

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:48:19 -0700

I want to thank Ben and Mena, Six Apart, and Vox for a lovely home here for the past year or so. I really like this blogging platform, but I decided I'd prefer to host my blog on Leoville.com, so new posts will now go to

http://leoville.com/blog

I'll keep this Vox blog alive as long as they'll let me because I have numerous videos and images hosted here and I don't want to lose them. Every post here has been moved to the new blog, however, as have all my posts from a variety of old blogs going back to 2001. Some of the older posts make for pretty good reading.

See you there!

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iPhone Day

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:25:42 -0700

End of the Line

I thought I'd just stop by the AT&T store at noon just to see if there was a line. There was, and fearing I wouldn't get a phone in time to review it for Saturday's radio show I got out my folding chair and joined the line as number 13. Six hours later I got my iPhone. This is the last video from my poor old Nokia N95.

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Google Hates Me

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Sat, 12 May 2007 11:32:25 -0700

I'm in the middle of the radio show so I'll make this brief. I can't search on Google. In Firefox, Safari, and directly from the Google site I get the same error message:

Google 403 Screen Cap

Even when I supply the captcha it refuses to perform the search.

Has anyone seen this before? This is bizarre! It's only happening on my Mac. The PC on the same network works fine. Must be something I'm running on the Mac. (Stickam? Wakoopa?)

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Cinco de Mayo

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:30:06 -0700

Henry and El Mariachi

Guadalajara

Fiddlers Three

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Papillons

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:31:00 -0700

Name That Dog

So don't tell Henry and Abby but we were thinking of getting a dog. These are papillons. They can come home in two weeks. What do you think?

The Sweetest One

The one we want to take home is the black-faced one Jennifer picks up in this video. If we do take him home this will probably be the first of many videos.

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A Reviewer From The Future

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:30:48 -0700

SuperPhone

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The First VTR

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:50:17 -0700

I had a little time to kill before my flight to LA today, so I was finally able to stroll through the early audio exhibit in the United concourse at SFO (on the way to gates 76-90). Lots of interesting historic items including this first videotape recorder. When Apmex showed this to television executives in 1956 they gave it a standing ovation.

AMPEX Video Tape Recorder (1956)

The exhibit is Dolby heavy - practically everything is on loan from Dolby Labs, including the Ampex. Ray Dolby was on the team that invented it - but well worth the 20 minute stroll.

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Steadicam

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:24:07 -0700

Glenn shows his steadicam mastery with Ryan and Sean on The Lab...

Steady Man

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Twiting Morgan's Arm

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:16:40 -0700

I ran into Morgan Webb at the airport this evening. I was on my way to Vancouver to tape The Lab. She was just arriving from LA. I haven't seen Morgan in three years, but there's always a bond between ex-TechTVers!

Morgan!

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Hot spot

nobody@vox.com(Leo Laporte) — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:54:23 -0700

I'm getting some really great stills with my new Nokia N93i (on loan from Vox). Can't wait to see what the N95 I've ordered can do.

Municipal Wi-Fi comes to Petaluma

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