It is now your duty and obligation to fulfill those promises and prove that our efforts were not in vain.  I look forward to the next 4 years being brighter than the last 8 - although, there’s only one direction to go from the rock bottom where we’re at!

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I have this video starring Gina Gershon posted in the “Featured Video” block on the site, but am including it here for future viewing.  Gina does a great job as Sarah Palin and her comments are so spot-on I was laughing out loud the entire clip!

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I downloaded a few video podcasts through iTunes today, but when trying to sync them to my iPhone 3G, I was given the error message:

“<podcast name> was not copied to the iPhone “<name of iPhone>” because it cannot be played on this iPhone.”

Thanks to the forum, I was able to get these podcasts synced.  Here are the steps I used that now have the video podcasts syncing and playing on my iPhone.  (note: I’m running Windows XP SP3, iTunes 7.7.1.11 and iPhone 3G v2.0.2)

• Download podcast episode(s) from iTunes
• Right-click on an episode and select “Convert Selection for iPod/iPhone”
• Connect the iPhone and click to select it
• Under “Movies” select the converted podcasts to be synced

The conversion process can take some time.  The podcasts I selected were about 15 minutes each and took almost their run time to convert.

Obviously this can become time consuming and is not what most users expected when trying to sync a podcast to the iPhone.  In an ideal configuration, the iPhone would play the podcasts in the original format and no conversion would be necessary.  Hopefully this will be fixed in a future update.

Here’s a few of the rules for the game:

• If a newscaster uses the words “hunker down,” drink.
• Whenever there’s a new advisory from the National Hurricane Center, drink.
• If the TV shows a traffic jam with thousands of cars heading in the same directions, drink. Drink twice if you see one car heading in the opposite direction.

You get the idea!  Wanna play?  Hurricane Drinking Game

As of 5:30pm, the local Fox news station reports: “At least seven Central Florida school districts have canceled classes for  Tuesday, August 19.   Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole and Sumter counties have suspended classes due to the approaching storm.   Tuesday will be an early release day for all public schools in Marion County, where students will be released two hours early. Parents should make appropriate arrangements.  No other counties in Central Florida have announced closures as of Monday afternoon. ”

We are just watching and waiting to see which way this storm will go.  Computer models have changed dramatically over the last 48 hours and I don’t think the forecasters quite know what to expect.  We have plenty of water and dried foods.  Locals tend to always prepared - whethers it’s hurricane season or not!

Ummm… doesn’t that sound awful intimidating?  Like a bully?

I understand the need to protect the little guy.  And, if another country needs our help and asks for it, I’m in favor of assisting if appropriate.

I just don’t think Bush is in any position to be telling another country’s leaders not to intimidate another country.  Just sounds a lot like the pot calling the kettle black if you ask me.

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Finally came across HowardForums that offered a workaround.  Albeit this isn’t a perfect solution, but it is better than most of the other suggestion I read.  It doesn’t take much more additional time and DOES solve the problem of getting the events to show in Outlook if they are entered first on the iPhone.

In a nutshell, if you enter the item on the iPhone and it’s a one-time only event, you have to set it to recurring in order for it to transfer to Outlook.  The trick is to set it for only one day.  That will keep the item from repeating on your calendar.

Like I said - not a perfect solution, but at least it’s something to get around the issue for now.