So we picked up the iMac from the Apple Store a few days back, it turns out they did end up replacing the logic board on it.

Thank god it was still under apple care from the guy who sold it to us...because the cost otherwise would have been $800 bucks. And let me tell you that is more than what I paid for it for sure. Scary stuff man...I don't recommend the extended warranty on stuff, but these iMac's are almost impossible to service yourself.

So anyway that is all good, now the only thing on my plate is to find somebody else with an iSight camera. I'm really curious about how the video conferencing works on it...it looks like you can even do three way or more. Something I haven't been able to achieve on a windows platform.

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So I discovered something interesting last night...usually when I need to watch a video on our Xbox 360 I have to convert it to *.wmv from *.avi (usually xvid). Aside from taking at least 88 minutes to do that, the audio is always off by the time your 1/2 way through watching it because xvid uses a variable bit rate encoding. So little to my knowledge....microsoft upgraded the xbox 360 to be able to play xvid avi's without any type of conversion. That is super freakin' sweet.

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And the last little bit of geeky news....I wrote a script today that checks a directory for conformation to a naming standard, and for any zero byte sized files...then emails an alert out if any of those conditions are met. Nothing amazing by any standards, except that I did it and nobody else did. I'm pathetically excited about it....now all I want to do is figure out a way to check and see if a file is more than 3 days old than the current date....but I'll leave that for tomorrow.