Tuesday – July 14: Slow day, took my walk and tracked it with the GPS-X application on the iPhone. After you create a track, the software lets you upload it to your Facebook or Twitter account, it is very seemless integration and quite kool.

The afternoon was spent playing with my website and converting it to the “Piece of Paper” template from jmjetten@home.nl (henkvreissler). After I was all done, I’m not sure that I like the new look any more than the existing one.

Dinner was chicken tacos, home-made beans and mango-peach salsa from Costco. Excellent, better than last night’s Prime Rib dinner at the Marriott!

We talked with Douglas and he is ready to come over tomorrow, hopefully everything will be smooth.

Monday – July 13: Took the Subaru to service down in Kona to replace the a wiper linkage that was broken during the last service inspection. I waited for about an hour and they were prompt and on time. On the way back, stopped by Home Depot to check out marble refinishing – with no luck. I need to do some more research.

The afternoon was nice and relaxing with dinner at the Hilton Waikoloa for their Monday 50% off specials. The restaurant is good at 50% off, I’m not sure that it is worth full price.

Using the new Handbrake version 0.9.3, you can rip and convert non DVDs. I took the Quicktime mov files created with the Mimo Recorder and fed them to Handbrake for conversion to 640×480 format for playback with Quicktime on PC/Mac or for importing to iTunes. A 42 meg file was reduced to 8 megs, quite tolerable for student downloads. 8 megs is about 1 song at 192 kbit AAC format. The 42 meg file is about my upper limit in detail and length.