The view from my workspace

They’re building something huge just east of the Toronto Broadcasting Centre. And every single day at work, we get to watch them build it. Once in a while, the cranes lift something huge just a few feet from my desk.

Al Thompkins inadvertendly explains how to buy a Flip Video camera in Canada

From Al’s Morning Meeting (a daily read of mine) comes this video called How Al Tompkins Produces His Video Blogs.

The secret? A Flip Video camera.

The crew at Spark has been wanting one of these little cameras for a while now, but we haven’t got our hands on one yet. You see, as far as I can tell, they don’t ship to Canada. However, Al had a good idea: buy one on eBay. A quick search yields several sellers willing to ship to Canada.

Wait, scratch that. I just checked, and it seems TigerDirect.ca has them in stock.

Marital audit

In preparation for getting married, I checked out the “Getting Married” section of CBC’s HR website. Under the FAQ:

I don’t want to know what an audit involves.

How long was it?

The lineup at Tim Hortons was insanely long this morning. I mean, from the back of the line, I couldn’t even see where I’d order my coffee:

Still, I joined the line and waited.

Pro Tools on Leopard

A little more than a year ago, I picked up an Mbox Mini in hopes of teaching myself Pro Tools at home. I played around with it a for a bit, but I always seemed to fall back on other multitrack editors. Because I didn’t have to get good at it, I didn’t get good at it.

Then I started using Pro Tools at work, and once I knew what I was doing, my Mbox at home seemed much more appealing. Problem was, I’d upgraded my Mac to 10.5, and Pro Tools LE doesn’t play nice with 10.5.

After a long, frustrating period of silence following Leopard’s release, Digidesign has finally come out and apologized for taking so long to offer Leopard support. Dave Lebolt, general manager of Digidesign, predicts a compatible release will be available “within between 1 and 2 months” from April 5, 2008.

Fingers crossed.