Weekend Update!

Not in SNL style, but jillako style!

Right now, its hotter than ever this year. The local paper called the weather "hot, sticky, nasty and uncomfortable". I say, it feels just like home (Madras)! Bring on the fans and go crazy with the garden hose :)

Anjali is doing great. She has learnt to use the walker, she is also quite comfortable going to daycare in the day.

We are managing but squeezed for time as full time workers and parents. Anjali's food is made on time but ours is a bit of challenge. The best dinner we had all week was a mish-mash of leftovers from Anjali's food all cooked into one tasty dal curry!

I managed to make chapatis from scratch, hooray!

I found out that 1080p video recorded in 24p mode on the HDC-SD9 video camera can be imported into iMovie w/ Perian 1.1 installed. Yay! Look forward to some good quality videos as soon as we find something interesting to shoot and share!

And I'll end with a clip from a recent SNL Weekend Update. This one is about GTA IV, the highly anticipated video game. I've never been much of a GTA fan, but this clip was funny!



Til' later, adios amigos!

Beware: The Panasonic SD9 Camcorder

In the interest of anyone looking for a HD Camcorder (a probably 1:1 mapping with those that have a new baby), I'd like to advertise this fact -

The Panasonic HDC-SD9 is a great little camcorder. It is currently the world's smallest 1080p camcorder and the video quality is pretty good. However, it does have one big gotcha - you cannot import/edit the video on your Mac or your PC in any straightforward manner.

It crashes iMovie. I had previously tested iMovie '08 with shot on a HDC-SX5, from Panny's previous generation and everything worked great. The SD9 has something different about its video that causes iMovie to crash while importing.

Today, I tried importing on my Windows Vista machine using Sony Vegas and that program went into a hang as well. I'm inclined to believe that this is clearly a problem with the camera.

The video does play back great on my PS3. I think we'll stick it out and see if Apple and/or Panasonic fix this issue.

New Coldplay Music

We love ourselves some music from Coldplay and we're really looking forward to their new album next month. Meanwhile, they are giving away their first single from the new album for free at their website. You can get their new song Violet Hill for free in MP3 format at Coldplay.com

What's not to like about that! Go get it.

New Cricket Ads in Chennai

This one had me in splits. Check it out.



From Arksantos'comment in this post from Hawkeye

If you liked that one, you owe it to yourself to check out the others in that post as well!

"Pandas make you smile"

They really do make you smile! I was suprised to see Anjali really enjoy this video even if she'd never seen a panda before.
Full article at NPR