I have decided to backup home videos from MiniDV to an external hard drive.

I have three kids.  As you can imagine, I’ve spent quite a lot of time videotaping them.  I have hours and hours of footage, sitting on MiniDV tapes and I need to move that video from those tapes to some other storage media.  In the past, I’ve made a few DVDs, but I want to backup the files on a giant external hard drive.

I have just ordered a pair of 500 GB drives and a 4-pin to 4-pin firewire cable.  I’ll begin to transfer videos as soon as theses items arrive.  (My new laptop requires a 4-pin adapter.)

I don’t know a whole lot about video transfer and compression, but I think I know enough to copy the files from the MiniDV tapes to the hard drive.  Any input would be appreciated.

I have decided to update my social network profiles.

Right now, I have profiles (which I encourage you to check out) over at -

Twitter

FriendFeed

StumbleUpon

Technorati

Delicious

Digg

I need to spend some time organizing and updating my profiles.  I need to add 99 Changes to many of my profiles and I need to update many of them with my new logo.  Also, I need to focus on connecting with others, via these various sites.