Extend Microsoft Windows or Office activation period

If you are using Microsoft Windows 7/Vista or Office as a trial, you can extend it from the default 30 period to 120 days by doing this: Simply click on the Start button and in the search window, type in cmd and you'll see the Command Prompt at the top of the page. Don't press Enter yet — instead, right-mouse click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator. Now, after the Command Prompt loads up, type this: slmgr.vbs -rearm and the hit Enter and reboot. That's it.

1. Click on the Start button and type in "cmd". Don't press Enter and instead right-click on the shortcut and select "Run as Administrator".
2. Type slmgr.vbs -rearm and then hit Enter.
3. Reboot.

And now it should be good to go for 120 days.

My Recipe for Atlantic Salmon

Things you'll need:

• 2-4 lemons
• 2 fillets of Atlantic Salmon (or more if you want more)
• Lawry's Lemon Pepper Marinade
• Something to bake it all in (tempered glass baking dish is what I used)
• Salt and pepper
• Olive oil

Instructions

1. Slice up the lemons. Not too thick but not too thin.
2. Lay them evenly on the bottom of the baking dish
3. Lightly and carefully wash the fish under cold water. Not too much but just enough to get any gross film off them. Be careful though because they are very fragile.
4. Brush a thin film of olive oil on it so the salt and pepper stick better.
5. Lay the fish skin-side down and salt and pepper the pink side.
6. Lay the pink side of the fish down onto the lemons in the baking dish.
7. Now the skin side should be facing up. Salt and pepper that side too.
8. Dump the bottle of lemon pepper marinade in and make sure the fish are mostly covered in it.
9. Cover with foil and stick in the frig for like an hour to soak it up.
10. When you are ready, pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Then stick the whole thing in the oven for about 25 minutes.

Note: You can take the fish out after about 20 minutes and check it.

I'm not sure the best way to check the fish so I just cut off a tiny

piece to taste test it.

If you plan to do asparagus, then this is how I did it:

1. Break off the ends.
2. Rinse each one thoroughly in cold water to get the dirt off.
3. Boil water in a pan. Cook them for about 3-5 minutes in the boiling water.

UltraViolet Digital Downloads are Junk!

I was a background extra in the movie, "Contagion". The mostest boringestest movie ever, but that's another story. At least it was fun being an extra. Anyway, it recently came out on Blu-ray and DVD. I don't even have a Blu-ray player but I bought the BR anyway because I wanted the "digital copy" that I could play in iTunes and stream to my AppleTV. Normally I buy DVD's. And this time I wish I had because little did I know what I had gotten myself into.


I get home and open it up and start to go through the process of getting my digital download copy only to realize that they are using this new technology called, "UltraViolet". Here's what this means:

1. You have to install Adobe AIR on your computer and jump through hoops for the code activation. Then if you're lucky, you *might* be able to watch the movie on your laptop. This whole process took over half an hour to setup. And that's if you're lucky enough to even make it through the whole process.
2. UV is so heavily DRM'd that you can't do much with it (like drop it into iTunes for instance). It will ONLY playback using their boggy, slow, junky software.
3. To watch it on your smartphone or tablet, you have to download the Flixster app and then download the UV movie through that. And then once you've done all that, you will have a low quality version of the movie AND you STILL can't even AirPlay it to your AppleTV. So this means you are stuck watching it on your tiny smartphone screen.

So bottom line is that you have two movie watching choices. First, you can watch the UV digital download on your laptop through the slow, buggy, crashy, Adobe AIR application or you can view it on your smartphone or tablet using the Flixster app. TOTAL AND COMPLETE GARABAGE!! And if you don't believe me, go buy a BR movie with an Ultraviolet digital download and then tell me what you think of it. You will be pulling your hair out. They did this with Green Lantern and Harry Potter also.

Here's what the movie looks like on iPhone. Notice,... no AirPlay option. Grrrr!!

After all this, I then went to the Flixster support site and sent an email asking them to just give me an iTunes code instead because this wasn't the usual normal type of digital download. They responded that they were "investigating the matter". Then I sent a second letter. Now I have two separate support ticket numbers. They responded with a generic email saying how great their product is. It's been two weeks and really nobody has contacted me back.

After this I go on Twitter and tweet bad things about Warner Bros/Flixster/Ultraviolet. Soon after I get a response from a reporter (@benfritz) from the LA Times. He wanted to interview me about this subject but I responded to his tweet request too late. But thankfully he got everything he needed anyway and ran this article: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan...iolet-20120111

I also got a response from @FlixsterUVHelp asking me if I needed help. I told him that their product is junk, that I will never buy anything that says "Ultraviolet" on it again and that I want an iTunes code or we having nothing else to discuss. He then said I should contact Flixster support. Good one @FlixsterUVHelp. Thanks for offering to help but I'm just getting the runaround. But it's OK. I've already made up my mind. I will never buy another movie that says "UltraViolet" on it again.

Anyway,... long story short, I wish I had just bought the DVD instead. Then I could've at the very least, just ripped my own video file that would work in iTunes. Oh well. Lesson learned.