After fighting with this camera for several weeks I decided it was time to fix the AV out jack.
After an hour long disassembly, I find some broken solder joints.
Now the problem is my method of reassembling seems to be more efficient. What should I do with the spare parts?

For the past couple of months, I have been researching a purchase of a new HD-SLR camera. As this is my first HD-SLR, I have been doing a lot of reading, comparing and watching finished products.

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So how far would you go? You know that phrase has always scared me in the past. We often equate a calling of God to travel half way around the world to help missionaries or orphans in a developing country. But God calls us a whole lot more then we give Him credit for. Sometimes you can be called to serve in the children’s ministry at your church or at the soup kitchen downtown. When ever you feel that you are being asked to go outside of your comfort zone, you can bet that God probably has a hand in it.

So how far would you go when God asks you? Recently I went over 1300 miles. Continue Reading…

A few weeks back I got a new Jeep for my wife. She’s loving it and I get to drive it occasionally. But for a while I would turn the Jeep off and the information display would say “message”. I would scroll through all the menus trying to find the message that the Jeep wanted to give me. I was ready to turn in my geek card and read the manual when one day the display said “boneyard”. Then I realized that I was a bonehead and the display was telling me the name of the radio station that was on.
I have no idea why the vehicle information system has to tell me the name of the radio station when I can clearly see it on the radio. Only the engineers at Jeep know that answer. But as for me, I get to keep my geek card and keep this idiot moment a secret between me and you.