Wow, I didn’t even know this was possibly until my friend offhandedly mentioned it to me today, which really bugged me because he knows this stuff and fails to tell me most of the time until it’s already old news.

There is an application out there called PlayOn, which you can download here and read more about it.  The purpose of PlayOn is to provide a means for your various electronic devices to browse and display video content from all kinds of places, like Hulu.com, ESPN.com, CBS and more. Heck, even Netflix!

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Some of you have astutely noticed already that A Mike Life now has a Photos tab and a bunch of photo albums to look at. Well, all of these are really just photo albums I’ve uploaded to Facebook. So how did I get them here?

There is a Wordpress plugin called “Fotoshoot” which allows you to use a Facebook application to link your blog to your Facebook account and thus your photo albums.

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I don’t have my copy yet, but I pre-ordered The Dark Knight on Blu-Ray this past weekend and it’s now sitting at Best Buy waiting for me to pick it up.

Seems like I wasn’t the only one interesting in grabbing a copy. On the day it was released (Tuesday, the 9th), there were 600,000 Blu-Ray discs sold. That smashed the old record by Iron Man of 250,000.

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Some of you out there watch Fringe, and rightly so. It’s a good show. Not awesome like Lost, but still good. Well, if you do watch it, you probably remember The Observer: a bald guy with no eyebrows who can usually be spotted at scenes involving The Pattern.

Well, this video below catalogs all his appearances, and some of them (surprisingly) took place before we were even introduced to him.

I will say, turn the sound down after awhile, the voiceover between scenes gets annoying.

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This is a totally off-topic post from the normal kid stuff, but it’s completely up the alley of what I used to talk about before my life got taken over by this beautiful tooting machine known as Lyla.

A lot of you who read my blog are also DirecTV subscribers, a few of you even have a high-definition TV.

I get a lot of grief if I don’t pass on DTV tips and updates, so I wanted to let you all know that channel 8 is now in HD here in the Phoenix market, as well as a bunch of others:

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I uploaded more photos to Facebook this week and wanted to pass on the links in case some of you aren’t on Facebook and thus aren’t notified (something you should correct!).

Week 2 Photos

Week 1 Photos

Oh yeah, you may not because they are my dogs, but I love these up-close shots I took of them today. Used the macro setting on the camera which allows super-close focusing.

I’ve uploaded some more photos to Facebook of the few days Lyla has been at home which you can visit by clicking here.

I really love this one below.

Here are a few pictures of Lyla…we’re trying to take more, but it’s really been nothing but feeding and sleeping the last 48 hours.

As before, you can see all of them over on Facebook by clicking here.

Read more to see the pictures…

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Meet this little guy from Bangladesh named Dipok who is about to turn 5 years old. He’s part of the Compassion International program where people like you and me can sponsor a child from a multitude of impoverished countries. They are a Christian child advocacy ministry and they help these children grow into responsible, educated and fulfilled Christian adults.

We got the heads up about this place from Anne Jackson’s blog, who regularly tries to get her readers to become part of this process.

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On September 5th, 2007, I posted my 101 in 1001 list, which was essentially a list of a bunch of things I wanted to accomplish/do in the next 1001 days.

I got the idea from Melissa Jill, who did our anniversary photos last year.

Anyways, I sort of forgot about the list once I found myself going full-bore on Pop Critics. I just didn’t have time to post blogs over on A Mike Life and so things got tossed aside. But now that stuff is gone and I’m going to get back to finishing off this list.

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It’s week 22 and Lyla sure is kicking and raising all kinds of ruckus.

Funny, when I was typing her name above, I automatically put “Elyla” first and couldn’t figure out what was wrong for a second there.

Old habits die hard.

So like I said, she’s moving around a lot, but I haven’t been able to feel it again since that first time, no matter how often we try.

According to our handy baby size emails that Jina gets, Lyla is the size of a Papaya and wont be changing much size-wise in the next coming weeks. At least, we’re in the range Week 22-24 now, and this is the fruit we get to cover that time period.

Here is what is going on with her now:

“Watch what you say — baby is now able to hear outside noise from down in the womb. Studies show that baby finds gentle music and your own voice most soothing. Nipples are starting to sprout, and that little face is fully formed. And, baby’s starting to settle into sleep cycles, snoozing about 12 to 14 hours a day. It shouldn’t be hard to figure out when — just pay attention to those kicks as they start and stop.”

It’s almost perfect timing really, because football starts in about a month and if she can already hear noises from outside the womb, then she’s going to be a NFL fan in just a few weeks.

Jina is doing great though despite some increasing discomfort. We’re starting to get to work on the baby’s room and I finally hung some blinds up last night to keep the hot afternoon sun out of there.

Other than that, life is good. I just finished my last class at University of Phoenix on Monday, so a few tests are in order and I’m done with school.