A panorama shot of Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, made of three pictures taken from Downtown Disney. The pictures were taken with a Kodak EasyShare CS4230 and combined with hugin. In the foreground are part of the Lego brick dragon that lurks along the shore. I’m pretty impressed with hugin. These were taken with […]
Month: July 2007
Drumline at Practice
A couple of Windows and Exchange Links
del.icio.us and my blog were doing some wacky things this weekend (apparently I had different browsers posting to different del.icio.us accounts), but here are a few posts for you… Admin Rights As much as the common security advice is not to run as Admin, there are a number of tools that simply don’t work without […]
For Cameras, This Building Doesn’t Exist
Whatever you do, don’t take a picture of this building. Washington Post, Secret Buildings You May Not Photograph, Part 643: The only antidote to this security mania is sunshine. Only when more and more Americans do as McCammon has done and take the time and effort to chronicle these excesses and insist on answers from […]
Along the Sidewalk
A shopkeeper’s attempt to beautify the pedestrian.
Why Facebook?
Rob’s yawning over FaceBook and asks “What does it offer over LinkedIn?” They’ve got different purposes, that’s for sure. LinkedIn is great for professional appearance and job networking. I don’t think I’d try to find contacts through FaceBook for a new job. FaceBook, for me, is a fun way to connect with people, much less […]
Instruction for the Week
“Go and do likewise.” see Luke, 10:25-37.
RDP Fun with Vista
Trying to use Remote Desktop (RDP) to connect from a Windows Vista system to a non-Vista system can be challenging: Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the computer you want to connect to. My buddy Allen has a solution for that. Everybody say “thanks, dude!”
Go, then. There are other worlds than these
Salon: We are meant to be here [physicist Paul Davies’] new book, “The Cosmic Jackpot,” will challenge even the most open-minded readers. Without ever invoking God, Davies argues for a grand cosmic plan. The universe, he believes, is filled with meaning and purpose. Sounds interesting. Added to my to-read list.
SharedView
Is this to be the replacement for NetMeeting? At various points in time there were other contenders: Windows Messenger, Windows Collaboration, Office Live Meeting…