October 30, 2007
I’ve been shopping around for a small point and shoot digital camera since my wonderful little Casio Exilim EX-S20 camera managed to part ways with my luggage on a recent Continental flight to London. (I’ve flown more than half a million miles in recent years on a variety of airlines and never lost anything. […]
Tags: EyeFi, Nikon, photography
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October 30, 2007
When I announced my departure from Microsoft, LiveSide.net observed that I wasn’t alone in my decision to make a change, nor in my timing. LiveSide noted a few other Microsofties exiting in late September/early October, as did Mary Jo Foley in her ZDNet column. Both articles were professional and well-written and stayed away from […]
Tags: Microsoft
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October 27, 2007
Sitting at a traffic light
Glance in the mirror. Schoolbus approaching.
Glance in the mirror. Schoolbus bumper.
Big bumper.
Right on my tail.
Damned tailgators.
And still moving.
Ouch!
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October 22, 2007
Gizmag reports that researchers at the University of Michigan have used nanoscale fabrication techniques to create a light-weight transparent composite plastic that’s as strong as steel.
The interdisciplinary team of scientists solved a problem that has confounded engineers and scientists for decades: individual nano-size building blocks such as nanotubes, nanosheets and nanorods are ultrastrong, but larger […]
Tags: nanofab, science
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October 22, 2007
The Register reports that UK authorities arrested the owner of the TV-links web site, not because the site contained unauthorized copyrighted material, but because it contained links to unauthorized copyrighted material stored elsewhere on the internet.
This case is worrisome because it heads down the slippery slope of guilt by association. If the UK authorities arrested […]
Tags: copyright, law
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October 22, 2007
The cool cats over at Karelia Software have released an update to their award-winning website creation software, Sandvox, which among other things adds support for PicLens presentations. Sandvox now embeds mediaRSS feeds in photo albums and photoblogs, which is all that PicLens needs to present that web content in a full-screen immersive presentation.
PicLens: […]
Tags: mediaRSS, PicLens, Safari
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October 21, 2007
A recent post to the borland.public.delphi.non-tech newsgroup asserts that as a compiler guy, I shouldn’t be wasting my time doing anything else. This is my reply.
m. Th. wrote:
First of all, Danny, I’m very glad to see you here… …but let’s start a little ’short story’ (dunno if you remember them) ;-)…
Danny Thorpe wrote:
Yes, I’m […]
Tags: Borland, Delphi, rant
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October 20, 2007
Walking down a sidewalk
Hedges neatly trimmed
Every posey in its place
Duck! Low branch.
Short gardener?
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October 19, 2007
Male or female?
Can’t quite tell.
Does it shave?
Might as well.
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October 16, 2007
The CoolIris PicLens plugin for Firefox has made it to the official Firefox browser recommended plugins list! Woohoo!
PicLens is a browser plugin that delivers an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web. It’s currently available in beta for Firefox 2.0 on Windows and for Safari on Mac OSX. Support for more browser […]
Tags: Firefox, PicLens
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