January 2009 Blog Posts
Watching the inauguration was an interesting experience. It was quite awe inspiring to see the vast ocean of people that had converged on the Capitol to witness the affair. The event itself was not very long and the majority of those who came to witness it ended up watching it on jumbotron screens anyway.
Nothing wholly remarkable happened except Obama's flubbing of the Oath of Office. It seemed that Justice Roberts was giving him a bit more than a mouthful to say, but it seems to me that for such an occasion, you'd have the oath memorized anyway.
It will be very...
I've been taking Windows 7 for a spin and kicking its tires, which was relatively painless. Installation went quick, smooth without any bumps and I was quite impressed with how quickly it boots up. If eye candy is your thing, then Windows 7 definitely has it, building upon the Aero interface with the new addition of the tuned up taskbar. One of the things that I really thought was cool with the windows that have a progress bar (think installations, copying of files, downloads etc), the progress would reflect in the app in the taskbar. What this means is that...
Tonight I'm installing Windows 7. I just got it installed after only twenty minutes from the time the install program booted. At a glance, there is lots of eye candy. I really enjoyed that the startup animation is in true 32-bit graphics instead of 8. I can see that it already has quite a bit of polish to it. First disappointment? I have a burned disc that contains (among other things) anti-virus software and for some weird reason, it detects it as a blank disc. I'll go download some now, and will do live updates as the night goes on.
UPDATE...
Today Microsoft opened the floodgates for the common schmo to download the latest beta build of Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7--only to have the water trickle ever so slowly out like the leaking toilet I fixed last night. When I woke up this morning at 7am CST, the Windows blog was up, but the download was not yet available. When I got to work more than and hour later, the site was down, barfing a 503 error. So much for a 12pm PST kickoff...
So here I am, doing what any resourceful, impatient geek would do, downloading a copy through...
I was checking out how to do time lapse photography after browsing through YouTube earlier this week. They have a million videos showing time lapse, this one of a thunderstorm is pretty cool. So, I got to thinking that there ought to be some software that would be able to automagically take the photographs at a given interval. After checking out a few packages, I didn't feel like paying the money to purchase them, so I got to thinking that if there is software to do it, there ought to be an API to programatically do it myself.
So I...