Monday, December 10th, 2007

Twitter, what it is to me.

I'm not much os a web 2.0 guy, all of the social networking sites seem to me are a waste of time.  I am a member of http://www.linkedin.com/, but I don't use it that often.  http://twitter.com/ is a site that I just have no use for and here's my take on the usefulness of the site:

Perhaps I'm just getting old... I never was one of the cool kids either, so I just don't get it.

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Thursday, July 26th, 2007

How Nerdy Am I?

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Saw this on <a href="http://www.lotusgeek.com/SapphireOak/LotusGeekBlog.nsf/d6plinks/ROLR-75G67Y" title="http://www.lotusgeek.com/SapphireOak/LotusGeekBlog.nsf/d6plinks/ROLR-75G67Y">Rock's </a> blog and had to take it. I'm a bit surprised by my score, but that's not really a bad thing now, is it?

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Posted by: Jamie at: 01:46:13 PM

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Friday, June 15th, 2007

Link of the Quarter - Motion Art

Well, as I'm trying to seek some more balance in my life one of the things that I decided that I needed to correct was the lack of blogging.  I still like it, so why am I not doing it?  I'll start off with a link.... those are always fun to post.

Tim Knowles is an artist.  He specializes in capturing the motion of objects that we would otherwise consider stationary.  There are pictures of the reflections of full moons in water, very cool.  He's attached pens to the branches of trees and put up the resulting work, very cool indeed.  Having an art background (my mother has taught me art since I was 5 and I was originally an art major at Penn State) I find the work sparse, lacking in composition, color and the work looks incomplete.  In contrast to that, I find it very intriguing.  Knowing a tree 'drew' this artwork is very interesting.  I find it freeing, immensely interesting and amazingly complex considering what created it.  Feel free to browse around the site; I think you'll find it more absorbing than you think.

EDIT: I was told that the previous link wasn't working, apparently when this is rendering the link it's adding a lot of other stuff.  I'll have to check it out.  Manually copy and past the link below to see it.
Link: http://www.timknowles.co.uk/Work/TreeDrawings/CircularWeepingWillow/tabid/266/Default.aspx

I'm interested to see what a drawing made in the midst of an earthquake would look like.  More emotion that I expected is displayed in these pieces and I bet an earthquake would be very volatile.

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Posted by: Jamie at: 06:21:51 AM

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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Vista is an acronym

Windows Vista is getting a lot of attention these days.  Many bloggers are giving detailed examinations of Microsoft's successor to WIndows XP, but this is not one of them.  I think that Vista stands for something.  Very Irritating Settings Tucked Away.... Virtually Impotent Security That's Annoying.... Vista Is Software To Avoid... and then there is the one I found on the net: Virus Infected Switch To Apple.
Disclaimer... I have not used Vista before today.
Well, I'm not switching to Apple and I'm not saying that Vista is a total piece of crap, yet, but I am going to say that my experience with it today left a nasty taste in my mouth.
I'm setting up the new sales guy's new laptop and it came with Vista on it.  Now I didn't have time to do a proper wipe and install of XP (like the rest of the company) and da boss said to just leave it there...
The OS is so different that it took me 5 minutes to figure out where 'My Computer' is (and it's not called My Computer anymore).  
Trying to make Windows Explorer display in a folder view took 2 people to figure out.  
Every stinkin time I did anything I was asked "Is this allowed?" by the wonderful new security scheme.  Annoying prompts does not true security make...boy the Apple commercials were right on.  
I went to install the 'Vista and Office 2007' CRM 3.0 addin for Outlook and it would not even run correctly.  
I went to modify the hosts file and it said that I did not have access... oh did I fail to mention that I'm a Domain Administrator AND listed in the local Admin group?  How much more access do I need to have?  There isn't a higher level of access on a Windows Domain!  The real kicker was when I moved the hosts file to my desktop, edited it and moved it back to the System32 folder... looks like the security guy in dark glasses missed that one.  
Oh, and the 'Documents and Settings' folder (where all the user data is stored) is now called "Users".  I wonder how many programs are going to break because of that 'little' change.  I remember when they changed it to 'Documents and Settings'... geesh.  They should have left that one alone.
Dealing with Vista took what is a simple task (setting up some programs on a laptop for a salesman to use) and made it an ordeal.  It looks fantastic, but my productivity fell through the floor when trying to get anything done on it.
"You are coming to a sad realization, cancel or allow?... Allow."

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Posted by: Jamie at: 05:47:20 PM

Location: Acworth, GA

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Monday, March 5th, 2007

Link of the Week - Nailed Jell-O

Umm.. yeah.  My links of the week are know far and wide to be entirely uneducational strange and most of the time.. useless.  Well, this one does not dissapoint my dear readers!

Link: Nailed Jell-O

Just one thing to say about this.... Duuuuuude.  Like man, that was like...wwwhooaaa

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Posted by: Jamie at: 09:55:00 AM

Location: Acworth, GA

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Monday, February 26th, 2007

Link of the Week - Matrix Dancing

Not really Matrix-related (which is a good thing) but cool nonetheless.  From what I can tell this is a photographer's website and this is one of his collections.  He's taken photos of people dancing and caught them in mid-air.

Check em out: Dancers In Mid-Flight

My favorite: "Dude, watch me sping around with my head on this pole!"

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Posted by: Jamie at: 04:43:00 AM

Location: Acworth, GA

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Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Messin with my head

So, I've acquired a copy of the unreleased beta of Notes 8 (ha ha.. suckers!) and I must say I like it a lot.  I installed the full eclipse version over my 7.02 install.  I think it's the first beta, so I can live with the quirky things (like switching to another application to have Notes take back over the screen) but one of the things that messin with my head is the change from the name 'Database' to 'Application'.  Yeah, instead of 'File>Database>Properties" it's now "File>Applications>Properties" and replication is now "(Right Click) Replicate Selected Application".  It literally took me a few minutes to find what I was looking for.  "Holy confusion Batman!"
My early impression... very nice.  I'd prefer a more 'snappy' interface and a smaller install footprint but then again this is still beta software.  Lotus will get there before it's Gold.

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Location: Acworth, GA

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