Was cleaning out my desk and found this….
Pictures here.
“Remember Gary? Gary from the office, good times.”
Went for a walk in Fish Creek Park in Calgary and just at the southern end of Sikome Lake we heard a bird crying.
Looked like a little plover and it sounded like this.
Wish we had these…
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Unfortunately where I live they probably wouldn’t last fifteen minutes; notice the nice white paint and the missing glass (smashed)…
Not sure what caused the actual problem but it seems that shortly after upgrading Leopard on my Macbook Pro to 10.5.7 my Macbook wouldn’t fall asleep properly and wouldn’t show all my shared computers in Finder.
I tried a variety of things but finally the simplest solution worked, I deleted the SystemConfiguration folder inside the /Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences folder and rebooted the computer.
This fixed both the sleep issue and the shared computers not showing up in Finder issue.
Good Luck.
I recently powered though the new Resident Evil 5 title in about 10 hours (rounded up from 8.9) which was fairly disappointing for a $60 game. Technically the game was superb both in terms of graphics, controls, and gameplay. But the story and length of the game were severely disappointing. Not sure why but the Japanese game makers make technically great games but their stories are so convoluted I usually give up trying to follow any of it (see if you can make any sense out of Metal Gear Solid 4) and just pound my way through the levels and then I get rid of the game.
Modern cameras have become very powerful and have myriads of features to help us take better and more pictures.
Unfortunately with all that power comes significant complexity which sometimes makes it hard to use these cameras and gear effectively.
Somewhere in my basement I still have the original Watchmen comic books from way back when (1987) and consequently was thrilled to hear that a movie was made then disappointed when it got slammed by the main stream media.
When I finally went to see it I found a movie that was a a faithfull adaptation of the original comic book. It was dark, gritty, the casting and acting were excellent and the special FX were stunning.
And yet I couldn’t wait for the long (162 minutes = almost three hours) movie to end. Maybe it was that I already knew the ending which is equally dark or maybe I’m just too used to the instant gratification of the recent spate of Hollywood movies whereas Watchmen stuck to the pace of the original story which slowly and inexorably led us to its inevitable conclusion.
Again, all the technical elements of a great movie were there but for some reason it just didn’t come together for me but nevertheless is certainly didn’t suck. A worthy adaptation of a comic book classic.
Oracle Components for Java (OC4J) is a top notch J2EE container based on the Orion J2EE Server.
OC4J provides a number of mechanisms for user authentication; the older less secure method which uses the principals.xml file and a newer method based on the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) standard.
Oracle’s implementation of JAAS is known as JAZN (Java AuthoriZatioN).
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Parallels just release version 4.0 of their Mac Desktop and they claim that with the new 3D (DirectX and OpenGL) support we can now play games on their Hypervisor.
Thought I’d give it a try and the results are mixed, to get any kind of play without jerkyness I had to reduce the resolution down to at least 800×600 (results were best at 640×480) and dumb the details way down.
I recently attended a photography workshop by Darwin Wiggett and although I’ve been shooting pictures for a while it still turns out that I knew nothing (now I only know next to nothing) about photography.
If you want to gain an insight into how to take better pictures I highly recommend Darwins seminars, check out his web site for seminar dates.