While I was going through those same old photos, I also ran across this one, too. I had actually discovered this one a couple years ago, but I decided to let CS3 try to make a better job of it. This is stitched together from eight photographs that I took from our hotel window. Chu-Wan … Read more
I was going through some old scans of negatives when I happened to notice that two shots I took of the Edinburgh skyline from the hill that Edinburgh castle sits on overlapped enough to let Photoshop CS3 have a go at stitching them together. The results were not too bad. I love surprises like this! … Read more
If ever there was a classic example of the rape of the taxpayers, this is it. The so-called “University of Phoenix Stadiumâ€. It’s not the University of Phoenix’s stadium, they just bid to have the naming rights. This is the stadium for the Phoenix Cardinals, not that they could be bothered to pay for their … Read more
MS-DOS running on my MacBook. Is there nothing I won’t stoop too? Technorati Tags: Apple, Blog, Computer, Mac, MacBook, OSX
It was big, it was dangerous, a top predator of the Cambrian Explosion and, in Japan, a plush toy for the kids. I want one. Original site: (in Japanese) Technorati Tags: Blog, Japan, Paleontology
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest has been run again and the winners are in! What’s the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest? An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening … Read more
Finally! 5400 RPM 2.5“ SATA drives over 200GB are available. I found a good deal online for a Western Digital 250GB model and ordered it last week. It arrived today and with the help of an external hard drive and Carbon Copy Cloner, in just 5 hours, I have completed duplicated my old MacBook drive … Read more
Those wacky Japanese aerobics girls are at it again… This time, how to exercise your way through an abusive argument. Technorati Tags: Blog, Japan, Japanese, Video, YouTube
It’s not flooding like in Britain, but ol’ mother nature really gave it a good try today in a 6 square mile area around my house. Between 3:00 and 4:00PM, water levels rose over an inch above the sidewalks. Technorati Tags: Arizona, Blog
Just a tip that I found useful. When I first purchased Parallels Workstation (back when it was beta), I setup my VM Windows XP installation and I decided (unwisely) that I needed a very small virtual disk drive because I didn’t want to waste space on my MacBook. I didn’t realize that the virtual drive … Read more