Clifford Stoll wrote a book 20+ years ago called “The Cuckoo’s Egg”, which was his novel about how he helped track Soviet-backed computer hackers to their source. I bought the book after seeing him interviewed. Watching this man literally JUMP from idea to idea, rocking and moving as if his brain were going so much … Continue reading Scary Smart
Microsoft Hardware – Home Page…seriously, I don’t know. But I love my Microsoft Mouses (Mice? Meeces?)
As a digital photography nut, and the de-facto family photographer/videographer, I think this is pretty big news.Recently I blogged about PhotoZoom, plus a cute example of what it can do. And now I hear that the Photosynth site is now live and ready for you to use!“What is it?”Basically, it’s the idea that if you … Continue reading Photosynth is released!
Zoom in. Really.. zoom in. http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.htmlHave a great weekend!
MS Live Labs has a fun app called PhotoZoom. It’s a cool proof-of-concept around how you might handle and navigate through images. One application of this sort of technology that I thought was really cool was in zooming into very VERY large photos. Stay out to see the big picture, or zoom in to see … Continue reading Playing with PhotoZoom
I’m not sure if I’ve said this on my blog before, but I and my family are huge fans of Windows Media Center. I’ve got a dedicated (and actually pretty old and under-powered) Compaq desktop computer that’s running Windows Vista Ultimate edition, and has a TV-tuner card with two analog tuners, plus a HD USB … Continue reading I can control what I watch of the Olympics? Any event? Anytime I want?
I learned about this a couple weeks ago – and now it’s live. And in my opinion, it’s super cool, and WAY OVERDUE.http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/I personally LOVE THIS. But what do you think?
Okay.. I tweeted this.. So I better elaborate here in my blog.Currently I am in Seattle attending an internal Microsoft technology training event called “TechReady” (this is “TechReady 7”, for those of you counting). I think all the cool tech I saw demonstrated yesterday has entered my dreams. I woke up early this morning because … Continue reading Geeky Techno Dream
Interesting idea… have blog posts also show up in my Twitter feed. So this post is my first test of twitterfeed.com.
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Absolutely Full of I.T. 