Archive for July, 2007

Just another Thursday

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

What can I say? I can’t wait for Friday to come! The weather is going to be great and as an added bonus everyone at Critical Mass gets out at 3PM to start the weekend in style. I hope to get through the huge pile of photos tomorrow, I just installed Photoshop Lightroom from the guys at Adobe. I was pretty impressed with it when I installed it on my Mac from a recommendation of a colleague at work. Albeit, I just messed around with a few photos at the time. This time around is a different story, I’ve installed it on my (gasp!) Vista desktop and plan on checking out how it handles big batches of images. I have high hopes it will work out for me.

I picked up a copy of Weeds season 1 and Crash on Blu-ray today, both of which got absolutely stellar reviews. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to get through one of these on the weekend.

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Pictures are so 1999

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

So I’ve been putting off sorting through the 800 odd photos that I took over the seven days that a colleague and I were in New York City for hands on training on a new piece of software that Critical Mass had purchased to use on some upcoming projects. The guys at RedDot Solutions did a great job of putting us through training for LiveServer. Coming out of that training, we both felt we came away with a good understanding of what we can accomplish for LiveServer, as well as an added bonus we got some long standing answers for their CMS product that we’ve been mulling over for a while. I’d say it was definitely worth the trip with all that we’ve learned.

As for the photos, skimming through them when I first got back, I’m glad I fired off as many photos as I did. I am by no means a good amature photographer, and it was quite evident when some of the photos ended up being pretty blurry. I also have a bad habit of not checking the camera settings before I go off and take a whole bunch of shots. For example, I had bracketing enabled for a couple dozen shots before I realized that it was on. Of these, 1/3 of them are exposed correctly. I’m going to try and sort through most of them over the weekend, and upload them to my newly “pro-ized” flickr account.

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An update of sorts!

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Well, I’ll try not to be long winded in postings moving forward. As a colleague at work said, and I’m paraphrasing to the extreme because of my usually terrible memory. “Having a blog with the only the intial post makes it look like you never finish anything.” That did make a whole lot of sense as soon as I heard that. What’s the point of going through all the hoops of setting up a blog interface if it’s never going to be used?

I’ve decided that the blog thing is worth the investment (Hey, I build serious internet business apps in my day job, I might as well immerse myself with the . My plan is to post at least twice a week, and I’m going to hold myself to that. Maybe just postings about random things I find interesting, or something new I’ve learned at work, or a rant about some obscure bug that plagued me for an entire day.

Anyway, on to the first (or second?) update to this blog.

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