DA Bears

One day away from SuperBowl XLI – Will Rex rock and Peyton plop. Or will the Colt of destiny come shinning through? I think DA Bears will run it. Their D will just barely hold on […]

Open Source

Internet Explorer 7

I rebuilt my work laptop and instead of installing Firefox or Opera I went with Internet Explorer 7. I installed from a test build I’d made using IEAK 7. The install went smoothly and after a […]

Computer

Windows Media Player 11

Don’t upgrade to Windows Media player 11, yet. (01-27-2007) I bypassed my usual Audio app iTunes on a newly built machine in an effort to force me to use Microsoft’s new Windows Media Player 11. I […]

Computer

Cloud Gate – The Bean

Cloud Gate – aka The Bean, Chicago 2007 7:45am Cloud Gate – aka The Bean, changes people with it’s presence. I think they should send it around the world. Cloud Gate is a sculpture by Indian-born […]

Photo

A brief history of Windows PCs

Your computer is what’s often (derogatorily) referred to as a “WinTel” machine on which the software is dominated by Microsoft Windows and the hardware is dominated by Intel. Intel was founded by three unhappy Fairchild Semiconductor […]

Computer

CMI Business Communications

“Can you operate the DOS prompt?” The day I started at CMI business Communications was the day I dropped almost 20 years of dabbling, schooling and professional work in the field of Photography. They didn’t want […]

Work

MCL Cafeteria

Ooooh oooh that smell, Cant you smell that smell… MCL (apologies to Lynyrd Skynyrd) MCL was my first real job. I washed dishes. A wee lad at just 4’10” I could barely reach the rack above […]

Work