September 2009 Archives

Noticed what (to me) is a huge spider outside the back door, positioned very nicely for a little photo shoot. I called him Spider-Zilla or Spidersaurus Rex. Oh, and he's not that big compared to "real" spiders, but viewing the images at 1:1 zoom on my monitor? Freaky eyes. Cool that I was able to get them though, that's the first time I've had the luck/lens/huge arachnid to get me close enough to see eyes. Still, not bad for a boring household spider no?

Nothing special, camera on a tripod, lowest ISO possible for the best quality, 2 second delay for the least shake, my flash on camera (by the time I got it into wireless mode he had gotten tired of me and decided to go hide up in the beams). Here's another one to help you sleep at night.

Just a quick note to my dad to say a very happy birthday!

So I got a copy of the new, yet-to-be-released-but-finished, Windows 7 from my favorite company, Microsoft. I've actually been getting a bit excited about this, as it's heralded to be a newer, better, less sucky version of Vista. And even some of the hardcore tech bloggers and personalities are getting a bit excited about it.

Now I haven't had that many issues with Vista, but I tend to tell people that it's bi-polar. Half the time it works fine, smooth, easy, no issues at all, but the other half of the time it's stalling, crunching away, not able to delete files, sitting and doing nothing while blocking me from doing things, etc. But then you reboot (or reboot several times) and suddenly it's back to being completely normal and working beautifully.

So I managed to shanghai a legit copy of Windows 7 from my buddy in the Microsoft camp, and after finishing 3 triple redundant backups of my system and photos, I was finally ready last night to do the install. Memories of my Vista install were coming back now.

I opted to not upgrade as my Windows install was 3 years old and had, as Windows tends to do, accumulated a fair amount of software cruft, and a clean install felt like the right thing to do.

Read on....

Is it odd sad that the most exciting parts of my evening are that the new season of America's Next Top Model is starting, there's a new iTunes and a new iPhone OS update out?