Archive for December, 2007

Windows Live Writer

The Windows Live team has been very busy of late. They’re the hottest part of Microsoft these days. I’ve just installed and am trying out “Windows Live Writer” which supports web log posting. Here are a few icons I’ve created for an application I’m working on (details in February from New Orleans).
Edit: 01-Jan-08, On the [...]

Posted on 30-December-2007 at 01:00 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Software Design, Technology, Tools

5-Minute Artisan Bread

This is working out well. Don’t want to loose track of these instructions:
 From Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery that Revolutionizes Home Baking by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007). Copyright 2007 by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois.
Serves 4
Note: This recipe must be prepared in advance.

1-1/2 tablespoons granulated yeast [...]

Posted on 26-December-2007 at 18:19 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Cooking

Seattle 360

From the observation deck of the needle, I did a quick experiment: creating a 360-degree panorama for later stitching. Visibility was good (for Seattle) but overcast. Adjusted my zoom to get a good vertical angle of view, then experimentally determined that 12 paces resulted in optimum horizonal overlap. This resulted in 10 handheld shots around [...]

Posted on 23-December-2007 at 10:53 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Photography, Travel

Fremont Troll

Earlier  today, drove by this quite famous troll which sits under a bridge in funky Fremont, north of Seattle. Zoom in to see the vintage VW Bug under his claw.

Posted on at 00:57 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Art, Travel

Five Years ’till Doomsday

According to the Mayan Calendar, 5 years from today, time is undefined. It has ended.
As a child, I remember being fascinated with little circular-sliderule type perpetual calendars. These little marvels would allow you to construct the current calendar month. They typically had a useful range of several decades. This one is good until 2046.
The Maya [...]

Posted on 22-December-2007 at 10:37 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Religion, Science

Microsoft & the White Horse

Ending a long day in Seattle with some good English brew shared with Darren.

Posted on 21-December-2007 at 22:57 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Today, I am in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on business. This is in Bucks County, named by William Penn after his home town of Buckinghamshire in England. Bucks County is one of the most renown areas of the USA for colorful fall foliage.
Come February, I’ll be able to write more about this ‘business’ as we will be [...]

Posted on 18-December-2007 at 09:58 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Travel

Morumi

Krista Tippett is the host and creator of a groundbreaking public radio program and postcast, Speaking of Faith. SOF is unusual its sensitive and deeply insightful weekly in-depth treatment of controversial religious topics. This week her topic, The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi, is one of the best I’ve heard.
About three months ago, Rumi turned [...]

Posted on 15-December-2007 at 14:31 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Religion

Map Visualization with WPF and Silverlight

[latest update: 11NOV08] 
Moving and updating this post to two organized pages: GIS Visualization; XAML
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), a new extension to the .Net Framework from Microsoft, provides exciting new possibilities for rich data visualization. Long a fan of this intersection between art and science, I’m beginning a deap dive into WPF.
The company I’m working with currently deals [...]

Posted on 8-December-2007 at 16:53 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Software Design

MARBLE/marble blog update

Added a Live Traffic Map (and a Masks at MoCA update) to my MARBLE/marble blog. It will be fun to watch.

Posted on 1-December-2007 at 20:28 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
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