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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Ending a long day in Seattle with some good English brew shared with Darren.
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 […]
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 […]
[latest update: 2-May-08]
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 in computer aided mass assesment (CAMA) of real property […]
Added a Live Traffic Map (and a Masks at MoCA update) to my MARBLE/marble blog. It will be fun to watch.