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New user? Saturday, July 1, 2000
2 new panos forthcoming
Today, Alex, Justin and I took two new panoramas. I used the same camera I used last Canada Day -- it's produces 640x480 images. Maybe I'll have a nice 3Mpixel+ camera by next Canada Day.
The first panorama, already processed, is of the Gorge Waterway in Victoria, from a walkway in the Kinsmen Gorge park. I spent a lot of time in this park between the ages of 12 and 16, we lived just outside the park.
The second panorama, which I'm working on, is shot atop the Selkirk Trestle, which is now a pedestrian walkway / bike path. Until sometime in the 1920s, it was an important part of the railway here on Vancouver Island.
As soon as both panoramas are ready, I'll upload them and make them available for download on the QTVR pano page.
Happy Birthday Canada!
Last year, Alex and I went to the top of Mt. Douglas, and we shot our first ever QTVR panorama. This year, we're going to make another pano... it's becoming a tradition. :) I don't know where we're going yet.
2 new panos uploaded
I've uploaded 2 new QuickTime VR panoramas. They are available from the bottom of the panoramas page. Check out the Kinsmen Gorge Park, and the Selkirk Trestle bridge, both along the Gorge waterway.
Friday, June 30, 2000
Fly in style
Now this is flying in style! -- British Airways business class has a fully reclinable seat (ie: bed), personal audio/video system, laptop accomidations... etc.
Windows 2000 and QuickTime
Last night I spent hours trying to get QuickTime 4.1.2 installed properly on Windows 2000. No matter what I did, the browser plugins would not be installed, and Windows Media Player refused to give up control of those datatypes.
After much hacking, and manually copying the plugins from my machine onto this new one, I got it pretty much working.
Bastards.
International e-business
Another great article found via Faisal.com:
Sale means "dirty" in French. -- "Would you open a spiffy new storefront in downtown Yokohama, conduct business exclusively in English and accept only U.S. dollars as payment? ThatÂ’s what most e-commerce companies are doing."
Thursday, June 29, 2000
An introduction to C#
An Introduction to C# -- once I allow myself to unlearn the mantras (or handcuffs) that disciplined Java programming has burdened me with, and reaffirm to myself that I am a smart programmer, or at least, was before I started programming in Java, that I can handle doing "unsafe things" without shooting myself in the foot, I see that C# is indeed a sweet language that I could do great things with.
There are numerous things I don't like about it, but then there are many things I don't like about Java and every other language too.
My hope now is that C#'s runtime and classes are ported far and wide. I like the tie-in with XML and SOAP. I don't like the tie-in with Windows.
Calvin and Hobbes
What a grand day! I found a link to the official Calvin and Hobbes web site on Faisal.com. They're reissuing the cartoons, on a daily basis, starting from 1985. *contentment*
New machine...
Oooh... ahhh. My customer (yes, customer) sent me a new computer (PIII600/256MB) to do development on, since my computer is not very beefy (P233MMX/128MB).
This is my first serious experience with Windows 2000. Everything's different! It's taking me forever to find things that I could find in NT4. To be expected, it's just a little disorienting.
Thankfully, this machine has two video cards in it so I have both of my 19" monitors plugged into it.
Now I have to install all of the software I need to be productive.
Seed Destruction
9 of the 16 seeded women have already been eliminated at Wimbledon 2000.
10 of the 16 seeded men have already been eliminated at Wimbledon 2000.
WHAT THE HELL? It's only the start of the 3rd round!
DX extends VDE
The person who did VDE is the person doing DesktopX. Check out this page for the full effect of VDE.
Eye Candy... mmm...
Wicked stuff... Stardock, one of my all time favourite companies, is working on DesktopX, which was inspired by OpenDoc, and hopes to bring similar metaphors to Windows/COM. (cf article from The Register)
Active Desktop
All this talk of DesktopX actually made me try out the "ActiveDesktop" on the new W2K box. I've put my home page and the Subhonker Filter on my desktop.
I'd never do this to my machine, I don't trust this stuff, but hey this isn't MY machine! ;-)
