tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370713992011-07-08T01:15:24.539-04:00Collections of observations, discoveries, ideas and thoughtsHarry Forsdickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00363203944903973389noreply@blogger.comBlogger1501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37071399.post-90205596730919333942010-01-03T08:54:00.001-05:002010-01-03T08:56:43.747-05:00

I have been getting Windows 7 to work on my PC. By the way, Windows 7 is wonderful. Here is the solution to a problem I have been having which I want to record so that I can refer to it in the future. Sorry that this isn't more interesting to the general populace...Network Share not working through Windows 7 home premium:How to fix things on Windows 7 so that you can access a Windows 2000 shared

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Dump.comhttp://theportfolio.ofmichaelanderson.com/

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Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows DownloadsAnother version of things to load up immediately on a Windows PC. Lifehacker, by the way is a quality publication that comes up with many useful ideas and apps.

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My friend Tom is an avid cyclist. When I came back from Florida I mentioned several websites that I have been using to map various routes, as well as tracks from my various GPS tracking devices. He send me his findings as well as this update:Here's an update: http://www.bikemap.net is still the best I've found, although all of them have warts. My maps are at http://www.bikemap.net/user/

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WorldmapperFor those who like Maps, this is a tour de force in maps. There are many themes followed in the same format: a web page with explanations accompanied by a PDF suitable for posting on a bulletin board. In addition, they back up their maps with the data used to produce them.

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tipjoy | the easiest way to give and make money onlineWhat a great idea: you set up a small fund (say $5) and give small tips (one guy askedfor just $0.10 and had amased $246) to people who provide services or information that you like.

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MagicJack far from enchanting - The Boston GlobeActually, the review is much better than the headline would suggest. My major problem with this is that I don't make that many long-distance calls and so I wouldn't save that much money. But, if I were willing to let go of my regular telephone, I could connect this to a spare old computer and eliminate the charge for the phone.

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Here is a very disturbing graph of unemployment that has been published by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House.When I sent this to my friend Richard Homonoff, he replied:You might want to take a look at William J Polley's blog post titled, "Employment losses continue to be in line with 1981-82 recession."He looks at the eleven recessions since WWII.He has a chart that is more comprehensive than

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Don't click on the start button below if you are offended by profanity. If, on the other hand you find the use of profanity at times the last effective means of expressing your outrage or excitement, then click on...

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Charles Kuralt: We listened to Charles Kural's America on the way down to Florida.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kuralt http://www.rememberingcharleskuralt.com/editorial.htm http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/14/lkl.00.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=charles+kuraltAlan Berliner: Early Sunday morning, we saw part of a documentary by Alan Berliner on

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While I wasn't looking, Google has made some major improvements to their spreadsheets. One impressive capability is the ability to generate charts from dynamic data. Here are some examples:Here is a more complex trig function charted:And of course, the ever present pie chart. Google documents appears to be practically all I need from Excel in terms of charts.Of course, the real payoff is when

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Here is an amazing website and several animations I just ran across. It boggles the mind to think how much time must have gone into creating the first 6 minute film.Here is the explanation of the video:Here is the video:MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.Here is another video by BLU:

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Internet marketing essentials: Change order of Blogger PostsThis is a really useful set of instructions to change the order in which blogger entries are listed -- FIFO or LIFO. This is a great example were an open system like Blogger (open in the sense that you can change a lot of things) permits you to make it work better than the implementers were able to make it work. A corollary to the rule

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What have I been doing? Well, I have spent most of my waking hours working on LexMedia the non-profit corporation that runs the Public Access cable channels in Lexington, MA. In the last year we have completely reinvented LexMedia by:Getting rid of the last Executive Director who was on a course of making LexMedia failRecruiting a new Executive Director who brings a lot of talents to LexMedia

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AntennaWebThis is a very nice web site which answers the question that some people will be asking in the coming months: With the switch-over to digital TV next February, if I want to receive television over the air (as opposed via cable or satellite) what kind of antenna should I get and in what direction should I point it. If you click on the "choose an antenna" button, you will be asked for

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Science and technology information from Scientific AmericanI just got an email message from Scientific American asking me survey questions about their website. After completing the survey, I went over to the website and discovered that it was seriously modified and improved from what I had seen before. Very nice, and I recommend it to you.Now the reason for writing this entry: Most Popular

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Unlike PCs, the standard Macintosh software (e.g., iMovie) does not provide a command or document how to import the contents of an even non-copy protected DVD into a program running on the Macintosh. It turns out that you can do with with standard issue Macintosh programs, you just have to know what to do. Here is a set of steps needed to perform this action that I found using Google.Insert DVD.

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On The Media: Prank CallingProfessional hoaxer Alan Abel has spent a lifetime pulling pranks on the media, like his campaign to clothe naked animals or his character Omar the Beggar. Abel’s antics are preserved in the documentary, now on DVD, Abel Raises Cain.

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Photography and The Law: Know Your RightsThere are several issues that arise when I decide whether or not I feel comfortable taking a picture. These issues usually arise when people are included in the scene. This article lays out the legal rules and rights you have as a photographer, but I find that frequently my own sense of respecting someone's privacy takes precedence. But, it is good to

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JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 ™ I have searched for years for a backup system that would work for me. I bet I'm not that unusual in my "requirements" -- these are not particularly difficult ones and some of them relate to my behaviors, which again, I believe are not very unusual (at least with regards to backing up my computer data...)For me, to be useful, a backup

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Petition-them.comThe internet has proven itself to be the most effective way at informing people about issues that matter to them. Once people are informed, they want to act -- and many times the appropriate action is to let another person or organization your support for a position.This website is a free service offered to users of the Internet to collect and organize signatures on a petition.

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A quarter-century of innovation that changed the way government works and how people liveA friend of mine, JF Mergin, wrote a section of this article in which he said:What individual had the biggest impact on your work in the government or the work of government?In the late 1980s a fellow named Harry Forsdick was working at BBN Technologies on early Internet applications. No one really understood

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WardMaps.com - Cambridge, MAThere is a new map store in Harvard Square. For years, there has been a map store on Church St in the Square. I'm not sure if it is still there. Now another.Here is a nice example from Ward Maps of a map around Fresh Pond where BBN was located.

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I find that the .FLV format is the best one to include on web pages. So do most of the Internet video sites. When converting video to .FLV format, there are certain tools that are needed to create usable video productions. Here is a list of the ones that I am currently using.martijndevisser.com FLV PlayerThis is a very clean, standalone .FLV player.GoGo DVD To flash flv ConverterThis is a

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Get great free widgets at Widgetbox!

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Photo Widgets and Slideshows - Good WidgetsClick on the top photo to see another.

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Move over Facebook. Dogster is upon us...#DogsterBadge a:hover{color:#f08624;text-decoration:underline;}

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Virtual CD-RW burner converts DRM protected M4P to MP3, M4B to MP3, M4A to WMAThis is the most reliable tool I have encountered for converting iTunes to mp3s. The authors of this tool have been thinking out of the box about this solution to converting one format to another.

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By AMOL SHARMANovember 14, 2007, WSJCraig McCaw got rich betting on cellphones when they were still brick-size gadgets with just 30 minutes of battery life. These days, he's rolling the dice on another untested concept: a nationwide high-speed wireless network based on WiMax technology.His company, Clearwire Corp., is trying to cobble together a network to give customers fast, affordable Internet

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There are several web-based shared information systems that seem to have achieved enough critical mass and polish that it is time to seriously consider them when setting up a small company or organization. Two that I will talk about in subsequent articles are are GoogleDocs and CentralDesktop.

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Technology Review: New Tricks for Online Photo EditingThis is more than a trick. It appears to me to be a significantly better way to think about reshaping a photograph because it doesn't loose any of the original "message of the photograph". In the illustration to the left, notice that the aspect ratio of the photograph has been changed from landscape to portrait -- without loosing any of the

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This morning I awoke listening to Chicago by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, written by Graham Nash in 1970. Although it has been 37 years since this was written, I am struck by two things: First, the world has changed since 1970 -- some for the good (the populist Internet) and some for the bad (almost everything done by the G. W. Bush administration). And second, I still believe in the

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What Music Has Changed Your Life?Last night while listening to Weekend All Things Considered while driving, I heard a "Reader Assignment" which was to write about a piece of music that has changed your life. The first piece of music that entered my mind was a performance by The Band of Up on Cripple Creek which I heard coming out of the kitchen at an AMC Hut in the White Mountains in New

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It's a Kind of a Family. It's a Kind of Insanity.: This Isn't L.A., It's BostonWith 250 candidates running for president of Red Sox Nation, it is pretty hard to predict who will win -- and so, you really have to vote for a person who captures your heart, mind and imagination trusting your own opinion, not the opinions of pundits or the publicity machine of "big name" candidates. So, I'm backing

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WSJ Video about Last LectureComplete Last Lecture (at end of this article)Randy Pauch's Websitefrom the Wall Street Journal:CMU has a lecture series entitled "Last Lecture Series," in which top professors are asked to think deeply about what matters to them and to give hypothetical final talks. For the audience, the question to be mulled is this: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we

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Saving History: Revolution in BostonBelow is a preview of a documentary developed by our Lexington friend Rick Beyer.If you look closely right after the 50 second mark you can see Marsha (blue) and Rick's daughter Bobbie (red) off to the right. Marsha and Bobbie were extras on Rick's shoot in downtown Boston in August. You may also see Marsha's back in the full program, looking at a display

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Across The UniverseDid you grow up in the '60s? Do you like the Beatles? Have I left anybody out? If you answered no to both questions, skip to your next activity.For the rest of you survivors, make a date to see Across the Universe, Julie Taymore's wonderful fantasy musical weaving of a '60s love story using the songs of the Beatles. This isn't a particularly complex story -- sort of like

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CedarSeedI was looking around the web today (that sort of like saying I was looking around the world today) and ran across this beautiful web site by an Lebanese artist / designer that I find delightful. Poke around and you will see some wonderful little pieces of art, craft, and design.

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LibraryThing | Catalog your books onlineThere is a fine line between hoarding and collecting. Collecting at least gives you an excuse / explanation.This is a website devoted to lists of books -- as well as interrelationships between books. In addition it seems to have a large collection of discussion lists about books.Perhaps you have detected a trend with my pleasure with lists? It's true, I

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From: Harry Forsdick Date: Sep 3, 2007 1:46 PMSubject: Quechup: Avoid it like the plagueTo: Friends Friends,Yesterday, I signed up for a social networking group called Quechup. Due to some ambiguous wording on the website's part, I thought that they would just be checking my address book to see if people on it were already members of Quechup. But noooo, they just went ahead and spammed my

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I frequently get asked what software should I install on my PC. I also frequently set up machines for people. In either case, here is the checklist I use when advising or installing software on a new PC. I never save copies of free software, rather opting for downloading the latest copy at the time of installation. There are no URLs in this list, but if you search Google for the names in

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NYTimes Art Review: To See the World in Ballpoint PenSan Jose Museum of Art - IL LEE: BALLPOINT ABSTRACTIONSBeing a doodler, I had to check out this review and website that told something about this exhibit. I was also fascinated by the video below that showed how Il Lee did these drawings.

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My friend, Lexington resident Rick Beyer, has just told me about a very interesting project he is working on: A documentary film about the Ghost Army: a unit that used all sorts of tricks and artistic talents to create the impression that the Allied forces were operating in much different ways than was actually the truth. More on that later.I am a firm believer in supporting artists and writers

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MeosphereLists: you either love them or hate them. I have to admit that I have a fascination with them. At times I am a little defensive about this because they reduce understanding of a subject to a rather syntactic recitation of facts rather than deep insight. But, checking off what you have done is an objective way to measure progress.Read Walt Mossberg's All Things Digital comments.Check

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Wealthiest Americans Ever... Interactive Feature: The Money RaceHere are two great examples about how to present information using the interactive capabilities of the Internet. The display of the Wealthiest Americans Ever... is great for two reasons: First, it is always important to understand modern "facts" in the context of history. This puts Bill Gates, Warren Buffet's and Sam

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Coonamessett FarmWe went out to dinner at Coonamessett Farm near Falmouth, MA. It was wonderful. Here's the deal: CF is a working farm growing veggies and fruit on the Cape. Among other things, the farm is one of those cooperative farms where families can buy a share of the output of the farm for a fixed price per year. In addition, CF offers produce to non-members at normal farm-stand

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One of the funnier programs on TV (for me) is the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Normally I wouldn't see it, but because I have a TiVo I can record the program and watch it later. Craig is Scottish and brings all of the humor of Scotland combined with the zaniness of Hollywood to the show.It is one of those shows (like Letterman) where you have to watch it a while to get the in jokes.

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The Hyannis SoundWe went to a wonderful concert last night and I want to share this with you and hope that you get to see them this Summer on Cape Cod. The group is The Hyannis Sound, an a cappella singing group. They perform regularly 4 nights a week at 4 different locations (Falmouth, Hyannis, Chatham and Brewster) Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, through the middle of August (see

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Adobe - LightroomEvery once in a while I have come across a piece of software that just does the right thing with a clear interface. Intuit's Quicken is one such example. Adobe Lightroom is a new example of such an application.If you are just getting started in digital photography, or if you haven't noticed many differences between how you take pictures in the digital world from the film world,

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Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seenGapMinder.OrgFrom TED.Org:Hans RoslingEven the most worldly and well-traveled among us will have their perspectives shifted by Hans Rosling. A professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world, which (he points out) is no

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TED: Ideas worth spreadingMy friend Joe Walters reminded me about the TED conference, and the wonderful videos of talks given at the conference that are available on the web. From the web site:"TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual

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River Idyll GeoCacheCharles DeGaulle Travel BugSeveral years ago, I bought a Garmin eTrex Vista GPS device and started playing with it. Soon I learned about the whole world of GeoCaching: essentially playing hide and go seek where the clues are a combination of latitude/longitude coordinates and some additional hints if needed. It is a sport in the sense that it gets you out hiking to find a

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TiVo Swivel SearchBackgroundPeople have continually predicted that TiVo was toast as the Cable Companies began to bring out inexpensive DVRs. The theory was that although TiVo was a pioneer, like many pioneers they would be overtaken by the second wave of companies that were more nimble and cost conscious than TiVo, who would become complacent and slow to innovate a second time.I have to admit

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This is a great list of annoying interactions that go on between clients and web designers. Even in my limited experience, I have experienced almost all of them. In our enthusiasm and can-do attitude, I am afraid that part of the problem is that web designers/implementers have created this impression of the web. The only solution is to be willing to decline to get involved when you suspect

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Music Lifts Me Up. Recently when our local State Representative held a night of favorite protest songs, I was unjustly disappointed that more of my favorites weren't played. This was clearly his show. I should get my own of I want my stuff played.So, I am about to launch a series of entries in my blog discussing and playing my own favorites. The title of the series: Music Lifts Me Up. To see

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Today's recollection is a folk singer named Fred Neil. I have no idea where I first heard Fred Neil, but his rich, deep voice, his wide variety of musical styles featuring slow ballads through loud upbeat songs accompanied by his 12-string guitar has left a lasting audio impression on me. Recently I tracked down a number of recordings that brought back great memories. I present them for your

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Saturday night we met Alex and Kathy in Newburyport to hear The Roches. For those of you not familiar with this group, let me try to characterize them: Bell-like high voice (Terre), clear middle range voice (Suzzy) and deep low voice (Maggie) singing in the close harmony that only people who have sung together for a long time can accomplish. Combine with that a sense of values influenced by

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Here is a very funny video from Saturday Night Live: funny because Walken's answers to the census taker's questions are answers a little off topic...

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YouTube - Time Lapse Video of Guy Driving Across the CountryI am about to start learning about time lapse photography. It turns out that while it used to take a lot of special purpose expensive equipment to do this, today with digital cameras and computers it is relatively easy. Now you can focus on technique rather than equipment.

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My mother used to work for the New York Times. Every once in a while, she used to bring home a newsletter published by Theodore Bernstein, managing editor of The New York Times, entitled Winners and Sinners containing examples of good writing and headlines, as well as mistakes that made it into the paper. This is an example of the type of item that would be labeled a Winner:Headline in the New

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ColorJackColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)I love color! Here is a very interesting web site devoted to understanding color. The Sphere is a very interesting web application which can help you create sets of complementary colors.

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GeoURL (2.0)Tell the world about your web site in terms of where you are located. Beautiful map showing registered web sites:

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I receive several excellent free digital photography newsletters:PhotojojoDigital Photography SchoolThey not only cover traditional photography techniques but also talk about unique things that you can do with digital photography as well as interesting things you can do with your pictures.

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There are more and more examples of applications that are using cellphones for input and output and web apps and email as the engine. Here are two WSJ articles describing two kinds of cellphone based apps:Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration - WSJ.com This one is about marrying cell phone txt messaging to web micro blogsMaking Voice Mail More Like Email - WSJ.com This one is about marrying

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Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As DatabaseMy number one interest has always been reuse of existing programs in new uses. This interest is based on my love of programming -- which, after all, is continual reuse of various snippets of patterns for doing things strung together with the connective tissue of the programming language. When I managed the development of the PINPaper (Personal Internet

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Visited CountriesNice, simple site that helps you generate a map of the countries in the world which you have visited. Here's mine:There is a companion site for US states, Visited States. Here's mine:

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Refugees Find Hostility and Hope on Soccer Field - New York TimesThis is a beautiful article about a team, a coach and a mother. The team is composed of refugee/immigrant boys who are bound together by their love of soccer. The coach is a tough Jordanian woman coach who teaches her team that complacency and indifference do not belong on the soccer field. The mother, Beatrice Ziaty, is a

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Deep South 2007 Marsha and I are leaving on January 22 for an 8 week trip to the Deep South -- through Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. We'd love for you to follow along on our trip at Deep South 2007.

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Open HouseTonight Marsha, Will and I attended Jay Kaufman's Open House -- a once a month meeting he holds addressing different topics of interest to his constituents. This month the topic was The Music of Politics, the Politics of Music. The guest was Lexington resident Marilyn Beyer host of WUBM folk radio.Although I enjoyed the meeting, somehow I left wanting something different. I thought

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Remember the World Almanac? I used to love leafing through its pages at the various articles. One type that I've always loved are timelines: history, science -- events of all types. Well it still exists as a printed book, doing as well as it ever did, I guess. But, unfortunately they haven't figured out how to put their material online and make money off it. So, I resort to Wikipedia.I

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Stranger Than Fiction

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There is great confusion about focal lengths of lenses on digital cameras. The numbers quotes in specs for digital cameras are difficult to relate to the 35mm film camera world because if you rely on the strict measurements of focal length, then you have to take into consideration the dimensions of the digital sensor which varies from camera to camera and is almost always different than the

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Here is a time lapse video of how Picasso painted a picture found by my frequent source, Richard Homonoff. I find it fascinating how Picasso really changed things as time goes on. Clearly the canvas is where he did his thinking.

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MunichWe rented Munich from NetFlix and enjoyed it. Again, like the Sleeper Cell series on ShowTime, this film shows the mistakes, messy botched operations that must go on all of the time in covert operations.This is the story of what happened after the 1972 Munich Olympic Terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic Team. There were 11 terrorists identified by the Mosad who had a primary role in

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Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software GuideThis is a very useful blog where the author gives little recipes for doing things on / for / using your computer and the Internet. This is is Tips & Tricks or How do you do ... type of site. Here is an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal article about Lifehacker and Ms. Trapani:Gina Trapani is always looking for a clever shortcut -- from a better

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Sleeper CellAs those of you who know me, I am a big fan of espionage stories -- but since the fall of the Soviet Union and 9/11, there has been quite a shift in stories of that genre. I can find occasional TV series like MI-5 and I know about, but have never watched the popular Alias TV series and its excuse for looking at Jennifer Garner...Recently, I started viewing Sleeper Cell on ShowTime

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DexterThis was the first series I committed to watching on ShowTime. It turns out that ShowTime (owned by CBS) is a pretty good cable channel.When I describe this to people, they must wonder about me... Dexter is a serial killer who works for the Miami Police CSI Unit. The series tells the story in three time periods -- when Dexter was a young boy, when he was a teenager and now, when he is in

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We Are MarshallI am not ashamed to say I had to wipe away the tears during this emotional, moving film. It was, in fact, a reaffirmation to me that I still had empathy for people in pain and grief. After all of the outrageous language and accusations that have gone on in the last 6 years, I sometimes wondered if the outrage had made me uncaring for others. Glad to say my sensitivity is still

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Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell: Amazing Tap DancingI was going to title this first entry for the new year as "In Defense of TV", but I realized that it wasn't television that I wanted to praise, but rather the reproduction of real events by the use of video and sound.Frequently people cast aspersions on the amount of TV we Americans watch -- and probably justifiably so. But this video shows

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Yesterday, I wrote about Jumpcut. This morning, I tried to see how easy it is to create and publish one of these videos on my own web site. Here is the results of about 15 minutes of work in my pajamas this morning...Of course the real time is taken in one of these apps when you go to improve it slightly: you can triple the time if you go for perfection...

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Jumpcut - Make Amazing Movies OnlineA while back, I wrote the following message to friends: Hello Television Networks...? The gist of that article is that soon we will have the tools to pull together clips from all sorts of sources into compilations which approximate shows.Well, it took about 1.5 months for me to come across several tools that are headed in that direction. Jumpcut is a tool

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Digital Picture FramesThe web site above is a very nice survey article about digital picture frames.For quite some time, we have had a iMac in our kitchen which we use for both a computer, but also as a digital picture frame. By using the excellent Macintosh screen saver, we get a wonderful slide slow which runs when we are not using the computer. I point the screen saver at the pictures I have

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PHP: Hypertext PreprocessorJavaScriptFor the past 10 years, I have concentrated my programming activities in JavaScript, a scripting language in which programs run inside a client browser. Since I have been focusing primarily on what the user sees on the web, this has served me well. But there were always limitations.Recently, I have gotten interested in Wikis, which is a particular style of

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Worth100There are lots of examples of photographs that have been hacked to put the head of one person on the body of another. Usually you can tell.Worth100 is a web site dedicated to professional artists who can do wonders with photoshop. Today I received several images, shown below that are both comical but also a testimony what you can do in this area.

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VistaPrintFor several years (maybe 5-7) I have used a web-based service for printing business cards. VistaPrint offers a fully automated authoring, management and ordering web site where you can produce beautiful cards. They have a rather aggressive sales strategy where they offer "free" business cards -- followed by an active "upselling" experience. In any case, they are pretty good and I

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Technology Review: Hyperlinking Reality via Phones"Nokia researchers are working on a system that allows physical objects to be identified and connected to the Internet through mobile-phone screens."A Nokia research project could one day make it easier to navigate the real world by superimposing virtual information on an image of your surroundings. The new software, called Mobile Augmented

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Geonames reverse address geocodingWhat is that? You know about typing an address and having Google Maps show you where the address is? Well, the reverse of that is looking at a Google Map and having a program tell you the street address. This Google Maps mashup allows you to navigate around a map and when you have found the place you want, click on the map and it will tell you the street

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From: Harry Forsdick Date: Oct 27, 2006 3:55 AMSubject: Hello, traditional TV Networks...?To: Friends I ran across something yesterday on CNet that I think is very appealing and answers the questions many people are asking about Video on the Web, such as "I don't understand the appeal of 2-3 minute snippets of video. Who is going to watch that stuff?"Well, check out:http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_

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Hoarding and ClutterFor the past week or so, I have been unable to work on two projects which I need to get done in order to move on. I have trouble understanding why I am doing this.This reminds me of another problem issue I have: hanging on to things that I might need someday which is usually called hoarding. This association caused me to remember a wonderful radio program I heard (and saved,

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The Boston HarborwalkThis is something new to me. It is a walking tour of the Boston waterfront. It isn't complete yet, but it is a great idea. It goes from Deer Island in the North to the Kennedy Library in the south. There is a downloadable Audio Guide of the central Boston part of the walk. The website identifies all of the sites along this route. Clearly a multi-day activity (as in it

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I received this as part of a message this morning:3 bedroom House for Rent- Belmont, MA We are taking a year-long sabbatical from summer '07 through summer '08 and would like to rent our house to a wonderful family or couple. 8 rooms: 3 br, 2 1/2 baths; kid-quiet, friendly neighborhood; excellent school district, close to playgrounds, library, 1 mile from Belmont Center. For further

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For a long time I have wanted to purchase a small camera I could have with me all of the time. I used to own a Canon S100, one of the first such cameras. This week, I purchased, for the same price, a Canon SD800 IS -- which is smaller, has a longer zoom, wider wide angle, image stabilization, and 7Mpixels.It is a beautiful camera with lots of automatic features as well as the ability to control

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A couple of interesting articles:Powerset: The search engine that would outdo GoogleHello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search FriendWhy Search Sucks & You Won't Fix It The Way You ThinkIt's always fun to try to spot the next winner. This article is an advanced peak at a company claiming to be able to put more language understanding into searching. This of course is a better way of

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Yesterday was a glorious day for the Town of Lexington, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States of America!As I said the day after the Primary election, and I will say again, it is wonderful this morning to finally be able to feel good about the government officials who were chosen to lead our state and country.Deval Patrick's victory was indeed, as Sen. Kennedy said, "a shot

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TravelBrains - Travel adventures that leave you smarter!We have enjoyed a variety of audio tours you can play in your car as you travel through an area. When we went to Gettsyburg, we purchased one of the best tours that even today our boys refer to fondly -- mostly because of the enthusiastic narrator, Wayne Motts.Sources for tours of this type are listed above.

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Flood Maps:What will happen if the impact of Global Warming is as dire as some predict. In particular, there are some that say that the impact of global warming will be that the massive Greenland ice shelf will melt. If this were to happen, sea levels around the world would rise -- how much? Perhaps 7 meters, 14 meters, 28 meters: depending on the severity of the impact, these are all numbers

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Printing Dogmas Graf Photography - Digital Imaging articlesMany purists say that you need an image at 300 dpi in order to print photo quality images. This guy shows that this is not necessarily true: he is shown holding a 20x30 inch print of a tiger that was printed from a 3 MPixel jpeg image.

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