Watch this seven plus minute video and prepare to be amazed at what an application called Photosynth can do. It’s architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, demonstrates and describes the technology and what lies ahead. (Link courtesy of Michael K. Bergman of AI3.) It’s so amazing, I almost want to begin exercising just [...]
If you’ve been a reader of this blog for any time at all, you’ll have seen me mention my friend Paul Moor, whom I have known now since the early 1990s, almost 15 years.
We met, originally, on a Writers conference, back before the World Wide Web even existed, during a time when we used Bulletin [...]
I virtually never take a vacation, last year’s cruise to Alaska with Carole being a spectacularly notable exception, but I do take virtual vacations. For instance, I am participating in two vacations, vicariously and virtually this Memorial Day weekend, with my son Mike and his extended family at Ft. Walton Beach, FL, and with [...]
I went to the doctor to have my eyes examined on Monday the twenty-first. It had been two years since I had had an exam and it was time, if for no other reason than to check for glaucoma. As it turns out, my “dress” glasses, meaning the ones I wear everyday when [...]
I spent much of yesterday trying to help my son Mike free up some space on his laptop. He has an old HP Omnibook XE3 that only has a 20 GB hard disk and suffers from a defective DVD drive so that he can’t use it to burn CDs. Hence, he doesn’t have any means [...]
I described the problem I experienced in finding a place to upload a large AVI file in this post the other day. This morning I’ve discovered another alternative.
My web hosting company, Dreamhost, has a converter that you can use to convert an AVI file to an FLV file which can then be [...]
Saturday, February 24, 2007
This morning I visited with my friend Tucker Childers at the hospital where he had to go this past Thursday because he had pneumonia. While there, I shot a video message from him to share with some of his concerned friends online. Using my Canon Powershot S2 IS, I shot 57 seconds in [...]
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
This post will probably be temporary because I am making it only to test whether I can activate the lightbox component of this template. If successful, clicking on the graphic below should use the lightbox javascript to display an enlarged version of the image “above” the post with the web page still in the [...]
Saturday, January 27, 2007
I discovered this site this morning and played around with it a bit. I found it rather fascinating and thought I’d show you the results of uploading my photo and having the site search of celebrity matches for it. It appears that I might have been able to serve as a stand in [...]
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Originally uploaded by Dr Reelgood.
This is one of a number of outstanding pictures Mike got during his recent trip to the Grand Canyon. I particularly like this one, when viewed in a larger resolution (which you can do on his [...]