This morning at around 8:15am the old Wachovia Building on 615 Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia USA was imploded using controlled demolition techniques. This was filmed from North Avenue just east of Piedmont Road. Check it out!
Often, Big Companies Suck when compared to Smaller Ones
I have a new employee starting on Friday and needed a new computer. Generally I like to buy from Dell because they keep all system info online for future retrieval. So yesterday (Monday, June 21st, 2004) I went online to Dell’s Outlet and selected a pre-built system and requested it to be shipped Fedex Saver …
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Off to Microsoft TechEd San Diego 2004
Well, I’m off tomorrow morning to San Diego for Microsoft TechEd San Diego May 2004 tomorrow to meet with some vendors and partners, and to say hello to old friends and new. San Diego is one of my favorite cities in the world, so I’m sure I’ll have a great time just being there. However, I …
FREE VB.NET 2003 Standard Edition
Paul Vick posted about VB @ The Movies. Check it out as Microsoft is giving away a free not-for-resale copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition to anyone in the USA or Canada who views and rates five of their movies. This is very, very cool. Pass it on to anyone you’d like to get started …
Video Interview about the “My” Classes
As I just posted, I was inspired by Channel 9‘s video interviews so decided to get a digital camcorder to film interviews with our vendors about their products for posting on Xtras.Net. However, when I get the opportunity I’ll interview anyone related to the .NET development and post those interviews on my blog. Case in point, …
Inspired by Channel9
Back at the beginning of last month Microsoft launched Channel 9, and I was completely inspired by their video interviews. Being a “database“ guy, I’ve never really gotten excited about things like graphics, imaging, charting, etc. and that included video. That was until I saw Channel9 and thought “Wow, these videos are really cool! We …
D-I-Y Steadycam
I noticed Richard S. Tallent, II referenced a do-it-yourself steadcam project by Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Melon University, which was ironic for me as I went looking at digital camcorders today. At first I thought Johnny was making a joke, but after reading the page it looks real (great video clips shown using it.) Maybe …