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E-Type Jaguar Originally uploaded by smenzel An old co-worker of mine, Sandro Menzel, has been doing an amazing job capturing fine automobiles and then doing really great digital touchup. Check out his Flickr collection here: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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In 1997 I had "Stongard", a clear 3M film applied to the lower 12" of the hood and other leading edges of my 1988 Porsche 911 Carrera to protect the paint. After 11 years the film started to yellow and corners were coming up...
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Every few months I make a renewed effort to do the "social networking" thing. I download the latest tools, poke around, post status updates, read other people's stuff, and basically try to "live it". I've been pretty...
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When I left my Amazon Kindle on the airplane after I arrived from Taipei last week I realized that someone finding it would have no way of knowing it was mine. Fortunately Northwest Airlines knew I was sitting in seat 5B and let me know it was in the...
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Wow, has it really been since December that I last blogged? I guess I've been busy... Those of you paying attention (not that I actually believe there are very many of you) will probably understand what I've been so busy with. It's probably...
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Back before the invention of the printing press my great, great, great grandfather came to the United States from Bavaria. His name was August Kindl. At Ellis Island the immigration officials added the 'e'...hence my family's name. We pronounce...
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This was my first Kindle book. That's right Charlie Kindel bought a Kindle. I have to say it's getting annoying having everyone saying my name... Here's my quick review of Halting State by Charles Stross ... The big idea is an interesting...
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Today, instead of being the GM for Windows Home Server, I was simply a user... For the last two weeks my wife has been giving me the gears because the voicemail attachements from Vonage refused to play in Outlook on her computer. It was one of those weird...
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Somewhere Henk de Koning unearthed a video of me taken 10 years ago yesterday touting The Component Object model . Back then I was "the COM guy" and I had hair. Egads. " Don blogged about a video of Gudge explaining COM. This reminded...
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In 1987 I was an intern at IBM Federal Systems Division in Manassas, VA. I was working on testing the software for the AN/BQQ-5D bow-mounted spherical array sonar system for the SSN 688 Class (Los Angeles) fast attack nuclear submarines. This was shortly...
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Late last year I "discovered" Karl Schroeder when I read Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga . Recently he released the 2nd book of this series titled Queen of Candesce: Book Two of Virga and I finished it this weekend. Like the first book I thoroughly...
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Via my regular browsing of blog searches for Windows Home Server related stuff I came across this poor guy's extremely sad story of data loss. http://adams-allegory.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-lost-everything.html First connection: He should have had...
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Johnny Mnemonic, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Burning Chrome. All phenomenal stories. Some of my favorite reads. The Difference Engine & Pattern Recognition: I never finished them. They just didn't resonate with me. But I still will buy anything William...
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I like to like things somewhat off the beaten path. But when asked what my favorite movie of all time is, like almost everyone else I know who has even a smidgen of taste, I say " Blade Runner ". No need for me to wax poetic about how great...
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09-22-02 107.jpg Originally uploaded by ckindel I just updated my Windows Home Server with Ed Halloway's PhotoSync Beta 2 . This Add-in for Windows Home Server automatically ensures that all photos stored in a particular folder on your home server...
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