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More photos from Africa
Air Originally uploaded by ckindel . I'm now about 1/3 of the way through organizing and filtering the over 4000 photos we took in Africa. I still haven't geo tagged any, but I appreicate the pointers I have gotten from people on good tools to use. Click...
Back from Africa
Day 1 - Arusha to Serena 162 Originally uploaded by ckindel . We're finally back from our amazing trip to East Africa. I thought I'd be able to jack in during our lay over at the Amsterdam airport and start to catch up on mail and start organizing photos...
Posted: Feb 25 2007, 11:04 PM by charlie | with no comments
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A great runthrough of Windows Home Server setup
Terry over at We Got Served posted a nice run through of what the setup for Windows Home Server beta 2 is like. He took pictures along the way and if you are curious to see what it looks like before you get your beta kit take a gander. We Got Served Note...
He bit him!
I have not watched the 3rd and 4th hours of 24 that were on last night. Just didn't have the time. But I did watch the first two hours on Sunday nght. All day yesterday the vampire scene kept popping into my head. Each time I burst out laughing. He bit...
Posted: Jan 16 2007, 07:57 PM by charlie | with no comments
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King5 BillG Interview/Story
Dennis Bounds of King5 News (Seattle) interviewed BillG in the CES booth over the week. I posted a still I took during the interview on Monday. I finally got a chance to watch the interview ( it is posted on the King5 website ). We loaded the demo home...
A great quote
Someone just forwarded me the following quote. This really resonates with me. I have been working on trying to get a home server product built at Microsoft for over 8 years... "At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then...
Alec Saunders taught me craps
Heh, heh. I just noticed Alec Saunder's post linking back here . I am not a big gambler and I really only get to Las Vegas once a year...for CES, but my gambling history is deeply rooted in an amazing experience I had in 1999 or 2000 (I don't remember...
Tigger has lost his voice
A long time ago I was known exclusively as Tigger . Few call me that anymore, and while it wasn’t my choice to be called Tigger, I always loved the character and felt he was a fair representation of my personality. Most of my family and close friends...
Posted: Jun 28 2005, 12:43 AM by charlie | with no comments
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The Bomb In My Garden
It is a small world and I always get a kick out of discovering connections between seemingly unrelated people and events. A few weeks ago I received a mailing from my high-school alma-mater, The Webb Schools of California , that was the typical “send...
Sigh. Ski season is over.
I had planned on this being an epic ski season. I hurt my back in the fall (burst disk S1–L5, bulge in L4–L5) and thankfully avoided surgery. I vowed to get my core in shape so I’d have a great ski season. I busted my butt at the Pro...
Posted: Mar 29 2005, 06:30 AM by charlie | with 2 comment(s)
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My flickr.com photos
Given all the photos we took in Alaska last week (488 between Kevin & I) I decided to actually try out a few of the latest online photo sites. I tried both smugmug.com and flickr.com . Besides allowing you to store your photos online, these sites...
Back from Heli-Skiing
What a great trip. We went with www.valdezheliskiguides.com . There were some technical difficulties (we were grounded for 3 days due to an “incident” having to do with a rotor blade striking a sign), but in the end I got a ton of amazing...
Posted: Mar 21 2005, 09:29 AM by charlie | with no comments
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Heli-Skiing
I’m currently near Valdez Alaska, heli-skiing in the Chugach mountain range. All I can say is Wow. Two pictures to illustrate. My buddy Kevin took both of these.
Posted: Mar 15 2005, 06:15 AM by charlie | with 2 comment(s)
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I want my 'Road kill'
An MSNBC article says animal lovers are all up in arms over this stuff. I think it’s just about the funniest thing I’ve seen recently and I want some! "It sends the wrong message to children, that it's OK to harm animals. And that's the wrong...
Posted: Feb 25 2005, 06:26 PM by charlie | with 3 comment(s)
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Cobalt 190 Bowrider For Sale
I've put up a " Kindel Things For Sale " page for big items we are trying to sell. I've already posted about our Floating Pontoon Dock and now we are also in the market for a new boat so our 1999 Cobalt 190 bowrider with a 5.0L V8 motor is for sale. It...
Posted: Jan 30 2005, 08:19 PM by charlie | with 6 comment(s)
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