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Posted on December 09, 2008 in Adobe Audition
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Spoiled for Life
Posted on November 15, 2008 in Corel Photobook
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Whole lota nuthin'
Posted on November 13, 2008 in Corel Designer
I've been a bad blogger...but it's funny how you compose entries in your head while away from the computer. You should see the entries I would write in the shower! If they ever create a waterproof laptop...I would do all my work in there. Mom came down this weekend for the Miss Oshkosh pageant. She's the director for the Miss Marinette pageant. I also volunteer with the program, wearing many hats...mostly in the fall and with the show...I'm producer, script writer, host, performer, stage manager...thank God it's only once a year! Mom and I went to the Titanic artifact exhibit that's in town. It was very impressive! If you ever get a chance to see one of these exhibits...go! As you enter, you are given a boarding pass with the name and information of a traveler on the great ship. I was Miss Edwina "Winnie" Celia Troutt, a 27-year-old woman from Bath, England. She was a second class passenger. I am a history nut so as I walked through the exhibit, I especially paused at the second class items and wondered if Winnie used that particular item. It really made the whole experience real. At the end of the exhibit, you enter a room where you review the passenger list to find out if "you" lived or died when the Titanic sank. I am happy to say that Miss Troutt was indeed a survivor! After I got home I Googled her name and discovered she lived until the ripe age of 100, dying in 1984. My mother was not so fortunate...she had the name of Mrs. Irene Colvin Corbett, a 30-year-old mother of three who was one of 14 second-class women who did not survive. I will probably go again...it was really crowded when I was there and would like to browse more. I did complete another scrapbook page this weekend! I did this one using Gina Miller's sketch from Scrapbook Bytes. She gave two options for a square page, but I put both options together for a two page layout. cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw
I've got the wrong attitude to privacy
Posted on November 01, 2008 in Discreet 3D Studio
Hot weather seems to make my humble laptop's display adaptor even more prone to freezing and it got to the stage yesterday where I needed to use SLeek, a Windows Vista and XP client based on libsecondlife. I was actually very impressed with it, the only obvious issue being limited functionality (it could revolutionise inventory management) and, more immediately, the fact that it transformed my avatar into a harlequin. Not unpleasant (a lot better than being ruthed) but you need to be prepared to reverse the process and I wasn't. I'm note sure how this relates in terms of functionality to the client produced by Katharine Berry but it'll do for me. Of course, if everyone used SLeek all the time, SL would not be the place it is. Being able to chat to and, more importantly, IM people I know is cool though. I probably need to do more development offline as well in the LSLEditor. Pity there isn't an offline version of the LSLWiki. Coming back into SL after one of many crashes, I found an unexpected av in the Studio. The walls and doors were closed so I guess she just tp'd in for a nose (or maybe I'd left a wall open and she'd walked in and closed it; Nanci found an open wall later when she left me the droid). I was civil and we exchanged a few pleasantries before she tp'd out again but I felt that my space had been messed with. On reflection, this was so wrong. When it's not being used for other purposes, the Studio (and the rest of the house) should be open and have something biology-related that interests the casual visitor and that changes on a regular basis. After all, that's how I found out about SL, through investigating Genome and similar sites. In the unlikely event that it gets really popular, it could be franchised to SN. This sounds like a good use for the RezzBox or something similar. How about a History of Microbiology exhibition (with simulated labs belonging to luminaries such as Koch and Fleming) that changes decade hourly or simulated environments that can be explored to see the microflora or a fake shop showing the importance of microbes in the food industry. Maybe even using the Studio as a base for geocaching-type SLQuests? Will griefing become more of a problem? I find that just ignoring griefers works reasonably well. Making some of the functionality conditional on completing a survey should also deter a little. As forecast, I didn't make either meeting yesterday. I was too late for the UK meeting and too early for the ISTE social. Still, I met another early arrival at ISTE who spoke positively about the Blogger's Cafe (on one of the EduIslands?) so when I met Pippy Ballinger later on Education UK and he suggested we go there, I readily agreed. I had some lag issues by this time that made access via the stairs difficult (next time I'm going to fly). The cafe was otherwise empty but we had a nice chat on the roof. Momentary flutter when I saw that the Educator's Coop is offering large parcels for rent at heavily subsidised prices ($80 per year). The prim count is less than half what I have on EduNation, however, and I'm happy to swap prims for area at this time. The idea of being in with a group of experienced and aspirational SLers has its attractions, of course, but I am not short of ideas, albeit that some will doubtless fail. Good luck to the Coop anyway.
Tags: time, functionality, sl, wall, studio
Will Detroit Have To Raise Prices? (NYSE:GM) (NYSE:F)
Posted on October 18, 2008 in Autodesk 3ds Max
Monday, March 06, 2006 In the current issue of Newsweek, Allan Sloan, on of the most astute business writers around, makes the case that the problem that GM has in its competition with Toyota is not just one of cost. It also results from not being able to charge as much for a GM car as a Toyota. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11569587/site/newsweek/ That's pretty tough math. Sloan's numbers for legacy costs of pensions and healthcare may not be exactly right, but based on other estimates from financial institutions, let's say the deficit is over $2,000 in Toyota's favor. That's a very big gap for every car. And, Sloan's more important point is that GM gets, on average, $1,500 less than Toyota per car sold in the U.S. This makes the problem Detroit has more than twice as tough. The UAW has not walked into any of the car companies and offered to cut the pension and healthcare costs enough to solve the cost problem. Getting parity with Toyota on that side could be a long and very hard fight. And, it leads to a strange conclusion. If you loss money on most of the cars you sell, why not raise prices? The obvious answer is that sales will drop. It is an answer both obvious, and, most likely, true. However, perhaps that is the only way the Detroit car companies get "right sized" to use consulting jargon. There is no reason to believe that overall cars sales are going to rise rapidly in the next few years. The economy is pretty good now. In addition, a lot of car reviewers and consumers think Detroit's cars are pretty good products. To some extent, these issues go hand-in-hand with the omnipresent specter of a Chapter 11 filing by one of the big Detroit car companies. If you want to see if you can survive, price your products at a level where you can make money. Frightening, but perhaps the only real answer to the Rubik's Cube puzzle of whether GM and Ford can ever operate as profitable, standalone businesses again.
Back To Jakarta
Posted on September 30, 2008 in Corel Painter
After a morning of shopping at a clothes store (not my favorite thing to do), we got to the airport at 2:00 sharp to check-in for our flight. We got to the desk, and the agent told us our flight had been canceled. Welcome back to Indonesia, right? We had to wait until 8:00 at night....ok, decision time. Do we go back into town and do something, or do we just hang out at the airport for six hours? We decided to wait it out. At least the Singapore airport is a nice place to hang out....there are actually lots of things to do at the airport, and if there is an airport in the world to be stuck in, Singapore Airport would be my choice. So, we hung out, ate, walked around, watched people, watched TV, ate some more, hung out some more, and finally boarded the plane at 9:00....the flight was delayed....of course....we are talking about Garuda. So much for the organization of Singapore...it's back to Indonesian chaos.
La Feista
Posted on September 26, 2008 in Adobe Encore DVD
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