Testing Windows Vista Pre-RC1 on Virtual PC

I noticed a post on Paul Thurrott’s Internet Nexus blog this afternoon about Microsoft making Vista build 5536 publicly available. I’m not sure why they did it, but I was happy to learn that I’d be able to test a more recent and less buggy version of Vista, so I downloaded it right away. Using [...]

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Frustration with Autodesk University Registration

After spending more time with the AU registration website and helping others from my office use it, I’m feeling a little embarrassed about my comments from the other day. Although I really liked being able to build my schedule so easily, I’m getting really frustrated with the login problems the site seems to be [...]

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Healing Field @ Temple Square, Busy Week for SLC

With the American Legion Convention here in town this week, there’s currently a Healing Field setup on Temple Square with hundreds of flags. I went down yesterday during lunch and took a photo or two.
Looks like Utah may be in the news a lot this week, what with the arrest of Warren Jeffs, [...]

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Registering for Autodesk University

I just finished registering for my classes at Autodesk University. Looks like it’s going to be a busy week. I’ve signed up for a total of 14 courses, and will be learning about stuff ranging from BIM (Building Information Modelling) to website development with DWF drawings, to programming AutoCAD with .NET. I [...]

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Troubles in Northern Ireland

A Windows Live Local collection posted yesterday to the location sharing website, PassThePoi, really caught my attention. “History of Northern Ireland’s Troubles” identifies the locations of several key events in the history of that country and included extra information, photos and links about them all. It’s a fascinating way to learn things, and [...]

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Testing Windows Live Writer

The new Windows Live Writer tool that Microsoft released this weekend looks promising. I read about it this evening on Mike Torres’ blog and decided to download it and give it a try – in fact I’m using it now to write this post. So far I’m really liking it and will probably [...]

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Amazing HDR Photography

While browsing through Flickr’s “interestingness” pages this evening, enjoying all the amazing photography featured in there, I came upon a term that I hadn’t ever seen before: HDR. All the really amazing sunset photos, for example, were tagged with it, so naturally I was curious.
With a little help from Wikipedia, I learned that HDR [...]

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Autodesk University

I’ve been getting emails and reading various comments on blogs about the upcoming Autodesk University (AU), to be held this year at the Venetian resort in Las Vegas from November 28th to December 1st. Apparently early-bird registration opened this week, and course offerings and schedules have recently been made available on their website. [...]

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Another New Blog

Here’s yet another WordPress blog – I’ve set it up thinking that I’d like to start blogging again.  I have ideas for posts on a variety of different topics such as web programming, databases, interesting ways my church is using the web, CAD and other design tools, and so forth.  I like the features that [...]

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