12.01.2008Video - Bruce Lee Playing PingPong With Nunchucks

Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks.  No it’s not real, amazing use of CG though.

11.22.2008Photo - Fredom Trail Statue

This statue was nestled amongst one of the churches on Boston’s “Freedom Trail” walking tour.  If in Boston, the Freedom Trail is worth the afternoon needed to walk it, but wear comfortable shoes.

11.21.2008Photo - Tadich Grill

Tadich Grill in San Francisco.  The food is good and worth the trip if downtown.  It’s a bit pricey, but the chance to soak in SF culture in such an old school establishment made it worth it.

11.21.2008I’m Back

I’m not sure in what form, how often, or what content will be, but I’ve left this space unused for way too long due to both a lack of ideas and time.

I’m back, watch for it…

08.27.2008Samurize

In the past few weeks, I had been looking for a system to keep track of my to-dos at work.  I wanted a system that would leave something open on the Vista sidebar or better yet, the desktop.  I tinkered with using a text file, Remember The Milk, and other methods.  Then I came across Samurize.

Samurize is a desktop monitoring tool that is 100% free.  The best part about it is that a regular text file can be accessed with the system and displayed on the desktop with it’s display attributes modified.  So I have a text file in my documents folder called to do that is updated on the desktop every time I make a change and save the file.  Sweet.  It’s also handy for building information widgets that display system information (like drive space and utilization), screensavers, and XML output streams.

I have a decidedly low tech file running on my desktop that is text only, but it serves it’s purpose as it provides date/day/time info, disk and CPU info, and a listing of my to do list.

08.14.20083D Photo Viewer

I’m not a huge fan of many things that Microsoft pursues, but I was amazed after seeing the video demo of the 3d photo viewer produced by a collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research.  I Started Something has a great summary of the project full of linky goodness and the YouTube demo video.

As someone in the comments mentions, this tech hooked up with flickr or other public photo sites would be jawdropping.

(via slashdot)

08.14.2008Amazon Universal Wish List

Amazon’s Wish List has always been a place where people could track their lusted items.  Given Amazon’s ever growing collection of offered items, the lists could encompass many different types of desired goodies.  That functionality is now even better with Amazon’s release of a browser button that allows the addition of items from any site to an Amazon Wish List.  This makes the Amazon-based wish lists the closest thing to an interweb-based universal wish list.

Amazon details how to add the button to your browser of choice and it couldn’t be easier.  A stroke of genius from Amazon.

Why offer such functionality?  Amazon can look at what people want, where they want to get it from, and how much of it they want.  Given the convenience offered by the universal wish lists, many people (including me) will feed Amazon’s market research willingly.