Snow Day!! Finally!

 

Tuesday Febuary 23, 2010

Today we had a snow day!  The first we have had in years.  It was awesome!

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Excellent FREE Utility!

Ninite.com must be the coolest web site utility program i have ever seen!  Look at the screen capture posted below for just a sample of the supported programs.

The purpose of this utility is to do an un-tended install of all the apps you use all at once.  I saw this in action on a friends computer, and I will absolutely be running it on my own machine when it is time for a reinstall of windows.

Apparently, you can select the programs you want, download the installer, and keep it for future use.   Of course, given the frequency of changes in web apps it probably is a good idea to go to http://ninite.com/ each time and get the most up to date version.

 

Ninite.com is the best find I have seen in a long time!    YAY!!!   Free,Excellent software!!!

Microsoft Misses the Target……

   Microsoft seems to be on a roll this past year.  Windows 7 seems to be off to the races, the Zune HD is all that it was promised to be.  Office 2010 preliminary findings look good.  And Windows Live is shaping up to be an excellent suite of services.

     However, there is one huge glaring hole in the Windows Live for Mobile lineup.  THERE IS NO CALENDAR SUPPORT!   WHY?

I realize that these things take some time to develop, but this has been missing for the whole two years or so that Windows Live email support has functioned for me.  Isn’t it plainly logical that the next step after getting email to sync / push to a mobile device is that the calendar should too?  I thought that Windows Mobile was generally viewed as the Mobile OS for business types, right behind the ubiquitous crackberry.

     There is the possibility that I have completely missed something, but I have been searching for two years to get this working.  I Have a nice desktop client with full calendar support, I can sync events between my and my wife’s live calendars, and I get email notices on the smartphone’s email client of upcoming events.  The only thing that is missing is the ability to establish a new event from the smartphone interface.  This is one of the purposes of carrying the device in my pocket.    I have seen workarounds that involve Outlook, and Google Sync, and jumping though a dozen hoops to make it sort of work.   That is not the point.  Windows mobile 6.5 should support Windows Live Services.  This is just common sense. 

Somebody please find a way to get the point across to the decision makers on the Windows Live team.

     Or leave a comment that points me to what I have missed….

Busy times

all month, and not a single post…..

how boring my life is right now.  

 

I did attempt to rotisserie a goose.

the resulting fire melted the electric motor on the rotisserie attachment on my grill, and reduced the bird to charcoal.

I refused to take pictures of it.

Sunset over Waikiki

How could I not post this picture………..

Friday at the International Convention

Its been a hectic three days….  Walking our feet off, meeting people from all over the world, standing in line for buses,  standing in line for buses………

 

There are simply too many pics of people we met to put up here.  The best of them will be on Flickr in a week or so…  In the mean time, look at this picture of our hotel.   notice a speck on a balcony a few floors from the top?  That is Manami standing on our balcony!

The first full day in Hawaii

   It has been a long day……   But a good one.

This is the View from our window at sunrise.   That is Diamond Head Crater, the short side of it anyway.

    We met some friends down at the breakfast on the third floor.  And then we went walking.   And walking.   And walking…..

 

First we went to Waikiki Beach, about 5 minutes from our hotel.  No time for swimming today, so we just walked in the sand, and looked at all the weird people.  There is an interesting breakwater protecting the beach, while still allowing fish and surfers to get in and out.    Near the other end of Waikiki Beach, is the “International Marketplace”.   This is a great big tourist trap, and we got suckered into buying some nifty junk for our poor unfortunate family and friends..      Then back to the hotel to drop off junk, and we saw this……..

This  Rainbow image is unedited, straight out of Manami’s Camera!!!!

Then off to lunch, at a Japanese place where they serve raw meat, and each table has a small gas grill built into it on which you cook your dinner.  Its kind of expensive, but SOOOOOOO worth it.

And, Manami got me my favorite Melon Soda Float!!!!!    yiiipeeee!!

 

Thats all for today, We are so tired it’s not funny.

Hawaii Arrival

Now on the ground in Honolulu!  We were met by a noisy bunch, and herded to the hotel.  I think this is the nicest place I have ever stayed.  Mariott - Waikiki Beach.  We are on the 29th floor, with a view of the mountains and the coast.  I hope to get some good pics from up here……

  

International Convention: Day 0.5

We have arrived at DFW airport.  20 brothers / sisters here and more coming in every little while.  It sounds kinda like a chicken house in here, there is so much chattering .

So far, we have people from New York, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio, Conneticut, and MIssouri. 

Randomly Good Picture

Sorting through pictures today, and found this one.  I had forgotten about this picture, so here it is.

Lady in Red……