I’ve been thinking - I really need a theme to my blog. The problem with something like myname.com is that all I can write about is my day-to-day life. Which is interesting enough living it, it’s not an interesting thing to describe. Hence, how are you? what did you do today? tend to be dull questions. It’s more interesting to tell a story or describe a thought, than just blurt life. And, a theme like the Pedia-Digest brings that out as opposed to rob’s log.
Anywho - photos
So, we went biking again today. But, this time it was straight up, I got probably 10% of the distance we we’re planning, JT and I we’re spent (I was near nausia).
Very humbled. Eat before biking - will do.
So, I’m kinda good, kinda lousy at Poker. I can always seem to reach to the final few, but then I rather quickly fall apart.
In the group it can be a bit easier to read what people are trying to do and how they are reacting to the card turns. There’s more time as the bet moves around to build a bet, scare, bet strangely. But, when it gets down the few, the bets get big, and you can’t make small moves, it’s harder to fold a hand. But, that’s really the fun I suppose
So I bought a mountain bike the other day, and we went out to go riding. Mountain bikes are a bit more expensive than I anticipated, but I’ve been wanting start for a few weeks now. It felt good, I haven’t physically exerted myself for anything
fun in quite some time. Stressful things seem less improtant as you try to get your way up a hill after your breath is spent, or go down a nice steep downhill, without braking or hitting some rock the wrong way. It’s also a great way to finally start doing some excersize. I’m going again next weekend.
New site template, still needs some minor adjustments.
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Ciao for now.
So, Rob - the IT Proffessional, finds himself running a mirriad of Beta software, Office 2k7, IE7, and even Opera 9 my favorite of these is still technically a beta.
Office is very pretty, at it’s nice being able to make dramatic document changes simply by waving my wrist - but, it’s slow. All the hovering magic - and everything has a hovering effect. Seems to not be speedy - though it is smooth and pretty
Opera I love. It is quite fast, especially at opening and closing - and that’s with it remembering the last 14 tabs I had open - not to mention it stores back/forward history for each tab. And, if you are not all the way converted to tabs - opera will help you with that all new windows are redirected to tabs - and things that simply must pop up are in little pop-ups - that have no true nav, and are linked to the main opera window. Very managable.
IE7… it’s better than IE6. Tabbed browsing, cleaner interface, better css implentation (still not perfect), and a few minor annoying bugs.
I suppose the real neat thing is that MS is attempting to kill the ‘File’ Menu Interface it standardised - exchanging it for prettier neccessary button commands and large icons. As a tablet user, an even as a mouse user - it’s far time major app vendors think about how much resolution we actually have and how much faster it is to click on a big button than a 5px x 5px one - wink to you adobe.
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A start is better than no start