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Originally uploaded by Jillako.

I'm trying out our new Nikon D40. I like how it feels, hopefully I'll get to learn how to take better pictures!
Here's a start.

Boot Camp Plus!

If you know me, you know that I think Apple's Boot Camp is pretty cool. Having a single machine that can do both Windows and Mac OS X is good but there is something additional that can make it the coolest thing since sliced bread!

Ta-duh!



A virtual machine solution - VMWare Fusion. This is VMWare's Mac product that is currently in beta. The biggest advantage for a user such as me is that this product "understands" Boot Camp. No need for a separate Virtual Machine. VMWare Fusion will let you boot your Boot Camp partition from within Mac OS X! Parallels does this too, and many people have good things to say about their product. I haven't tried it though and it costs $80, whereas the VMWare one is currently free, during beta.

Arjun can try this out right now on his iMac since he already has Boot Camp configured. I'm waiting to get my hands on an Intel Mac sometime this year and install Windows Vista on it!!

How CDs are born

Here's an interesting video that shows how CDs are manufactured. Pretty cool to watch. The process is not at all like burning a CD, it is actually much more efficient and the CDs are stamped from a master. Check it out.



Found @ Paul Burd's One Digital Life

It's tax time and it's time to "keep the refund fat"

Intuit has been running a contest at YouTube for a $25000 prize. Here is one of the entries that I liked. Thanks to Mike for sharing the link with us!

Argh, Blogger - I lost some of my heritage today!

As any blogger user knows by now, you have two options when you try to publish your site - "Republish Index" or "Republish Entire Site". For the last four years, I have religiously avoided the "Republish Entire Site" option like the plague.

The reason is this - when you use said option, Blogger takes your latest template and applies it to ALL your pages, stretching back to the start of the universe. Now, in the day when you composed your blog posting, I made sure that the posting fit well within the current template of the day. However, I have no intentions of going back and making sure that my new template fits all my old pages. Further, I believe that having the old pages stay in the same old template preserves my heritage, legacy, whatever you may call it. It is nice to go back to a posting from 2003 and see the page as it looked then!

Anyway, on to today. I changed the template of the site - updated current movie and music on the sidebar. After I applied these changes to the template, I got just one option from blogger - Republish Site or something to the effect. I naively assumed that this must be the equivalent of Republish Index on the Publish page. I was devastated (and totally annoyed!) to find Blogger re-publishing the 400+ pages on my blog!! Arggghhhh!! Blogger!! Why is there no cancel on the publish page? I wish you had an undo!! And I wish I had backups of my site!!! AAAAAArrrgggghhhh!