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Midterm tonight!

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The only thing I don’t like about school is exams in classes that are a bit more complicated. My exam earlier this week in Information Systems was simple. I breezed through it. I love the material. I know the material. I live the material. On the other hand, Corporate Finance is a bit tougher. I’ve done all the homework, and Michelle’s helped me grasp the concepts quite a bit. They are confusing though, but I’m gonna give it my best!

Ars Technica has a new look!

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My favorite site, Ars Technica, has a more professional look. They have made it much more streamlined, less ads, at least it seems, and they’ve done some really cool things with stylesheets, allowing people to change the overall look back to the black background. You can also increase or decrease the text size, and also widen or narrow the reading area.

Very impressive!

My brother's Big Fat Geek Wedding!

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My friend at work, Mike, made a funny. After I was telling him how cool the photographer’s technology, as well as the DJ’s technology was, he said, “Your brother had a Big Fat Geek Wedding.” He actually said, “My Geek Wedding”. I knew what he meant, even if he didn’t!

Anyway, Frank has a Nikon D100 Digital SLR camera. It takes 6.1MP pictures, has tons of space for batteries with the additional battery holder it had on the bottom, and, of course, it takes all the normal Nikon lenses. He was explaining to me that in the time it shoots out one flash, the camera can take 3-4 pictures! The newer camera, the D2X, he said, takes 6-8 photos, and is 12.4MP. Now THAT would require TONS of storage. Frank had a 1GB card he was using. Said it got about 280 shots, with the settings he was using. If he was using RAW or TIFF mode, he’d get 100 or less. Anyway, during the night, Frank would unload his photos onto his Mac Powerbook, correct the orientation of the photos (rotate if needed), and run his laptop with a slideshow of the evening’s photos. We did the same thing on my PC with my pictures + his pictures. It was great, having two 15" LCD screens (on the laptops) running through the night’s festivities, in real time, practically! Talk about instant gratification!

Frank’s camera!

Frank’s Powerbook. Click to enlarge.

The DJ was another digital marvel. Instead of hauling around crates and crates of CDs, the DJ had his equipment: amps, mixing table, speakers, etc. However, the actual DJing part was accomplished with his Dell laptop, running PCDJ software. His music library, which was searchable, was held in an external hard drive.

PCDJ Red. Click to enlarge.

All in all, the wedding was awesome, the technology was awesome, and most importanly, Dino and Danielle are happy, and on their way to Hawaii!

My brother got married yesterday!!!

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It’s official!!! Dino was married yesterday, to his beautiful bride, Danielle!

The day started off cold and rainy, but the clouds broke, the sun shined, and the weather was about as cooperative as it could be for an October evening!

We had a wonderful time, and Dino said it: “This is the happiest day of my life!”

I know, this is shameless, but I think Michelle was absolutely BEAUTIFUL yesterday. Even MORE beautiful than she normally is!

Photo Album of the Wedding Day <– there are LOTS of photos. Of the 764 photos that I have, personally (mine and the photographer’s (PhotoFrank’s)), I only put up about 351 of them, which is LESS than half. I know, my brother and I have problems with this media stuff. But we have our OWN server. We pretty much have LIMITLESS space!!!