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The Man. The Myth - Erik Hatcher!

First preso was on TINI - embedded Java - VERY cool! http://www.ibutton.com/tini

At the meeting - I can already tell I'll probably delete half of these...

Dinner.

Mophoto-ing begins!

I'm off on my first MoPhoto Adventure. Watch this site for pictures as they happen. Hopefully, Erik will make an appearance on this site as the night rolls on. ;-)

Multiple Monitors? Get this software!

I haven't used Synergy, but Chris seems to like it. It sure sounds cool.

With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of only one of the computers while you use all of the monitors on all of the computers. You tell synergy how many screens you have and their positions relative to one another. Synergy then detects when the mouse moves off the edge of a screen and jumps it instantly to the neighboring screen. The keyboard works normally on each screen; input goes to whichever screen has the cursor.

I highly recommend setting up dual monitors if you are a developer. I did it this summer after purchasing a 19" Dell Trinitron for $150 from eBay. If you're buying off eBay, make sure you know exactly what monitor you're getting. The first one I bought was a 21" Sony that sucked. Luckily, I was able to re-sell it fairly easily. Now, I actually believe that my two 19" Trinitrons might be better than the 23" Cinema Display I long for.

The Ride to Work

It's supposed to be a beautiful week in Denver. This means that it's time to dust off the ol' Sugar Momma (Gary Fisher Sugar 3) and start my annual riding to work phase. I didn't get a chance to do it last year b/c I was working from home, and it was a little tough to motivate myself to ride a loop every morning. This year, I've got quite a challenge ahead of me. It's probably about an hour and a half ride to work, and approximately 20 miles. After a month or longer, I should be able to get that down to about an hour or 1:15.

The first year I did this was 2000 and I rode 55 out of the 60 possible days I could've ridden to work. That year, my ride was about an hour, and I got it down to 35-40 minutes by the end of the summer. Then again, it was only about 10 miles. There's really nothing like it - getting to work after watching the sun rise and working your ass off. I can't friggen wait - come on Spring - I'm ready!!

Russell: Here's your hookup

The Butt Ugly Weblog (Scaring little kids since 2003) has offered Russ some love. Since I like Russ, here's your hookup baby!

Russell Beattie wants to be #1 Russell.

Since he's a good guy and posts and discovers an insane amount of interesting stuff, I've gotta help him :-). Google, here you go!

To Janne Jalkanen: I dig the name of your blog, I LOL'ed when I first read the title. Also, you're Finnish, so that means you've got to be cool. My Grandparents (last name: Hill) were Finnish and I'm about 35%; the rest being German, Dutch and Irish.

MoPhoto'd

Well, I went ahead and ordered the Communicam from AT&T and it should be hear in 3 days or so. Julie thinks I'm crazy, and she's probably right that the camera sucks, but I want to be a moblogger. I want to post pictures and blog, in real time. My first adventure? I hope to mophoto Erik at the Denver JUG meeting a week from today. That is, if I get the camera and figure it out in time.

RE: Sony Ericsson Communicam

After a bit of research and a couple comments/e-mails, I've found that there's a few different models of Communicams. There's the MCA-25 ($100), the MC-68 ($70) and the MCA-10. What's the diff?