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I met my wife and son who were at the beach playground. When my toddler saw me, he got excited and ran around in circles, then bolting off in the direction of a dirt path that led to a gas yard.

A toddle can’t run that fast so I followed him and as he was running, giggling down the path, 3 mosquitos attach themselves to his back. Aaah!

I quickly put my right forearm between his legs and used my left arm to hold his shoulder, hoisting him up and running out of that area.

My son is laughing hysterically as I am running, carrying him back to the playground and my wife sees us running towards he. She doesn’t know what going on but she sees the swam of mosquitos behind me as I get closer to her. She watches them trail me as I pass her.

They didn’t care for my son so much when I put him down next to the slide, but they got a wiff of me and they wanted blood!

“You know, only females suck blood.”

Great! Bloodthirsty females with wings chasing me around a playground

admin Funny, Not-so-funny beach, mosquitos, Playground

I just removed the Google AdSense content from my website and it feels good. Kind of like a guilty good

I support capitalism. I love capitalism! And making money is a good thing, but sometimes it’s too much.

I like some of the commercials and I click on the ones that appeal to me, but when there is a dancing girl or a woman who looks surprised in a video window, distracting you from reading the article on the page, I just get annoyed and click on my Adblock+ button.

I like you Armstrong, but that stare is creeping me out

There’s a lot of good stuff on the Internet, but there is also some creepy stuff out there

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I have had too much fun the past couple of nights.

Friday I was out late, watching the Mets beat the Florida Marlins in Citifield

Saturday night, I watched 3 movies: “The Happening”, which I liked, “10,000 BC”, which really sucked and since I couldn’t end the night on a bad movie experience, I watched “Hitman” to recuperate.

Today, working off of 5 hours of sleep, I took my son and wife out to different local festivals, armed with my Nikon D90. The funny thing about the camera is that I don’t have a fancy lens on this unit, but MAN, does this lens take great shots.

I’m working with the Nikon DX 55-200 VR lens and I cannot believe the quality of the pictures you get out of such a cheap buy. I bought this lens because of Ken Rockwell. I have to admit I was skeptical about buying this thing, being all plastic and all, but I haven’t seen a bad shot yet. Not chromatic aberration or anything.

Well anyway, I walked around with this setup and being that I was too sleepy to think, I mainly used the preset modes and was pleasantly surprised to see how good all of the shots came out. I didn’t have to do any editing either!

If you want to see some of those pictures, check out my flickr photostream

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When you guys want to send each other a long URL, make it tiny!

Go to http://tinyurl.com/ and enter the long URL there and *POP*, out comes the tiny url that you can use instead!

So, http://on-my-desk.blogspot.com/2007/02/jennifer-shiman.html turns into http://tinyurl.com/5fk9jv

Another friendly advice message from the smartest guy on the block

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I’m surprised what people find interesting on my website.

The most popular post is actually the Haversine formula page.

Thinking about it, that whole process was a real pain in the butt to implement, so I can see that if someone else had to do it, that I could actually save them some time and grief.

Your welcome. There you have it. Your welcome and I am glad that I could help!

admin What's New C++, Haversine, Popular Post

I had a PowerBook that was showing it’s age. I didn’t feel like buying new computer so I actually bought a Mac mini on the recommendation of one of my co-workers.

Setting up the machine is typical Mac: plug in and go. The migration assistant made transferring everything over to my new computer way too easy.

Of course, there is a hitch: I used my AFP server to hold my TimeMachine sparseimage and that does not work on my new machine. I don’t feel like mucking with it now and I’m sure that getting the backup to work with my new computer will take time and effort that I am not willing to put in.

Anyway, I’m happy I got a new machine to work with.

admin What's New Apple, Mac mini, TimeMachine

I set up this blog site for programming.

I set up this site so that I could share with other programmers some of the problems I have had and how I overcame them.

I set up this site, so that I could share with other developers who had similar problems as I did.

I didn’t set up this site to share my personal ideas, my daily to-dos or anything else.

As time went on though, the very items I tried to keep off this site made it here.

Twitter, Facebook, Flickr. They’re here. I didn’t understand them at first, but I enjoy them and they’re here.

Now Obama is here… he and politics have made their way to my website.

I have to say, Obama’s use of the internet as been quite impressive. The White House portal, his use of Twitter on the campaign trail and now, Flickr!!!.

I won’t lie. I don’t agree with his ideas, his policies or his plans, but I do agree that the use of the internet to make American’s more connected with the government is a great idea.

It seems for quite some time now people don’t want to know what’s going on in the government unless it’s controversial.

I don’t agree with that, and Obama is doing the right thing by making the U.S. government more visible. More tangible. Less frightening.

The U.S. is filled with good people and we tend to forget that too.

Let’s not forget who we are and that we all neighbors.

admin What's New Apple, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter

Apple doesn’t go out of their way when they have a batch of computers that have problems, unless of course those computers blow up and cause bodily damage.

The problem I’m talking about is the PowerBook G4 lower memory bank dying (apple.com).

Apparently, there was a whole lot of laptops that had this problem, but Apple only supported customers if their problem surfaced before July 2008.

Nice. Nice going Apple.

admin Not-so-funny Apple, lower memory bank, PowerBook G4

You know, I want to go to WWDC, but I couldn’t justify the trip. I had to many things going on at that point in time. The more time went on, the more I thought about going.

The track I was really interested in was OpenCL.

Honestly, I didn’t think it would sell out. But now, it has. I guess Apple is going okay.

admin What's New Apple, WWDC

“With AT&T as the mandatory carrier, owning an iPhone is like dating a supermodel with cancer” (wired.com)

I think that about sums it up!

admin Funny, Not-so-funny ATT, iPhone, Sucks