Africa is big.

Finally, a dual purpose GPS

Garmin Dakota 20 GPS

Big Fish

Nice fish

From 21" Largemouth Bass

Tomato Pie

Ingredients

• 4 tomatoes, peeled and sliced
• 10 fresh basil leaves, chopped
• 1/2 cup chopped green onion
• 1 (9-inch) prebaked deep dish pie shell
• 1 cup grated mozzarella
• 1 cup grated cheddar
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• Salt and pepper

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Place the tomatoes in a colander in the sink in 1 layer. Sprinkle with salt and allow to drain for 10 minutes.

Layer the tomato slices, basil, and onion in pie shell. Season with salt and pepper. Combine the grated cheeses and mayonnaise together. Spread mixture on top of the tomatoes and bake for 30 minutes or until lightly browned.

To serve, cut into slices and serve warm.

Just Jeff's Hammock Camping Information

Everything you would ever want to know about hammock camping.

How to Fillet a Bass

The goodness that is CF 9 and CFBuilder

• Builder is interesting, not sure it will replace DreamWeaver?
• ORM, yea!
• EXT JS 3, haven't played with it yet, but it looks good.

Awesome.

Browser Comparison Chart, Get the Facts

This is the official page where MS compares IE8 to other browsers. It would be a great piece on The Onion. Somebody is going to get demoted for this one.

My Rankings :

• Chrome wins: Security, Ease of Use, Privacy, Reliability, and Performance
• Firefox wins: Developer Tools and my own special category of Interoperability (try running IE8 on linux).
• IE8 wins: Nothing really. IE8 is a big improvement for MS but it doesn't stand out in any area. I'm happy that they have finally started to adhere to standards instead of inventing their own and that they threw in some developer tools. I actually use IE8 on a daily basis and it's o.k. But it won't keep people from switching to Chrome or Firefox.

Here is another opinion...

Hauppauge 950

So I bought the Haupauge 950. The Elgato is basically the same thing. This works great on the macbook and the setup was dead simple. The PC struggles and the software doesn't seem to work as well.

Mac Mini HD Media Center

Found this recipe in the Mac Forums. This is combo for a Mac Mini Media Center reportedly works well.

• 1.83 GHz Mac Mini (Intel Core Duo, 512 MB RAM, 80GB HDD, SuperDrive, Mac OS 10.4, AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0, Apple Remote, Power Supply, Install/Restore DVDs, Printed & Electronic Documentation)
• AcomData Mini Pal External Harddisk Drive (HDD) (7200 RPM, same footprint and design as the Mac Mini)
• Elgato EyeTV 250 Plus ATSC/NTSC/QAM Tuner and Video Converter (with EyeTV 2 Software) OR the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid. The difference being the 250 has video compression built in. I'll go with the EyeTV Hybrid since I already have stand alone video compression.
  
• Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard,Apple Wireless Bluetooth Mighty Mouse, (maybe the iPod Touch as remote?)
  
• 6' DVI to HDMI cable
• 6' Optical cable (with mini optical adapter that you'll need to get optical out of the Mac Mini) - for enjoying 5.1 Dolby Digital
• Remote Buddy software (makes your apple remote incredibly more useful)
• DisplayConfigX software (helps you get the output resolution of the mini perfectly calibrated for your HDTV)

Some of the reviews for the Elegato 250 are a little scary and I'm curious about the Silicon Dust HomeRun.

Query of Queries doesn't support DELETE

I love queries in Coldfusion.   Today I wanted to remove some rows from a Query so I just did a QoQ with a DELETE statement.   Doc's clearly state don't support DELETE.  

It took me a second, but the answer is simple,  don't DELETE the records you don't want,  SELECT the records you want back into the same query.

As a side note,  I was working with CFLDAP and Active Directory.   I was working on a test to make sure I don't lock out accounts if people are fat fingering or somebody is doing some sort of brut attack.    I discovered Active Directory has a field that reports the number of failed logins since the last successful login.

Ubuntu 9.04 Rocks 10 year old machine.

I had loaded Ubuntu 6 or something on this machine years ago but some memory went bad.   I picked up some cheap memory the other day, loaded 9.04 and it works great.   Detected my old Nvidia card.   Detected a 2wire USB wireless connection.

Just make sure you have all your hardware plugged in and powered up when you do the installation.

Microsoft Anti-Google Whisper Campaign

I was aware that MS astroturfed,  now MS whispers?

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-an-anti-google-whisper-campaign-looks-like-2009- 6

Microsoft Win 7 Message

I came across an interesting venn diagram a couple of times and it looks like the source is here: http://uxevangelist.blogspot.com/2009/05/windows-7-more-of-new-7.html

While microsoft may not always deliver the WOW, their marketing is often top notch.  

MS message strategy for Win 7 appears to be the following:
It Works  -> It's easy -> (Does What)  I Want  ->  That's Cool.

That is a great recipe. 

Jungle Jim's

If you go to north Cincinnati and have an hour or so to spend,  go to Jungle Jim's.   It is sort of a cross between Disneyland and Giant Eagle (or Piggly Wiggly if you're from the South).     The finest restroom in America is at Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio.

Something just change

Today at work we needed a threaded discussion in a hurry.   I loaded up Galleon Forums and gave a demo within an hour.   Management loved the price (free) and away we went.

This may not sound earth shattering,  but we could have done this years ago.   So to me, this indicates a big change in our management's thinking.