I stumbled upon this write up / documentary of a group of guys that decided to trek through the Southern mountains of Alaska. Their thread post-like layout of a story gives small details and unbelievable photos of the adventure. This is probably one of the best things I’ve read or seen on the internet in a while. It would be pretty amazing to attempt something like this, let alone pull it off the way they did.
The long awaited arrival of WordPress 3.0 is finally here. Our very own Vast Reality is already up and running this latest version of WordPress, which was officially made available today to the general public, and at first glance, I can say that I am heavily impressed. There are quite a few UI updates that make the dashboard feel lighter and much quicker. I’m excited to dig deeper into the release to see what other hidden gems it has. If you don’t have time today to play around on the new dashboard, take a few minutes and watch the WordPress 3.0 Video Tour below, or you can head over to the official WordPress.org blog for the full details.
Hope you enjoy the new and improved functionality as much as I do
This is a gallery of the photos I was able to take during a few day light hours I was fortunate enough to have over my business trip to Dublin, Ireland. More explanation surrounding the trip and the specific sites in the pictures is still to come. Overview of pictures includes:
The Temple Bar
Irish Museum Of Modern Art
Hilton Hotel Kilmainham
Kilmainham Goal Museum
Dublin Castle
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Christ Church Cathedral
Guinness Storehouse
Click on the individual thumbnails for a direct link to that photo page, then click on the image itself for a larger view.
So my design finger was itching this afternoon so I sat down for a few hours and compiled a new background for the theme that we were using to give the site an updated personality. I’d like to get everyone’s opinions on it so just comment on this post and I’ll make the modifications as I have time.
I do plan on slowly tweaking the rest of the aspects on the site (ie: font type, font size, colors, logos, footer, etc…). Right now I’d like to just concentrate on the background.
Background not dark enough – I have modified this to be darker, please let me know what you think of the new color and if it makes the text on the first post any easier to read.
Ok, seriously… I’ve heard some kick ass things about solid state drives and their speeds, but these guys did something unthinkable. They built a RAID of 24 256 GB SSD Hard Drives. The link has a video that goes through the build of the computer and what it can do.
High level:
Open all Microsoft applications in .5 seconds (Yes, that’s 1/2 of a second)
Open 53 base start menu Windows applications in 18 seconds
Defrag the entire machine in 3 seconds
Transfer data over 2 GB per second
Recycle 700 files totaling 5.6 GB in the blink of an eye
Copy a 700 MB DVD rip from one location to another faster than the DVD can drop from a 2 story window (. 8 seconds)
I was recently in San Francisco for business and was able to get away for a while to go site seeing. Unfortunately, the day we went, it rained literally all day long, and to make matters worse, my camera finally died on me. These are what I was able to capture.
If this is any type of preview for what tech toys will be like in the future, I think ourselves and generations to come will be just fine when it comes to alternative learning tools.
Pretty amazing stuff, pay careful attention to the last example he performs
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