Picasa's "I'm Feeling Lucky"

This is the picture before I used "I'm Feeling Lucky" in Google's Picasa software. I used a flash but I was too far away for it to do any good.

This is the picture after. I'm pretty impressed that anything showed up at all.

Start.com

I had said before that Microsoft needed some serious innovation to earn back the minds and hearts of all the web aficionados out there. As with any large company there comes all the bureaucracy that hinders real innovative thinking. Microsoft has taken a step toward real innovation by allowing a few developers to do whatever they wanted. The result - Start.com. RSS feeds, bookmarks or favorites, news, weather, movies, stocks, etc. These elements are that first cup of coffee of the day for anybody starting their browser. Start.com offers all of these items and they are only in beta - there's more to come. Try out version 3 of Start.com here - http://www.start.com/myw3b

Google Moon

Google has set up http://moon.google.com/ "in honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969". Also, with Google's amazing imagery power, they're able to show you exactly what the moon is made of if you zoom all the way in.

More digital camera testing

Continuing my digital camera testing, I've decided to try customizing the aperture and shutter speeds. In doing so I tried writing "Web Dude" with a flashlight. Yes it looks a little like Web Ducle but shut-up, you have no idea how hard that is. Out of 30 takes that was the best one. I could have done better with a smaller flashlight. The settings for this was 3.4 aperture and a 16" shutter speed (whatever that means).

4th of July

This is my favorite pic from the few I took on the 4th.