The above photo says it all. It was freezing the last two days. Lots of snow got dumped yesterday and then again last night. Pia and I walked the dogs in the snow this morning. Very, very pretty. But things are melting fast and I suspect that our road will be a disaster the next few days …
If you’re still looking for the perfect christmas present for the perfect person, head on over to DNA 11 and take a look at the personalized DNA art pieces.
A sample of your (or somebody else’s) DNA is transformed into a giclee-print showing your unique pattern. Quite interesting, however the prices seem to be a bit over-board.
In brief, 11/24/2006 - that was plain freaky. Yesterday evening around 5pm I went to a Thanksgiving party. I drove from Tesuque on 84/285 towards downtown. As I was coming down the hill into Santa Fe, I noticed quite a number of Police cars and fire-trucks under the overpass where the highway turns into Guadalupe Street (right about here (Google Maps)). It looked like something had gone over the divider. Looks like the police report above confirmed that. What a freak accident …
Weekend Meteor Shower for New England - washingtonpost.com - 11:45pm EST makes it 9:45pm MST. Think I’m going up on the roof tonight. My friends the camera and tripod are coming with me …
Pia and I will be travelling to Germany over Christmas. Can’t wait to get some good ole Bavarian dishes while we are over there. In order to increase our cholesterol level to the minimum acceptable level, we decided to start some intestine lubrication while we are still in the US.
We started the painful process with a pork roast yesterday evening. This hunk of meat was in the oven for about two hours. Before it went in there I cut up some garlic, used a knife to make small pockets in the meat and filled those pockets with the garlic. While it was in the oven I drizzled beer over the meat to prevent it from becoming too dry. It was really yummy and I’m happy that Pia ate like there was no tomorrow.
Still have to decide what lubrication dish we prepare tonight …
PS: After using “intestine lubrication” above, I wanted to see if it was used anywhere else on the web. Searching with Google, I found one other hit out there for some chinese food company. Wonder if I should trademark the term ?!?!
Always wanted to do this and finally tried it yesterday evening. I put the video camera on a tripod, pointed it in direction west at about 5pm and started rolling. I left the camera alone for an hour while it was filiming the setting sun. At 6pm I brought the camera inside and download 10GB worth of data from the last hour. I compressed it down to a 1 min 30 secs AVI file (still 300MB in size). Next the video was converted to FLV (the Flash video file format) and scaled down to 480×360 pixles with the audio removed. The resulting file was 4.2MB. Finally I wrapped all this into a Flex application using Flex 2.0’s dead-simple mx:VideoDisplay class. The progressbar tells you how much data you’ve fetched from my server already. The whole video runs for 1 min 30 secs.
So, here it is. Close the blinds, move closer to the screen and it’s almost like you’re here. If only we had a more exciting sunset yesterday evening …
I love you, late fall/early winter!
You make me feel warm enough when I take the dogs on a walk during the day, but you also bring the chill to my bones to remind me that the end of the year is near. You should see me standing out there at 5:00am in the morning to let the dogs out - freezing my a$$ off (20 degrees and shorts are NOT a combination I would recommend to anyone). What’s best about it is the moment I go back into the warm house and either go back to bed for a lil’ while or brew a pot of fresh coffee and enjoy the first cup over some regular browsing in the morning. Bliss! Simple things that make me happy!
Not what you think!
It was a virtual delivery room. For the last few months my colleagues in San Jose, San Francisco and I have been working on a new web hosted service called “Adobe Document Center”. Yesterday evening we threw all the big switches and brought the service online for the general public. You can find the press release for the new service here. And that link will also describe the service’s functionality and purpose.
In general the “Adobe Document Center” is the control panel for documents that have been protected via the Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server. One can protect documents from within Acrobat, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and even via an extension from within Microsoft Outlook when sending a new email message. Each document has a policy associated with it which defines what recipients can or cannot do with it.
An example: say you have a contract with some confidential information in it and you need to send it to your business partners in electronic format. You want to make sure that the document can only be opened by a handful of people. You also want to make sure that the document “expires” after a time limit you define. To make sure there are no printed copies being shared, you also want to disallow printing of the document. Using these parameters, you can craft a policy that defines all those restrictions. From inside Acrobat (or Microsoft Word), you would apply the new policy and send the resulting document to your business partners.
Once the document is in circulation you use the Adobe Document Center to track the file and/or make modifications to the policy associated with the document. If you discover the minute you sent out the document that you forgot something, you can also revoke access to the document at any time, which means that recipients won’t be able to open the document any longer.
Here are some screenshots to give you an idea:
The main screen displays all your Policy Server protected documents on the left. The right hand side contains a pod for your recipients and the built-in and user-created policies:
The document details screen shows information regarding the current document:
The policy details screen explains all the details about the policy used for this document:
If you have tracking enabled, you can get a histogram with all the different events associated with your document (how often was the document opened, how often did somebody print the document, etc.):
And the same tracking information in table format with more details for each event:
If the above does not look like a traditional web application to you, it is probably because it has been written entirely in Adobe Flex 2. So when you hit the Document Center the first time, you download a Flash file that implements the whole user interface. Behind the scenes we are using Flex Data Services to connect to our java-based server via Remote Objects. Works like a charm!
… now that I’ve refilled the empty wood rack outside. All the fire places have also been filled and are just waiting for some cold nights. If you are on the North side of Santa Fe (Tesuque, La Tierra, etc.), give Armando at (505) 351-4848 in Chimayo a call. Nice guy, nice wood and prompt service.
Last Sunday we had yet another open house. We had to disappear for a few hours. On our way to the Santa Fe Childrens Museum, we saw all this fresh snow up on the mountains. I asked the lil one: “Childrens Museum or Playing in the snow?”. A minute later we were on our way up to the Sangres.
It was not as much snow as it appeared to be, but it was still enough for a mini-snowball-fight and some delicious snow cones ….
Crappy shot from camera built into phone below.
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