Still Learning...

... this google-sphere web way of "living" that I've decided to take on.  As you may have noticed by now - I'm posting from a new blog.  It is one of the *.blogspot.com addresses (blogger) that google owns.  I'm also making more use of (or attempting to / learning) my picasa web albums that also comes with ones google account.  They (google) offer up a ton of neat and useful toys all for the really nice price of ...  ta da .. basically free.

From Weekend Shooter

Turkey Day / Computer Re-Build

 As mentioned in a previous post regarding how surprised I was (am) at how well windows 8.1 actually seems to be, I did go ahead and pull the trigger and re-build the machine. I started around 8:00pm last night (Wed, 27 Nov) and am more or less finalizing the rebuild of it now.  I obviously began the evening looking over / through both of the drives that live inside of the machine and pushing anything that I felt may be of some value to me to an external for backup.  I then popped in my pair of backup drives for my photo's and libraries and ran the backup for those too.

When "bombs" are good . . .

... I know I'm old and nerdy, and not entirely on top of pop culture but when I saw a link just now re: some celebrity "photobombing" a wedding shoot in NYC I figured I'd follow the link to see what the prima-donna attention whore did. Turns out "photobombing" is a "good" thing?? Apparently it means that - well - I dunno . . .  I guess that because "Joe Actor" wound up in a photo that it became "the bomb!"? ( scratching my old bald head.... lol! ) I read "bomb" in anything and take that to be, generally, a bad thing. Bombs blow things up. But I guess "bombing" in this instance is good because the photo went "viral" in internet speak and kabillions of folks saw it.

Well huh!  Whatddyaknow...   :)

( I wouldn't have had a clue who that guy was had I been editing the photo and may very well have cloned him out of it... lol! )

Hard to believe that I'm actually saying this but ...

I'm actually thinking about installing this thing on my workstation machine at home.  Yeah -- I find it hard to believe but ...  I kinda like it.  It's not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be - principally because it does allow you to use a more win 7 like desktop as opposed to that damned tiles interface.

Readers digest:  The company that I work for has an enterprise class license for Microsoft products.  I work in the I.T. department and as such am able to "play" with new stuff on test / guinea pig machines.  I installed it on this laptop that I'm using right now a day or two ago and as I learn my way around it, I find that I'm actually somewhat surprised at how well it seems to be performing so far.  I'm gonna give it a week or so of use at work and see what the verdict is . . .   but so far I have to say that I am genuinely surprised at how well it is running.  I've installed a number of applications and utilities on it and have yet to come across anything that I haven't been able to get to run.

We'll see how it goes...