I feel sorry for the US postal worker who has to hike up the hill to this house… in Salzburg Austria.
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Category: Idle
It took a day-and-a-half to upload all of them, so that should probably warn you off… there are a ton (583 to be exact). I’m not really sure you want to go looking at them, it may suck your will to live. Yep, I said it, I don’t think you can take this many pictures (but SmugMug sure can… I now have uploaded over twelve thousand images and am closing in on 22 gigabytes… not bad for a couple of Jacksons per year).
I’ll post some of my favorite things shortly… but I’m waiting for Paula to make her massive post detailing the whole trip. She has it all typed up, she just needs to spell check it. C’mon Paula, now that I’ve outed you, you have to post!
You may proceed if:
a) You want to prove I’ve underestimated you by plowing through half a grand of pictures with no descriptions
b) Salzburg is your home town and you just want to see 574 crappy pictures with a few good ones mixed in
c) You’re a tweaker
For the rest of you, I present a random picture from the gallery:
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Back from a great vacation
Yeah, I fell silent there… but for good cause: Paula and I were in Salzburg, Austria for Paula’s Birthday. It was a fantastic vacation and we now have over 600 pictures to filter and geotag. Salzburg is a beautiful city and there’s much to tell… but we didn’t get home last night until 1am and after a day at work I’m bushed and heading to bead. I will, however, leave you with the view which welcomed us to Salzburg.
A picture-perfect start to a great trip.
I couldn’t believe it wasn’t just photoshopped when I first hit this page… but there are videos down at the bottom of the page that show it open and running. Impressive.
For more pictures and to watch the videos go to benheck.com.
Fans of the BBC show “Top Gear” will be concerned. Everyone else will say “who’s that?”
I’m part of the first group.
Hammond, the handsome, genial counter-point to Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear crashed while trying to break the UK land speed record for the TV show. Teased for his lack of stature, white teeth and teen-girl magazine pin-up looks, Hammond is a key part of the show staff balancing out Clarkson’s searing tongue and May’s posh leanings. I hope he fully recovers… not just because I’m human but because it could be the source of no end of hilarity on the show (plus, the other option sucks).
Top Gear’s Hammond badly injured in jet-car crash
LONDON (Reuters) – Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was seriously ill in hospital on Thursday after being badly injured after a high-speed crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the programme.
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For the full story see: Top Gear’s Hammond badly injured in jet-car crash | Reuters.co.uk
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Here’s a niche market
Do you think they publish fortnightly or monthly?
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Clowns are scary
But clown vans are even more scary.
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It’s all been said…
Bug Bash started life as an internal MS comic strip by cartoonist and program manager, Hans Bjordahl. It has a ton of great commentary on the software development process and has also been available outside MS for a while now. My favorite series of strips is a set of “Meeting Busters – Surefire ways to sink your meeting”. Within that series, there is this beautiful cell:
Some more back story: when we lived in Colorado my wife (well… girlfriend at the time) and I loved Hans Bjordahl’s comics in the University of Colorado school paper (I wasn’t going to college there, Paula was). When I started work for Microsoft I noticed the “Bug Bash” comic in our internal newspaper had the same character style (which led me to dig up the old clippings I had… and lo!). When Hans left Microsoft this year I worried we’d loose the regular dose of laughing at the software development industry but Hans has continued to write and publish Bug Bash (this was the only sentence without a parenthetical).
I was reminded of it this morning when I came across a CNet article (from February) on how the Internet is changing the business of cartoonists. Tag line:
“See you in the funny pages” takes on a new meaning for cartoon artists who are making a home on the Web.
Here are direct links to the Meeting Busters strips:
SmugMug now offers a 14 trial which doesn’t require a credit card. You now have no excuse to go try out what I think is the best photo site on the net.
Back when Omar turned me on to SmugMug a credit card was required to do the free trial, turning a bunch of people away from the site. While requiring a CC caused resistance, the number of people who stayed is worth noting: of the people I know who did the trial, over 80% of them stayed with the service. With props from PC Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Macworld, Newsweek, Businssweek and Forbes you can be sure you’re getting a great product.
Oh, and once you sign up (because you will sign up :)), be sure to download Omar’s Send to SmugMug tool (Windows only, sorry). Send to SmugMug makes the process of uploading pictures a simple task.