Posts Tagged ‘PDC’

Mack D. Male a nice guy from Canada has launched AcademicLonghorn.com. I’m really excited to see it up and running!

It now joins the UCLA Passion site and the Microsoft Student Partners. Dom, Mark and I are all hoping and counting each site as they pop up. I think I can safely say we’ll be seeing a site run by Oxford University soon as well as another portal for the Society of Women Engineers over at UCLA as well.

I also wanted to say Mack did a class job on the graphics for his site. While not a substantial shift from the original skin I think the colors he used go well both with the skin and align nicely with the original Longhorn logo. I couldn’t have done better myself. Great work!

Since I’ve been back from the PDC I’ve been trying to stay current on all the blogs I’ve got in NewsGator. It’s been a real pain in the neck lately because I’ve doubled the blogs I follow since then. When I got back from the PDC I had 1523 blogs to read. Then on Sunday I had 2467. But now I’m finally down to 0. I’m afraid that if I hit Get News Now it’ll already be back up to 20 (okay I hit it and it’s 8, err wait it didn’t finish, it’s 12, oh err wait again just my luck it’s 22, err 34).

I’m really not used to just scanning through subject lines of peoples blogs and such, I’m too used to taking my time and reading every single entry but I’ve come to realize that that’s just not possible. I’ve got to scan through all the unread’s give the blog entries various degrees of flag importance and move on till I’ve got the time to take a bit of time to really read all the good stuff.

Let’s not get started on time to enter in blog entries of my own. Though I use dasBlog it’s pretty limited in the way I want to use it. I’ve also had the problem of entering in a nice big long entry in Word then copied it in only to lose it before I could submit it (also because I use CTRL+C and CTRL+V a lot). So I’m very nervous about that now. In any case I’m very happy with the progress on the catching up. Now to do some other catching up… in bed.

I was expecting some ridiculous time, wouldn’t have been surprised if it took longer than the install (I won’t name the MS apps that have). But still it did take quite a while on my 2.4GHz P4m with 512MB of RAM and the 5400RPM laptop HDD. Another note is that the 1.8GHz P4 MCE with 256MB of RAM finished the batch process in Photoshop of auto touching up 4360 photos and resizing them in just a little less time.

Setup took about 2 hours and 20 odd some minutes on XP SP1. I wonder if the uninstall will win or lose? And yes I plan on reinstalling it, just wanted to test out theWhidbey uninstall . I guess I got curious.

There’s plenty of other places to get them but just so I can hand a link to a couple friends here’s my little gathering of Longhorn and PDC 03 wallpaper (they’re all 1600×1200). First are the 3 originals.

• The first is the PDC 03 wallpaper from Jeff Sandquist’s blog.
• The second is the Longhorn Grass which is from the PDC demo of Aero as demonstrated by Hillel Cooperman.
• This third one which everyone knows and loves is Bliss from Longhorn build 4051.
• The last one is also from the Hillel Cooperman demos and is a shot of the support beams of the L.A. Convention Center.

The rest of these are just variations I did to better match the Slate theme and the current theme I’m using.

• PDC 03 Ice
• PDC 03 Clean Ice
• PDC 03 Clean Slate
• Stylized Grass
• Blue Stylized Longhorn Grass
• Slate Stylized Longhorn Grass

Please download and enjoy