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Beach House Vacation

DaveS — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:30:42 +0000

Some pics from our 3-night stay at the “Sandy Toes” beach house at Alligator Point, near Tallahassee.

Windows Service Development Woes

DaveS — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:13:05 +0000

At work, I’ve been working on a Windows service using C#, and I encountered a couple of problems that took a bit of digging to solve (for every page with useful info there are many pages with people asking how to solve the problem). I thought I’d put those here so they would be in one place for others who run into the same annoyances.

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Found Film

DaveS — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:47:02 +0000

This is old, but I think it is one of the coolest pages I’ve seen on the internet. This guy finds antique cameras that still contain undeveloped film–dating back to the 1920’s or 1930’s in some cases–and he develops them and posts them online with some thoughtful commentary. Some of these photos really drive home how short life is… when I see a couple in their 20’s taking photographs of each other at the park on a nice fall day, knowing that both of them have possibly passed away without ever viewing those photos, it makes me think!

Object-Oriented Input System (OIS) Documentation

DaveS — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:26:39 +0000

I was playing with OGRE 3D, which now comes bundled with Object-Oriented Input System (OIS) for any input needs that you may have when tooling around. I didn’t see any documentation online for it, so I ran it through doxygen and hosted the pages here if anyone is interested. The docs are for version 1.0.

Business Near Ft. Walton Beach

DaveS — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:55:44 +0000

For work, they sent me to the Eglin AFB area for a couple of days. This is seriously the closest room I could get to where I needed to be!

Video of Endeavor Launch from My Backyard

DaveS — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:08:10 +0000

I got a little antsy getting outside after it launched… I thought it would be visible quicker.

I Finally Saw Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Live!

DaveS — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:29:16 +0000

A while back I noticed that the London Symphony Orchestra would be in Daytona for the Florida International Festival performing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. I’ve wanted to see that performed live for years, and to have the LSO performing it just up the road was just more than I could have hoped for. So I grabbed a couple of tickets for Allison and myself–second row, just right of center–and we went to the concert.

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Harry Potter Mania!

DaveS — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:05:11 +0000

So some of my friends coerced me into going to the Borders release party–the “Grand Hallows Ball”, as they called it–for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I ordered mine on Amazon precisely so that I could avoid this kind of chaos). I usually avoid trying to be “that guy”… you know, the guy who goes to the midnight release party for a Harry Potter book dressed as Dobby the House Elf.

The handsome Dementor fellow to my right is my buddy, Ben. We got a lot of attention from the kids, which was fun. We posed for a ton of photos with people of all ages.

New Server, New Blog, New Template

DaveS — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:31:05 +0000

I think the title pretty much says it all. I had my web host move my account to a server with Rails hosting, so I took the opportunity to start from scratch. I slapped together this template–its the my first Wordpress template! Yay!–just to get something up and running, but I intend to prettify it over the next few days.

There isn’t much leftover from the old blog, but if anyone is looking for the photos from Allison’s and my wedding, those can be found here.