I like to like things somewhat off the beaten path. But when asked what my favorite movie of all time is, like almost everyone else I know who has even a smidgen of taste, I say “Blade Runner“. No need for me to wax poetic about how great it is. I mean it has been around for 25 years now, and if you don’t already dig it nothing I say will change your mind. I …Continue reading →

Soma’s post announcing Popfly got me thinking. He uses the word “evolution”. I say it’s a revolution. Over 25 years ago I was part of a movement in the computer industry and didn’t even realize it. I was just a kid doing things on my Apple ][ I didn’t realize I had no business doing. I was a hobbyist developer. A bit later, in college, I wrote some of the earliest freeware & shareware for Windows. …Continue reading →

I’m getting old and I think some of this newfangled technology stuff is beyond me. But that doesn’t stop me from trying to understand (and use it). I learn by doing. I can’t learn by reading. So I started blogging mostly to learn how blogs and blogging really worked. I run 6 servers in my house so I understand how Exchange, SQL Server, Group Policy, etc…. really work. And now I’m trying Twitter because there …Continue reading →

Air Originally uploaded by ckindel. I’m now about 1/3 of the way through organizing and filtering the over 4000 photos we took in Africa. I still haven’t geo tagged any, but I appreicate the pointers I have gotten from people on good tools to use. Click here to see my Flickr set containing a sampling of the best shots we took.I’m off to Europe tomorrow to visit with Windows Home Server partners and to see …Continue reading →

Day 1 – Arusha to Serena 162 Originally uploaded by ckindel. We’re finally back from our amazing trip to East Africa. I thought I’d be able to jack in during our lay over at the Amsterdam airport and start to catch up on mail and start organizing photos. Almost 4000 of them.  But it didn’t happen.I took my GPS with me and created track logs of everywhere we went. I’m really excited about geotagging all …Continue reading →

Day 1 – Arusha to Serena 162 Originally uploaded by ckindel. The “tent camp” we are staying at here in the Sergengeti has a PC with satellite “broadband” access. I was able to sequester it long enough to upload this image and type this post. So far, the sights have been pretty unbelievable. Lions, giraffes, hyeaneas, birds, cape buffalo, elephants, gizelles, … Over 1600 photos between the four of us so far and we’ve only …Continue reading →