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Aquabee Sketchbook: Untitled Pastel by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-28T02:59:00.000-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook: Untitled Pastel - My grandma used to sit and do pastels for hours and hours. I remember seeing her do this as a small child. It was a medium she was always very fond of. Once, when I was maybe 11 or 12 she gave me a set of pastels for my birthday.

Aquabee Sketch: Man Reclining by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-23T00:59:00.001-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook: Reclining Man - I really like this sketch! I especially like the expression on the man's face.

Aquabee Sketch: Child with Book by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-21T11:10:00.001-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook: Child with Book - A portrait of a child holding a book (my interpretation) taken from her Aquabee sketchbook. The more I look at these sketches the more I wonder what period they date from. Could probably be determined from the Aquabee design on the cover (when were these made?). Of course that would only tell us when the sketchbook dates from, not when the sketches were made.

Aquabee Sketch: Man by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-07T13:27:00.001-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook - A portrait of a man taken from her Aquabee sketchbook.

Aquabee Sketchbook: Seated Woman by Eleanor Hilowitz

2007-10-06T19:08:00.001-04:00

Aquabee Sketchbook - My grandmother recently passed away. As a something of tribute to her, I will be posting a curated selection of sketches from her oeuvre every few days (so basically forever -- she drew a lot!).

Aquabee Sketchbook: Seated Woman - This one is of a seated woman. She didn't title it, I did.

Grandmother Movie Stills: Man Experiences Trauma

2007-09-03T17:41:00.000-04:00

My grandmother, Eleanor, was a film producer and distributer for 30+ years. As a result, I've now come into a huge number of film stills all ostensibly from b-movies she produced/helped distribute. I will be publishing them here on a weekly basis. The first one shows a man clearly experiencing some sort of trauma. May he recover from what ails him, God willing.

Moving Blogger posts

2007-07-08T20:36:00.000-04:00

I'm in the position of wanting to move a crapload of my old blog posts to either this blog or to my other, rockstar, blog without doing real work. Blogger doesn't offer anything in the way of tools to do this.

Tour De France 2K7

2007-07-08T20:20:00.000-04:00

I've decided that I want to care about the Tour De France this year. I guess some part of it is nostalgia from when I lived in Switzerland--I remember everyone watching it religiously, but of course at that time I wasn't really very into it. I'm not that intent on watching it actively, but I really want to be able to have it on in the background. The problem is, ESPN doesn't seem to be carrying it (at least not on any of the basic cable channels we get). So I've turned to the WEB. Here's what I've found:

Ubilabs has an online map (mapping courtesy of Google Maps) that displays the actual real-time positions of all the cyclists. This is sort of hard to deal with (at least for me), because by the time I'm ready to watch some real-time action, each stage is already over. I'm beginning to see that even if ESPN televise this I wouldn't be watching it. http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance/
Yahoo UK! has a nice page with a bunch of different panels including a tracker, live audio, and a breakdown of each stages winners, times, etc. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/tour-de-france/

HP Pavilion a1600n Drivers

2007-01-22T22:03:00.000-05:00

I just got myself an HP Pavilion a1600n Media Center PC. I formatted, got rid of the "recovery partition" and installed Windows XP. Finding the drivers for was a real pain. Basically the thing to remember is that most of the motherboard's components were made by NVIDIA. After installing Windows XP, I realized that I had essentially screwed up in installing a 32-bit OS when a perfectly 64-bit version of XP exists. So I had to find all the drivers again...in 64-bit version. Here's what I found:

64-bit

GeForce 6150 LE (Graphics) driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_93.71.html

ForceWare Release 90
Version: 93.71
Release Date: November 2, 2006
WHQL Certified
File is named: 93.71_forceware_winxp64_english_whql.exe
nForce 430/410 driver: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_winxp64_8.26_11.09.html

Version: 8.26 for nForce 430 (MCP51), 410
Version: 11.09 for 430 (MCP61), 405, 400
Release Date: January 5, 2007
WHQL Certified
File is named: 8.26_11.09_nforce_winxp64_english.exe

RealTek sound drivers: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...GetDown=false

Windows 2000, Windows XP/2003(32/64 bits) Driver only (Executable file)

A CSS-based Paint program

2006-09-30T23:51:00.000-04:00

And here is the css-based paint program I considered making in the previous post.

David

I wish there were a website where graphic design could be done online

2006-09-23T17:26:00.000-04:00

I wish there were a website where graphic design could be done online. Something that takes advantage of what HTML 4.0 already offers us in the way of graphical elements.

div's and...well I guess even just div's would be totally amazing. Like a sort of a div

painter. Something with a smooth, intuitive interface. Not just additive but something where you could take the divs and re-size them. Wouldn't that be something. And I guess text, right? You could do text-boxes within canvas. And the fonts at your disposal would be...anything that is on your machine. Of course, we could work with .eot's as well so that some fonts would be preloaded. When you were done you'd have the option of getting the html or...err...taking a screenshot. Of course, when CSS 3.0 comes out, I expect the whole world will change.

Right now, I'm listening to Ulrich Schnauss's masterpiece, A Strangely Isolated Place. I can't say enough about this record.

David

Eolas Patch Test

2006-08-24T17:48:00.000-04:00

If your browser is affected by the so-called Internet Explorer Eolas patch, a gray box should appear around the following flash movie.

Talk about ripping off last.fm

2006-08-17T17:40:00.000-04:00

Look here. Google has a new feature in Google Talk that allows you to send Google info on what you're currently listening to. Sucks that they didn't just buy last.fm.

2006-06-17T14:47:00.000-04:00

Slowly—on saturdays, mondays and wednesdays—I'm creating what I hope will be the definitive catalog of my grandmother's work. I've started a new flickr page which I will continue uploading to and updating. I'm gradually poring over the reams of letters, lists, and slides that she kept detailing sizes and years for all of the works.

2006-05-21T23:55:00.000-04:00

I've been using Synapse Orion for like six years now. Since version 2.5 or something. And now it's on version 6. It's really pretty well put together. For loop-based music stuff I haven't found anything I like better. And yet...

Apparently it doesn't handle Hyper-Threading in Intel chips very well. I've been trying to remix my now 150+ pieces of Orion moodmusic music at 24/96 with better monitors, but my system can't handle the load. It should be able to, of course. It's a P4 2.8Ghz I can run all the same VSTi's and plug-ins in Cubase with no problems. But alas, it seems to be dedicating only half the CPU to Orion. Look at the Task Manager screen to the left, you'll see that the "virtual" processor on the right is getting all the load while the one on the left is untouched. Very frustrating. Suffice it to say I don't think it would handle true multiple processors any differently.
If I go into the bios and turn of Hyper-Threading it performs significantly better, though still not quite as well as Cubase with the same plug-ins.

O'Reilly Hack Search

2006-05-15T10:48:00.000-04:00

You know how O'Reilly is always offering those free hacks from their Hacks book series. And you know how every week there is a different one for each book? But the only way to know this is to check each book page to see if they're offering any new ones? It's a pain to have to keep checking their site, especially to find that they haven't updated them or the hacks they're offering aren't of any particular interest to you. It would be better if you could see all the free hacks that are available at any given time without all the work. Now you can. Google Search for Free O'Reilly Hacks.

Dave

2006-04-13T11:43:00.000-04:00

Google Calendar + RememberTheMilk.com. Okay, so I use both of these services. But for some reason I can't seem toget Google Calender to read my stupid RememberTheMilk.com iCal feed. Anyone else having this problem?

2006-02-01T09:34:00.000-05:00

Sometimes, when you're developing for IE and you have DHTML/JavaScript code that dynamically swaps out the background images for an element (say, because you are hovering over it or really for any other reason as well), the images flicker. This is because IE reloads the images every time regardless of whether it has the image cached. The trick (and this only works if you are using IIS to serve your web site) is to modify the caching headers sent out for your /images/ directory (or whatever directory your background images are served from). Here is how you do it:

There you go.
David

2006-01-27T11:00:00.000-05:00

Gosh. My first post.

Corporation Searching by State

2003-09-01T15:20:00.000-04:00

To get document.all.length for Mozilla.

2003-09-01T15:18:00.000-04:00

document.all.length becomes document.getElementsByTagName('*').length

Da Metronome 1.1

1999-08-16T10:42:00.000-04:00

Download DaMetro 1.1 (21k) - A metronome program for Windows 95. It lets you select between the built-in sound, the PC speaker, and your own wave file. It also features a drop-down menu to let you selected the priority of the program (for better timing accuracy). Requires file "mfc40.dll".