Posted in Microsoft, Tech on May 30th, 2007 6 Comments »
Out of Steve Bathiche and Andy Wilson’s work on Surface Computing comes an elegant 30-inch diagonal display table that reacts to touch — and will hit the market in Winter 2007. It’ll be on display at Siggraph in August.
Check out the demo (done in Flash (!) ).
More on the Microsoft Research work into surface [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Tech on May 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve had a couple of people tell me that messages from my new email address, sent from the domain robburke.net, have been caught as spam by their company spam filters. I suspect this is an unexpected consequence of using the otherwise very handy Windows Live Custom Domains to host my mail.
Does anyone know any [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Nikon, Photography, Tech on May 26th, 2007 15 Comments »
Nikon has released an updated version of their Raw (NEF) Codec for Vista that resolves an issue that caused it to suddenly stop working last week. Apparently the problem had something to do with an expired certificate.
The new codec is still labeled version 1.01. However, if you uninstall the old 1.00 or 1.01 codec, and [...]
Posted in Canada, Moose, Personal on May 26th, 2007 No Comments »
The north of Norway is so cool that they have albino moose (with pic).
On an unrelated note, as a windsurfer and a wanna-be kite-surfer, does this kite-surfer dude from Brighton not have the coolest commute to work ever?
Georgian Bay, north of Toronto, has some of the best kite surfing conditions imaginable in the summer: Stretching [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Ireland, Personal, Tech, Tech Events on May 22nd, 2007 11 Comments »
Talk Abstract:
By day, he helps mild-mannered developers build n-tiered architectures using .NET technologies.
But by night, the real Rob comes out. The one that works endlessly - nay, furiously - with XNA and the Microsoft Robotics Studio. And now, with backpack and camera over shoulders, he’s going freelance, making the IMTC, in fact, Rob’s Last [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography on May 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
There are two kinds of digital photographers in the world: those that leave the plastic cover over the back of their camera, and those that don’t. I lost my cover long ago, and the image display on my D70s is consistently covered in noseprints.
Speaking of plastic and photography, my Dad remembers something he was [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Personal, Tech on May 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I’d best start this blog with the most-neglected topic from my MSDN blog: artificial intelligence.
On the plane ride home from the MIX07 event in Las Vegas, I finished reading the new Douglas Hofstadter new book, I Am A Strange Loop. It’s a sequel to his Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, which alternates between [...]
Posted in Personal, Tech on May 8th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m going to start blogging here at www.robburke.net. This WordPress blog was a snap to set up - I am very impressed - and now the hardest bit seems to be choosing the right theme!
During the past three years of writing on my MSDN blog, I was constrained by a feeling (right or wrong) that [...]
