For Your Musical Enjoyment ::

Little Johnny Kantreed with his cigar box guitar. I met Johnny last month at The Cigar Box Guitar Extravaganza here in Huntsville.



Soon I'll post some things from One String Willie.

Sunday Evening Kitten Blogging ::

I really need to come up with a name for the kitten.

Masthead Is Fixed ::

At least until I forget to renew my domain name next year!

Broken Masthead ::

The photograph of the flag landscape in Lugoff has not gone away. The photo is hosted on another server and linked to another site. Unfortunately I let the domain name expire so the masthead is changed. My web hosts are taking care of this and everything should be back to normal shortly.

Did anyone get down to Charleston for Harbor Fest? I would like to have seen the tall ships. Many years ago I was in Torremolinos, Spain and woke up very early one morning and walked down to the Mediterranean Sea. There was a very heavy fog that morning and out of the fog I could see the masts of a tall sailing ship. Unfortunately I hadn't brought one of the cameras with me so the image exists only in my mind and it still is quite a striking image. As it turns out the ship was the Italian Navy training ship which was making a visit up and down the coast.

NASA Trailer At Charleston's Harbor Fest ::

If any of you happen to be attending Harbor Fest this weekend please check out the NASA van. It is an interesting experience and has been redone to reflect NASA's focus on the Constellation X Project, specifically the new Ares space transportation designs.



Details are here.

An astronaut will be at Harbor Fest for answering questions along with one of my photographers. If you see a tall, goofy looking guy with a camera standing alongside an astronaut ask David to take your picture!

Windows 7 ::

I was at a technical expo last Thursday and was given a couple of release copies of Windows 7 by Microsoft. I've been debating whether or not to load it up, but I think I'm gonna do it on the laptop in the next couple of days. One of the IT guys I work with has been running the beta of Windows 7 for the past few months and absolutely loves it, so I guess I'll take the plunge. The only thing about it is that the release copy self-destructs next year meaning I'll have to buy a full copy of the operating system, but I imagine it'll be worth it. If not I'll be out a coupla hundred bucks!

I'm trying to find out if Windows 7 will address more than 3 gigs of ram with Adobe Photoshop. The new computer build has 4 gigs installed now, but will accept 16 gigs although I only anticipate adding another 4 for a total of 8 gigs.

I see some video editing in my future!

Flag Week-Saturday

Time to cut the grass today with temperatures in the mid 90s so I thought I'd post the photograph of the snowman.

Flag Week-Friday

Buzz Aldrin Tweets :;

http://twitter.com/therealbuzz

Flag Week-Thursday ::

Flag Week-Wednesday ::

Taken somewhere near Rembert on a trip a couple of years ago.

Cat Bath Day ::

blood was spilled--mine!

Flag Week-tuesday ::

Flag Week-Monday ::

The monument to the victims of the Cleveland School fire in the cemetery of Beaulah Methodist Church in the Charlotte Thompson community. My stepfather and baby brother are buried here.

flag Week-2009 ::

Images of flags are some of my favorite and I'll be posting some more of these photographs during the week. This one was taken about 3 years ago in the cemetery up in the DeKalb community where my grandparents are buried.

Space Shuttle Launch ::

Launch is scheduled for 7:17 am eastern tomorrow morning.



[update] From nasa.gov

The launch of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission to the International Space Station is on hold due to a leak associated with the gaseous hydrogen venting system outside the external fuel tank. The system is used to carry excess hydrogen safely away from the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At 12:26 a.m. EDT Saturday, managers officially scrubbed the launch for at least 96 hours.

New Computer Build ::

I've finally got all of the new ingredients for my new computer and I'm getting ready to start putting it together. This one should be a pretty kick-butt box although I hate the thought of reloading all of the software. Here are the components:

Gigabyte EP45-UD3R motherboard
Intel 2.6ghz DuoCore processor
320Gig Western Digital C drive
2 500Gig Western Digital hard drives on a raid 5 array
4 gigs of Crucial ram (Mobo will handle 16 gigs)
Gonna reload XP-pro right now as an operating system

I haven't bought an off the shelf desktop computer since 1998. The prices are great from Dell and the other manufacturers, but I like knowing exactly what is inside my boxes. If there is a problem I generally know exactly how to fix it and the hardware upgrade path is much easier.

The new laptop has served me well since my old desktop was killed by lightening, but I just don't like doing any sort of graphics with the laptop screen. Hopefully I'll be back up running early next week at the latest.