DiFolders Software has released beta 1.2 of Blogjet which is what I use to blog. There are quite a few nice new feature and has been quite stable so far.

One new feature is that it dose image resizing so here is a test of that.

Edit: Cool looks like it works like a champ! Look for more photos here soon.

I have been working on a new hobby project, it is a direct ripoff of a application that I used when I was working with Microsoft. It was called Richcopy and wow is all I can say! The big feature of it was that it would do multi threaded copying of files which helped speedup copying from disk to disk as doing a normal file copy as a lot of time is spend on the transport mechanism and not on disk IO. I will do some testing comparing doing copy one at a time vs multi threaded but from experience it dose save a bunch of time.

A buddy of mine has offered to help with the look of the application as I am a horrible UI designer but as of yet all I have gotten is help with the name. Originally I called this project Richer Copy but he talked me out of that and he came up with StreamMachine… I am not so sure I like it as I think names should reflect what the application dose or is about but what do I know.

At any rate if you are willing to give StreamMachine a try in a early alpha let me know and I will email you a copy if not check back here for a beta release soon.

I am using this as the component to update the new StreamMachine project I am working on.

.NET Application Updater Component

Some cool free tools for your computer.

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

99% of my family computer support questions are now related to Spyware! There is no 100% fix but I have found a good resource for removing bad things from you computer. The site is TomCoyote.com I have yet to clean system with the advice and tools there but I am sure I will next time I need to.

I for the first time saw the PBS show Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered after seeing Carlson be so unreasonable with Jon Stewart if you did did not see it look at the ifilms clip. Carlson is just a joke that has too much makeup on and can't see that he may not know what is going on in the world that he reports to report on.

And the press as a whole can see why they get the label of "The Liberal Media". The truly said thing is that PBS gives this guy a platform!

I posted some pictures from Max's and my camp-out at Catalina.

Catalina Island (Two Harbors) 2004

Once you click on a image you will most likely need to scroll down to see the larger version of the image.

Starts off slow but just wait....

http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=1000

I recently got a cool Verizon wireless card so I can be connected any where (I am not sure I want to be but hey I am a geek) when I first installed I was running Windows 2003 Server on my Compaq Evo laptop (yes a server on a laptop... did I say I was a geek) any to make a sort story long the software was not supported and when I did go ahead and install it boom my network stack was corrupt and un-installing it did not fix it.

I decided to rebuild my box this time back to XP so I could test Service Pack 2 for XP. OK fun part of this was that this was over a weekend that I had committed to build a httpModule for my current customer to fix a MAC client issue that was caused by .NETs more accurate compliance of http standards (yes I talked them in to going from an asp\vb 6 component to a .NET component and boom stuff stops working) but it was that all along the MAC client had been sending a malformed request. So the httpModule just rearranges the few bytes that are misplaced and boom now the MAC client works as it should with no code change to the main .NET component... sweet. But I digress so now I have a XP system with SP2 and yes the new wireless card works no problem. It is not as fast as I though it would be but it's much better then not beefing connected at all.

There is one thing I have done and I am not happy to admit it but I have stopped running as a user I am back to running as a local administrator. There were so many problems with software that I run quite often that just made it too much of a pain in the a@@. Example is Winamp I don't get that what the heck does Winamp need to wright to it's main directory? Well running as a user is a great thing for security reasons and there are ways around all the issues I ran in to but it was just painful and what can I say I am just lazy.

Any way I am back to blogging again... we will see how long this will last.

Now playing: Dido - Don't Leave Home