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January 13, 2012

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Intellectual Property and You

About a week ago, after a very long day at work, I came home and just wanted to relax, eat, hang out and maybe do a little "work" on the computer. Unfortunately I received an email from a book author who had found out that the eBook publisher he was planning on using seemed to have a thing for "borrowing" artwork to be used as cover art. He had decided to match as many book covers to artists as possible and tracked me down in order to let me know that a painting of mine was being used on a book currently being sold on Amazon.com.

*sigh*

I am not a professional artist. I like snapping photos, drawing and playing around in Photoshop. People occasionally like what I do and buy prints or download copies to be used as background for various devices, but never in a million years did I think that I would have to worry about someone actually stealing something from me. The truth is that when listening to or reading various discussions on "intellectual property" …

Create A Weather Web Part for SharePoint

UPDATE: June 2, 2011
I made some adjustments to the XSLT. If you've had problems getting this to work previously, you might want to try it again.
I wanted to add weather information to a SharePoint site (a "My Site" to be exact), but I wanted something relatively simple. Using the Page Viewer or Content Editor web parts was not really giving me what I wanted since that involved including snippets of markup and javascript which might also require signing up for the privilege. I also wasn't keen on including all of their branding. Just tell me what I'm missing outside when I'm stuck inside.

So I did some messing around with the RSS Viewer web part and got something working. I then found that the RSS Viewer has a 30-minute cache restriction that cannot be changed. I don't want to know how warm it was 29 minutes ago, I want to be able to refresh and know what the temperature is now. So I switched to the XML web part which is what I should have used to sta…

Bake Me A Wish Review

For Valentine's Day I thought I'd order a cake for my wife. I'd heard of Bake Me A Wish through my favorite comic book podcast who they sponsor. Their tiramisu cake would be the perfect choice.

Since many of you may be hesitant to order a cake online or are curious about what to expect, here are some unboxing photos.

I was gratified to find this box on my doorstep on exactly the day I requested (February 13th). It seems to have seen some rougher-than-I'd-like treatment. Note that on every side you see the notice that the box contains a perishable item and arrows pointing out the correct box orientation.

Inside you will find a solid styrofoam inner-container.

Popping the lid off reveals a very chilly ice pack.

Removal of the ice pack reveals the cake box inside with a handy ribbon strung beneath the box to make it a simple task to life the box straight out of the cooler.

Et voilà!

The cake is well packaged within the box (and still quit chilled as you can see). However…

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