http://waltersmith.us Walter rambling about this and that Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:21:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just joined LinkedIn because now "everyone" seems to be doing it. Which I guess is increasing their value quadratically, or at least by N log(N), depending on who you believe. Funny, now that I'm in a three-person company instead of a 70,000-person company, networking seems much more important! http://waltersmith.us/blog/2007/04/02/linkedin/ I'm pleased to announce that I'm helping to start a new company called Jackson Fish Market. The name is a bit odd, but it was the only remaining .com name in English, so we took it. (Just kidding.) We are trying to be pretty transparent about the startup process on our ... http://waltersmith.us/blog/2007/03/05/jackson-fish-market/ As close followers of my About Me page will have already noticed, I have left Microsoft. My departure is completely amicable. I was looking for a change of project, and in the process I realized what I really wanted was a bigger change than that. So I gave notice a ... http://waltersmith.us/blog/2007/03/04/a-new-chapter/ Apparently Bob Dylan thinks these newfangled music player things suck, but he is also willing to advertise them. Or maybe he had to...major label contracts, you know. http://waltersmith.us/blog/2006/08/29/im-confused-bob/ Microsoft has released the Consolas font for users of Visual Studio 2005. As far as I'm concerned this is a must-have if you spend any time programming. And now for an extra trick: how to use Consolas as your console window font on XP. Run this command to add Consolas as ... http://waltersmith.us/blog/2006/05/04/youre-a-programmer-you-need-consolas/ Executive summary: I am about to shut off wsmith.best.vwh.net. Please fix links if you have any. Long-winded nostalgic ramble: More than ten years ago, I signed up for my first web hosting account. I went with a local ISP called Best Internet Communications, which occupied a retail storefront in Mountain View, California. I ... http://waltersmith.us/blog/2006/04/03/goodbye-best-internet/ It's been a long while since I looked at the HL2 mod scene. I guess that explains why Garry's Mod got to version 9 before I heard of it. This is not technically a game, but it's much more fun than any mod that is a game. I won't try ... http://waltersmith.us/blog/2006/02/19/garrys-mod/ As predicted by James Oberg in his fine article Seven myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster, the New York Times continues to propagate the myths in their homepage blurb at right—though they only had room to include two of them. As Mr. Oberg says: The flight, and the lost crewmembers, deserve proper ... http://waltersmith.us/blog/2006/01/28/challenger-myth-vs-reality/ Turns out we didn't write any trip reports from Antarctica because we were just too exhausted! Also, email from the ship was about $3 per kilobyte. However, my intention is to write retroactive diary entries based on our pictures and notes. So keep an eye on early January... Update, 4 Mar ... http://waltersmith.us/blog/2006/01/27/retroactive-antarctica-posts/ I am going through the >3000 pictures we took in Antarctica, and noticed that some of them were way out of order. It turns out that one of the cameras' clocks was set 12 hours off. Then I realized the other camera was set to Pacific time anyway, so really ... http://waltersmith.us/blog/2006/01/27/batch-editing-jpeg-headers/