Here’s something to pass some time. I’ve been quite busy lately cleaning out my room and re-organizing things along with work and some video broadcasts here there.
My friend Doug Murray sent me this link a little while ago.
Pretty cool super high-res photos.
gigapixelphotography.com
Also, take a look at Gigapan for some more stuff. David Bergman did a 1474mpx photo from President Obama’s Inauguration.
Mid-last week, I helped FCV Technologies launch the new Harry Jerome International Track Classic website. This year’s meet will take place at Swangard Stadium on Sunday, June 14th.
This new website replaces a much needed re-design along with some web 2.0 elements in social networking to keep users engaged and more immersed in the track world. The Achilles Track Society is responsible for overseeing the operation and development of the meet. It is headed by Doug Clement (just google him for more information).
FYI, this website is hosted by on the same servers that host my website and picaday.ca….
One slightly controversial item that this website, and many more out there have, is the use of a splash page. From experience, I have found that end-users seem to dislike the use of splash pages whereas companies seem to enjoy producing them. It seems like most IT people dislike them as well. With Google Analytics installed, will there be a discrepancy with the splash page and the rest of the website in terms of visits? Will some users simply just exit and move on? Or will everyone decide to venture into the rest of the website? We can also compare the average time users look at the splash page. Lets wait a while and see what happens.
Check out the website: www.harryjerome.com
The media hasn’t mentioned Conficker for a while so I figured I’d give you a little update about what its doing. BTW, I’m referring media as the mainstream news broadcasters, not the tech blogs/sites out there which most IT people tend to always follow.
Its been nearly 2 weeks since the April 1st doomsday. Last week, Conficker decided to silently start updating itself. It began downloading a variation of Waledac on April 7th. It is fake antispyware/antivirus software much like Antivirus 2009. It will attempt to trick you into purchasing its “services” for some amount. If you fall for the trick, congratulations, your credit card is now in the hands of hackers.
Once again, make sure your computer has the Windows updates. More specifically, the MS08-067 patch is installed. Also, make sure you have the latest anti virus updates.
You can also run Malwarebytes which has so far, had a good track record lately in detecting rogue software.
PS: AVG Free users, from experience, this anti virus software is like having no anti virus software installed. Get a new one! (I don’t have time to get into specifics)