This last week was a flurry of events captured in pictures – mostly related to me going to a couple of parties with friends. 

I also managed to get some of my backlog of pictures uploaded too…

Some of the Pictures after the Break...

…but they were spam – they only made it as far as my comment approval queue – but still… What I’m trying to figure out is how they got there past the CAPTCHA – I guess somebody has figured out a way around reCAPTCHA’s algorithm… or there is some backdoor into my site that I’m unaware of. Time to check the updates…

Just a minor note…. After I spent the entire day at HCRR, running trains and cooking out, We visited for a while at Randy & Karen’s place, had some good food and watched a bit of a show – I’m glad their house isn’t too far away from mine – because by the time I got home, it was all I could do to find the bed and collapse into it.  Loooong day.

I didn’t take any pictures at the Railroad – but I did get a few of the show…

photos: Craig Tucker; view this slideshow on Flickr

I was literally down to hours before the Beta copy of Win7 that I’ve been running on my primary home machine was about to expire – I did my backup and decided to go for it. 

Originally, I was under the impression that I couldn’t make the upgrade without having to re-install everything but after doing a little searching around, found that it is indeed possible – with a little bit of file manipulation – to do the upgrade from Beta to RC – and it’s even (somewhat tangentially) approved by Microsoft. 

SO, Kudos to the Win7 development team – it appears to have worked very well… of course, time will tell.

When RTM comes out, though, I will be doing a clean install then – good excuse to buy a new, bigger, hard drive.

Ok, a couple of days ago, I had something of an epiphany about how I find out about things… I originally heard about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center from a friend via an email – and it took quite a bit of messing about but we at the office were able to watch the broadcast news on my office computer via a remote desktop to the video capture on my computer at home – it wasn’t great viewing – but we were able to see it… fast forward plenty of years and I’m sitting at my computer and checking my Twitter feed and notice in the tag cloud that there is something about a train wreck in DC… In the strangest way, before any of the ‘official news’ outlets are picking it up, I’m hearing about news that is amazingly accurate – if taken in this larger scale, it starts looking a lot like Asimov’s Psychohistory from the Foundation series

One of the guys I work with and I were discussing how this real-time access to the crowd, in this case, via Twitter, is amazing in how it can aggregate together and produce a picture that is remarkably accurate.  Of course, the flip side is – it can be totally inaccurate, too – buyer beware, I guess Harrison Ford is glad they were wrong.

So it was with a slight bit of amazement that I saw floating in the tag cloud: Jackson and Dead.  WTF?!  A couple of clicks later and I’m sitting there just a little bit stunned.

When did the 80’s start dying?  In a matter of days, three icons of my 80’s life have ceased to exist in the mortal plane (Not to mention they are STILL planning on remaking the A-Team – don’t get me started on that). 

It’s just all very unsettling some days…