Google's Picasa

I downloaded Picasa just a few hours ago and have been messing around with it while surfing and posting. It is awesome! Very easy to use and very fast. Sure, it can't even compare to what a good graphic designer* can do with Photoshop (or Gimp) to improve an image. But I'm no graphic designer. I strongly recommend this software. Joyce and Diana, this recommendation is for you two; so, before you next get your digital photos printed, download Picasa and give this a try.

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* I served with Kussman in the Army. He can do some very cool things. For example, after my last deployment I went to Scotland, and took a lot of pictures with my digital camera. Well, one picture I took with very low battery power had the bottom third damaged. Kussman was able to make it look perfect; I still wonder how he did it.

"Judge Grants Hinckley Overnight Visits"

Imagine getting to shoot three people, only spend approximately twenty-five years in a psychiatric facility, and being allowed out. There is something wrong with our system. Hinckley should have disappeared the day he tried to kill President Reagan. If there was a chance that he was innocent then, of course, have a trial and all due process. But he wasn't innocent. There is an article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051231/ap_on_go_ot/hinckley which I found at http://bewarethedarkside.blogspot.com/2005/12/free-pass-from-boobie-hatch.html.

CompSciGuy...

Why have a blog? I'm doing this for a multitude of reasons some profound but most are not. An example of profound reasons for my having a blog can be seen by checking out http://CompSciGuy.blogspot.com. I was thinking in the same vein as this guy and when I tried to register I found the site I was going to create. Which is really cool. Those of you who know me will see the similarities and differences between he and I. So, I had to put some more thought into this whole blog thing. Instead of blogging as some computer science persona, I will blog as myself. I'll write what's going on in my life, jot down my ideas as they come to me, and maybe I'll even post some computer sciency stuff. Mostly I'll just jot down my ideas. This will be my electronic post-a-note board.