stocksfamily.org The web site of Brenda, Campbell & Richard

Just making sure everyone knows... we're still alive and kicking! The reason this site has been quiet of late is we've all been posting on www.pls.net.au, which is set up for the extended family.

As part of a school project, Campbell was using my camera today to take some pictures of the bits and pieces she had been using to make a fire extinguisher. As I do, I loaded the Nikon raw files into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, converting to Adobe's digital negative format at the same time. Imagine my horror when I couldn't convert the images to jpeg.

Turns out it's all my own fault. I upgraded as soon as a new version was released.

I had to kill a few hours in terminal 4 at LAX today, so I went to the lounge to chill out. As American Airlines do, they reminded me on the way in to keep an eye on the monitors as they don't make boarding announcements in the lounge.

Two problems with this:

Over the last couple of days I'd noticed that my Treo 750 kept turning itself on. Switch it off, it comes back straight away. Idle timeout, it turns right back on. It was starting to drive me nuts.

Stumbled over the solution...

The nice folks over at DivX are getting into the spirit of Christmas by giving their DivX Pro bundle away for free (normally US$19.95). For a limited time you grab it from http://www.divx.com/dff/index.php. Instructions on the link. Download and enjoy!

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The yellow marker on the left is where I was off doing some product training in mid November. Yes, life is tough when you have to go to the south of France for training. The blue one shows where my boss and I decided to pop over to Italy for dinner.

Now, for more fun! The whole trip looks something like this:

A sad day for fans with the Triple M network announcing that they have axed Tony Martin's daily show, Get This.  Axing the show makes perfect sense.  I mean, ratings only double while it's on.  Go figure.  Go and download all the podcasts while you can.

Just found this:  http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SaveGetThis.  I doubt it will help, but hey, sign it anwyay!

I've been pretty slack on uploading photos over the last few months.  Campbell's gallery is way out of date.  In an effort to start making up for it, I've uploaded some pics I took in Amsterdam over the weekend.  Check them out at http://photos.stocksfamily.org/travel/netherlands/amsterdam.

When I was teaching a course back in April I fell in love with the "Presenter view" in PowerPoint. For those who haven't see it, it allows for the slides to be displayed on a projector while your laptop screen shows a smaller version along with the speaker notes and other information. Very handy!

As anyone who knows me already knows, I've been a PalmOS user since way back in the days of the original Pilot. Twice now I have attempted to make the switch to Windows Mobile, but I just can't do it.

 The first attempt was a few years back when the XDA II mini was released. At the time I was looking for a single device that would mean I didn't have to carry both a phone and my PDA. The earlier models were just too big for my liking. The XDA II mini was about right size.