I have had a Canon A510 digital camera for two or three years now.  I love this camera, its pretty fast and the pictures are pretty good.  I am pretty clueless when it comes to photography, my skill level amounts to selecting the preset mode for indoor, outdoor, and kids/pets. The camera has a feature that I had never actually used before the ability to capture small videos.  We were at my son’s baseball game last night and I decided to give it a try.  I got a couple of nice little video’s of him at bat.  I connected my camera to my Mac and imported the photos and videos.  iPhoto showed the videos just like it does the pictures.  It was so quick and easy this kind of thing is why I love my Mac.

Since I had to do this recently I thought I would document it here.  The reports in SQL Server reporting services are stored in the Catalog table of the ReportServer database.  The report name is stored in the Name field the Path field stores the URL path to the report.  So if you wanted to see a group of reports take the first part of the path value and plug it into this URL http://servername/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx?ItemPath=/pathvalue.

I installed the WP-OpenID plugin for WordPress along with the OpenID selector. Now you can use an OpenID url as your identifier for commenting on posts. Now that I am more familiar with OpenID I will be looking for it on other blogs.

I am a web developer I spend a lot of time using web browsers. I primarily use Firefox 2.0.x as my main browser but I spend time in IE 7 and to a lesser degree Safari. Lately I have come to realize that the UI for IE 7 is not the monstrosity I initially took it to be when it first came out. Here is shot of IE 7.

I have found that the user experience of IE 7 is pretty nice. I really like having the reload and stop buttons to the right of the address bar. It makes me wish I could reorder the toolbar in Firefox. I like the compact toolbar in IE 7 and the way it compacts the menus into a button.

What I don’t like about the IE 7 UI is are the tabs.  They take up to much space they are big and ugly.  The current tab doesn’t stand out enough from the other tabs.

I wish that Firefox 3 would have learned something from IE 7 rather than just changing the toolbar graphics and layout slightly.

It looks like Twitter is broken again.  I am not getting updates via the web site or rss.  I have been getting into Twitter more as people I actually know are starting to use it.

My iTrip Mini was unavailable and the place I ordered it from can’t get any more.  I poked around a bit and found another cheap Monster FM transmitter for $10 with free shipping from newegg.  I ordered two of them, one for me and one for my wife.  I really hope they don’t suck.

I attended our local DotNet users group meeting last night. The users group had set our own little Microsoft Launch Event for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008. We had speakers give a presentation on each product and they were all pretty good. Because of the time constraint I didn’t learn anything new about Visual Studio 2008 but I feel like I got at least a basic introduction to both of the other products.

At the end of the meeting everyone got a set of disks with Visual Studio 2008 Standard and at least evaluation copies of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. After they handed those out they held the drawing for the regular user group give aways. Before last night the most I had ever gotten was a yellow water bottle. When they did the drawing my name came up first and I got first pick. I chose Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1. I am looking to build a new PC this year and I wasn’t sure if I would install XP or Vista. Now that I have a free Vista Ultimate I will going with Vista.