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OK your not going to stop hearing about my new camera for a little while, I just love it!  On my walk this evening I took these shots to give it a test run and I think they turned out pretty well.

Tyler, Wilbur, and I went for our regular walk this evening.  The nice thing about where I live is you can walk out in what some may call a “semi-country” area.  I usually try and bring my camera with me and today I was really happy I did, not to mention it was my new camera.  Usually I see some cows or some birds but today I was walking back by some vineyards and there were three foxes that crossed our path maybe 30-40 yards away.   They aren’t great shots but thanks to the great new zoom on my new camera I was able to zoom in pretty close where before you would have barely been able to see much.  On Wednesday night I saw what I thought was a raccoon in the church parking lot but it ended up being a fox and ironically on my walk this evening I was thinking I wish I had my camera with me that night and 10 minutes later I saw three foxes which was awesome.  I never realized how small foxes are, they aren’t much bigger than a chihuahua.

I am leading a technical communications discussion at CMMA’s Fall Conference in Park City, UT next month to kick-off the Monday session which I am very excited about.  I was asked to participate on a panel about YouTube in the enterprise at the Scottsdale, AZ conference last year and I think I was controversial (or opinionated) enough to keep things interesting so I’m hoping to generate some good discussion at the next meeting as well.  I thought it would be funny to show this video because it demonstrates what can go wrong when people are put in charge of communications who don’t have the right tools to “keep things afloat”.  I’m hoping to post my presentation so others can benefit so stay tuned if interested.  I’m also hoping to have it recorded so I can post it up on my blog but we’ll see if I have rights to do so.  If nothing else I’m sure I can get someone to record it from my camera for me.

Facebook recently purchased FriendFeed and as a result released Tornado, a real-time web framework which powered FriendFeed.  They decided to release the code as an open source project which I was happy about as you can see in the post above.  Upon sending the link to Scott he thought he was quite the funny man with his little note on a demo page. 

The Paraty House by Marcio Kogan Architects

“Paraty House’s two reinforced concrete boxes, sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside of one of the islands of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), like two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast.

The residents arrive by boat. After stepping out onto the sand a metallic bridge positioned over a crystal-lined reflecting pool leads to a set of stairs connecting to the lower volume. This volume contains the living room, kitchen and service area. The continual internal area has a 27m span and huge glass windows to take advantage of the view of the sea.

The same entrance stairs also lead to the upper volume that houses the bedrooms. In the front part of the house, retractile panels of eucalyptus sticks protect the bedrooms from the sun. The areas that face the mountain have small internal patios with zenithal lighting, and use exposed reinforced concrete, which grants a striking texture to the walls.  The entire top of the house is covered with terraces, used as observation decks for the residents, and as a garden for sculptures, medicinal plants and edible herbs.”  >> See more photos here.

Source: http://www.contemporist.com/