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Standing on the shoulders of giants

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

A colleague of mine once said "We were truly standing on the shoulders of giants. Some of us knew it, some, not so much." That quote is applicable in BACnet committee work as well as anywhere else. When proposals get written and before they're reviewed by the ...

1 Year Later

Friday, August 14th, 2009

One year ago today, I went to UPMC Magee for Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. That day, I weighed 331 pounds. That was after a weight loss of 18 pounds from the day I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes, which means that on that fateful day I weighed 349 ...

Gastric Bypass

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Here's a post I drafted in October of last year.  I had considered it too personal to share here, but considering the outcome I thought it best to get some more information out there.  October 3, 2007 - Wednesday Gastric Bypass -- The Beginning Well, Monday was my first meeting for ...

Creating Panoramic Photos

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

In July of this year, we took a family vacation to Ocean City, MD. We stayed at the Seagate Condominiums on 30th St. On the last day, I took several photos from our balcony using my Canon digital camera. I took them from right to left, moving the camera as close ...

Invasive Adobe Updates

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

I'm a fan of the latest Adobe Readers, starting with version 7. They aren't nearly as slow at startup as their predecessors, and I hadn't seen a need to switch to an alternative like Foxit Reader. Well, until today that is. I was working on some code in VS and out of ...