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Online Logbook The Online Logbook will allow you to: Enter and keep track of all of your workouts online.See a list of your personal world ranking entries.Access your personal pace chart history, comparing workouts of similar distance or time with each other.See weekly and monthly summary statistics as well as total meters and time.Export your log to a text file.See average daily meters since your first piece of the season.Participate in Concept2 online challenges. Sign up for your Online Logbook. The Online World Ranking is where rowers and skiers all over the world: Vladstudio.com - free desktop wallpa Lion - making of This is my first video tutorial ever! Do check out this video first, it shows all 3 hours of drawing in less than 3 minutes, and it's quite funny too :-) If you would like to watch it in real time, download vladstudio_lion_makingof.m4v (256 Mb, 3 hours 12 minutes). Right now, I did not put my voice with commentaries, no time for that (as always!

Jeremy Zawodny's blog February 25, 2010 I'm Blogging Elsewhere posted at 05:20 PM | link | bloglines | technorati I haven't written much here recently. Appsrv.ini Parameters Summary The Appsrv.ini file contains user settings that define application servers and other preferences. Since the 4.20.715 build of the Win32 Client, this file contains information only regarding Custom ICA Connections. For all other versions and builds of the client (for any platform), the Appsrv.ini file contains information regarding all entries in Remote Application Manager. Sample APPSRV.INI Dealing_with_Darwin: Apple, Sony, and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio For innovative offers to create competitive advantage in mature markets, they must clearly and cleanly separate themselves from the crowd. Otherwise customers and consumers are unmotivated to seek out a specific vendor, and commoditization wins out. Engineers call this type of problem managing the signal-to-noise ratio. To optimize that ratio one must simultaneously filter out noise and amplify the signal. When it comes to innovation strategies, most corporations focus on the latter solely and fail to attend to the former.

Disk2vhd Introduction Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted). IT Project Management: Avoiding a Project's Most Threatening Ris Have you ever deviated from your regular driving route because excessive traffic or road construction may have put you at risk of being late for an important appointment? In everyday life, people often modify their personal plans or schedules in order to avoid the unwanted consequences of potential risks. In the same way, project managers are often forced to change or modify their project plans in order to eliminate threatening project risks. As a project manager, you will encounter various risks throughout your project's development. Although you can never prevent every project risk, you should make every attempt to eliminate as many as possible. One risk response strategy that you can use to help you achieve a successful project completion is avoidance.

Excel: Automatically alternate row colors (one shaded, one white Question: How can I set up alternating row colors in Microsoft Excel 2003/XP/2000/97? I don't want to have to change the row colors every time I insert, delete, or move a row. Answer: If you wish to set up alternating row colors in Excel, first highlight the rows that you wish to apply the formatting to. In this example, we've selected all rows in the spreadsheet. Under the Format menu, select Conditional Formatting. When the Conditional Formatting window appears, select "Formula Is" in the drop down.

The Future of Personal Computing ? Every now and then its fun and interesting to try to theorize where personal computing is, and where its going. Its also important strategically for anyone in the digital content business as I am. I thought I would put some things out there and see what people think. The first step is to look to see how most people use their PCs. Email. The Web.