Sunday, August 28, 2011

MetrO Blog: New York

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MTA New York New long-term disruptions affect subway services in New York (USA), at 225 St (on line 1) and 71 St (on line D).


In addition to the special "works" database, our regular file has also been updated with the changes, available here or through our online update services (including those embedded in recent versions of the MetrO app).

Source: http://metromobile.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-york.html

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

paris breakfasts: Kindle Your Friendships

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Photo by Flora Rocco



My friend Sardi gave me this photo because she thinks I'm consumed with pastry...

I really should put it in a frame...hmmm

Instead of sticking it on top of my stacks and stacks of book...


I have more books than you could shake a stick at. That's what I'm consumed with is BOOKS!




Books support me in so many ways. They even support my laptop...

But if books are my best friends and they are, I'm not very nice to them. I chopp them up like coleslaw. I blow them up at the copy shop. I write in them like crazy with yellow markers. I have to do it. As an artist/illustrator, I'm constantly on the hunt for specific pictures of whatever I'm painting at the moment and my dear friends, books, hold the answers.


I'm not alone in this treacherous act of battering books you know. The NY Public Library used to do it. You could visit The Picture Collection to search out reference shots. You would see all your other illustrator friends pouring over mounted pictures (some ripped out of the finest books I'll have you know). It was quite a social event to go look at torn-out pictures. But that's all changed. The NY Picture Collection is all online, so no more chit chat with fellow artist. Quelle dommage. And there's Google bien sur. I needed pictures of a Roasted Shallot Tart Tatin yesterday et voila! Easy as pie/tarte.


I'm working on Maison Blanc's Fall Menu and I needed tarte au citron reference too.




That was a whole lot easier to solve than the shallot tarte. I just headed down to Payard Bakery. Course if I was in Paris I'd be falling all over tarte citrons on every corner. They're common as lamposts practically...


If I was in Paris I wouldn't have to bring my own supply of lemon zest for the shot either. Just head over to M. Pierre Herme for super zesty lemon tarts.

Back to my dear friends, Books. I'm all over the place today - it must be yesterday's so-called 'earthquake'. I'm wondering if I should break down and finally get a reader..?


I've been flirting with one for quite some time.

Do you LOVE your Kindle?





Wasn't it clever of Amazon to call it the 'Kindle' like you were warming up at a friendly, homey hearth?

If I had a Kindle maybe I wouldn't have to two-time some of my books, buying them first in French and then dumping them for the English versions...


My Little Paris is FINALLY out in the US! Yahoo. I had to order mine from the UK - a fun, fun book. More to come on it.


Along with not having a Kindle, I don't have an iPhone either :(

Shhh...I don't even have a cell/portable(!!!)

Eeek. I'm probably the only one on the planet, but after seeing David Lebovitz post on iPhone Paris Apps I'm thinking. Could I get an iPhone just for the Apps? I'm in love with the Paris Metro App. It could be my new best friend, and I promise to be really, really nice. No chopping or blowing up or two-timing I swear.

Should I or shouldn't I??

Do tell all PBers. Do you have one? Do you love it?

Bonjour Post-Earthquake!














Source: http://parisbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2011/08/kindle-your-friendships.html

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

creativity, musings & such: Bookclub for Six

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For the first time in 4 months we were finally all together for book club at Collette's house! And even though Jana's birthday was in May and Amy's birthday was 2 days before mine in July, we ended up celebrating my birthday with dinner, dessert and gifts.




I should have taken a picture of my plate before I started eating it, but Michelle made a great tri-tip roast, Jenn made gooey red potatoes, Collette provided Shirley's dreamy rolls, and Jana made a spinach salad with a dressing so delicious we wanted to finish it off with a straw! Amy didn't have a food assignment this month because she had just arrived home from vacation an hour before book club started!




After dinner we did some iPhone App talk and phone number swapping. Amy showed me a Paris Metro app she said I should have even though I have no idea when I'll ever get back to Paris. She's going again this fall (for her 5th time)!




For dessert Collette made some tasty chocolate chip bars with salted caramel ice cream and then we put Jenn's wonderful caramel on top of all that, plus Jenn sent me home with a cup of the remaining caramel! I ate some of it in the car on the way home with a spoon.



Mudbound was actually our book for July, but since only Collette, Amy and Jenn were able to get together that month (a first for us) they ended up just having dinner and talking that night and saved the book for this month. Next month's book is The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig, but I just finished reading it (and loved it) last week so I'm ahead for once!




We discussed the book for awhile and all liked the writing and the story. It got a little harsh at the end due to the touchy subject matter (race relations in the South), but 5 of us were fine with it and 1 was not. It made for a good discussion.




At the end of the night they presented me with 2 pedicure gift certificates (woohoo, woohoo, woohoo) and $50 for XPEDEX (they don't have gift cards there) so I can buy the super thick, expensive white cardstock I like to make my photo cards with. Plus they gave me 2 Twix bars...it's wrong how pleasing this is to me, but I never buy them for myself.


**Are you reading anything right now?

Do you buy candy bars for yourself?

Do you have a favorite app?**


Commitment Window Tidbit: I'm kind of in love with the Words with Friends game on my iPhone. Do any of you want to get a game going?


Source: http://jmsmusings.blogspot.com/2011/08/bookclub-for-six.html

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Technicus stultissimus: USB stick became unusable

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Wintoflash Support team

User avatarTry WinToFlash Erase option in Advanced mode. 

If it won't work (or WinToFlash will not be able to Erase the drive) 

use  WinHEX:  open the media (your USB drive)

Tools - open disk - Edit - Fill disk sectors

Fill first ~1000 sectors with 0, replug the USB and try to format it again with Windows.

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Quickly and simply install the program you needs and in no time at all you will find yourself writing essays on Windows and using your USB. The WinToFlash makes the job hassle free for you.

WinToFlash is software for transfer your Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 Setup from CD or DVD to USB in some mouse clicks. This is about you can install your Windows from flash drive or card, HDD, etc. to your computer or netbook.
And this is not all it can do. WinToFlash can transfer your live CD or DVD to USB card, for example, BartPE. After all you can erase your USB media and format it with Windows for everyday use.
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WinToFlash 1 WinToFlash : Transfer your Windows setup from CD or DVD to USB, make a bootable USB installer
WinToFlash is a software for transfer your Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 setup from CD or DVD to USB in some mouse clicks. This is about you can install your Windows from flash drive, USB pen, HDD, etc to your computer or netbook.
And this is not all it can do. WinToFlash can transfer your live CD or DVD to USB card, for example, BartPE. After all you can erase your USB media and format it with Windows for every day use.
WinToFlash 2 WinToFlash : Transfer your Windows setup from CD or DVD to USB, make a bootable USB installer
[ Key Features ]



  • Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 to USB transfer

  • WinPE to USB transfer

  • USB media erasing, full of quick

  • Create the USB drive with emergency boot loader

  • DOS to USB transfer


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  • Disk editor for hard disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM & DVD, ZIP, Smart Media, Compact Flash, ...

  • Native support for FAT12/16/32, exFAT, NTFS, Ext2/3/4, Next3®, CDFS, UDF

  • Built-in interpretation of RAID systems and dynamic disks

  • Various data recovery techniques

  • RAM editor, providing access to physical RAM and other processes' virtual memory

  • Data interpreter, knowing 20 data types

  • Editing data structures using templates (e.g. to repair partition table/boot sector)

  • Concatenating and splitting files, unifying and dividing odd and even bytes/words

  • Analyzing and comparing files

  • Particularly flexible search and replace functions

  • Disk cloning (under DOS with X-Ways Replica)

  • Drive images & backups (optionally compressed or split into 650 MB archives)

  • Programming interface (API) and scripting

  • 256-bit AES encryption, checksums, CRC32, hashes (MD5, SHA-1, ...)

  • Erase (wipe) confidential files securely, hard drive cleansing to protect your privacy

  • Import all clipboard formats, incl. ASCII hex values

  • Convert between binary, hex ASCII, Intel Hex, and Motorola S

  • Character sets: ANSI ASCII, IBM ASCII, EBCDIC, (Unicode)

  • Instant window switching. Printing. Random-number generator.

  • Supports files >4 GB. Very fast. Easy to use. Extensive online help. (more)


Having all the bits and bytes in a computer at your fingertips has become a reality. Try before you buy, as long as you need, for free.

Source: http://tecnicambalandia.blogspot.com/2011/08/usb-stick-became-unusable.html

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