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Windows 7 has all kinds of neat perks and tricks that anyone can take advantage of if they know where to look or do to use them.  Since beta, a friend of mine had wrote a few blog posts about Windows 7 and ways to tweak or use it.  You can find him and his rantings here.  I would have linked to every article but it’s better if you actually browse through his site since he has quite a few useful articles on all sorts of things.

The boys over at maximumpc.com have also done something similar about windows 7.  There’s quite a few pages to what they posted but its all good info.  If you haven’t checked these 2 sites out and you have windows 7, then I guess you need to haul click-butt over to them now!

I haven’t had much to post about lately.  It’s been so busy with work and company that I just haven’t had the time for much else.  Next week I should have something to put up on here.  Until then, hang in there!

Well, last Friday I purchased an enchilada lunch plate that was for a little league charity fund raiser and ended up with food poisoning.  It didn’t kick in until 8 or so hours later.  That was one ugly twist of the stomach and body aches all over.  I had to work Saturday and that’s when my symptoms kicked in.  Man, lets just say the toilet gods shined on me since I was the only guy in the building Saturday.  I made so many trips it looked like I was doing drills!  Needless to say, that killed my gut’s appetite for mexican food for awhile.

As fate would have it, I have decided to experiment with facebook.  I have created an account as a means of communicating with some friends that chose to create an account for keeping in touch.  That was an odd line.  Anyways, I’ve never been one for social engineering sites and I didn’t jump on the bandwagon when it passed on by but I’ll take this opportunity to see what I’ll like and dislike about facebook.  Who knows, I might grow to like it or loathe it.

The subject speaks for itself.  That is all!   *wink*

Well, the day was off to a slow start today.  The training pretty much went over what we did the past 2 days as sort of a refresher.  We then dived into the real deal with actual work orders that were completed but still needed posted on the maps.  We got some good hands on examples and turned the training exercise into something productive.  Can’t beat that for experience.

Well, looks like we didn’t do much else today save for the actual linking and labeling of what we drew.  Working with the database software that integrates into autocad is easy since I’ve been using it for practically a year now so linking locations on the map to the database is easy stuff.  Tomorrow is supposed to bring it on with the more advanced stuff.

As a side note, I would’ve never thought I’d be dealing with autocad.  I went into everything computers that I could for my college education and here I am working in an engineering department.  Funny what places life can take you.  I was given a comment today that due to my IT background, I could work just about any job because I can pickup on things a lot faster than most.  Most software behaves the same as the next.  The trick is making each ones functions relate to something you’ve used or done before.

This is a test to see how my old forum avatar looks in my blog site.  I’m not the most artistic person in the world but I personally liked this old pic.  I rendered it years ago with a not so great program but it got the job done.  Plus this gave me the opportunity to post some kind of picture/eye candy.  I haven’t posted a picture in months so I had to break the monotony of my all text posts.  Who knows, I might actually get that gallery up that I wanted to fire up.  What it will contain remains to be seen!    Hah!

Well, today begins our in house training on Autocad 2010. It’s simpler than it looks and I’m actually enjoying toying around with it. The only trouble I had was due to a crappy remote desktop application having an artifact problem. The instant I switched to realvnc(which still kicks ass by the way) everything was fine. I’m looking forward to knowing more about Autocad though. It seems my company has paid someone to train us up on it so I’m going to milk them as much as I can. Doesn’t hurt to get as much info as possible. I like to maximize my learning experience when I can. Especially when someone else is paying for it!

Ok, so I’m slow to post.  I did fix a permissions issue so I can start posting pictures in a much easier fashion.  I hope to add content with some eye candy in the next few weeks so here’s hoping it’s worth reading!