Photoshop World 2009
Last week, my intern, Jordan, and I went to Boston for Photoshop World 2009. Having never been to one of these conventions I was a little uncertain about what to expect. With that said, I had a great time at the show! I learned a great deal and was able to polish up some of my skills.
On the first day we took a class on wedding photography with David Ziser, which turned out to be more of a class on lighting. Since we are looking to do some of our own wedding photography, we enjoyed the class very much and learned some good things on lighting in churches, etc.
The following days we took various classes on design, motion graphics, and photography. I really enjoyed the classes on motion graphics with Richard Harrington. I haven't used the puppet tool before, and now I want to play with it haha!
For what it's worth, it was a pretty expensive trip to Boston, but hopefully we can get some good use out of the knowledge gained.
ihatestickers.com
I have been working with my team to get ihatestickers.com ready for launch on March 14th. So far, we have been doing a great job at making progress and we are 95% complete, but we keep adding more stickers to the product catalog. I'm pretty excited for the launch and I think our site will be a great source of funny stickers and logos for everyone.
Here is the party flyer:
I was on the news!
Last night, I was on the 6pm news (No, I didn't break any laws) talking about Kirsten Gillabrand and her flip-flop attitude with gun rights.
Windows 7 slower than Vista?
Well I've been working on my article for Windows 7 x64 vs Vista x64 on my new Quad-Core budget PC that I built for some home gaming, and I just started doing the benchmarks for Windows 7 in overclocked form. I must say... I'm extremely surprised that I'm not seeing the same results that everyone else is seeing.
I thought that when I was doing the comparison at stock speeds, I would see a bigger difference once I overclocked, but even now, it is pretty much the same and even slower in some cases.
If I had to take a guess as to what is going on, I'd say that there are still some driver issues to be worked out. The parts are all pretty new parts, but I was able to install all of the drivers in Windows 7 without a problem.
Anyways, it looks like I might end up choosing Vista to run on my home PC. I'm itchin to start playing some CS:S, Crysis and World in Conflict. 
Just finished my HOWTO on Windows 7
Check out the article I just finished... It's a HOWTO on installing and configuring Windows 7 x64 in VMWare Fusion, which is VMWare's workstation product for Mac OS X.
http://www.mikecentola.com/blog/articles/howto-install-windows-7-x64-beta-in-vmware-fusion/
I've had it running on my 8-Core Mac Pro for a little while now
GSG-5
I recently picked up a GSG-5, which is a semi-automatic .22LR rifle, styled like a MP5. I wrote a small article on it over on nyfirearms.com
Check it out:GSG-5 on NY Firearms
Whats up with Chu?
Just wrote an interview over on rspeed.org with Ricky Chu.... check it out!
NY Firearms Articles
I recently wrote two NY Firearms articles....
Check them out and give it a read!
Redline Motorsports Promo
Check out this promo video I made for Redline Motorsports. It is going to be the intro for their new website.
Folding@Home
Folding@Home is a distributed computing application, unlike any of the others. The goal of the project is to understand protein folding, misfolding, and their impact on various cancers and diseases. Scientists speculate that the result of misfolding is what causes diseases like Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and more. The distributed computing application does computations that help the project.
I have been contributing to the project on and off for over 4 years. You can see my personal stats here. I encourage everyone to check it out and give it a shot. The program runs in the background of your computer, doing the calculations with the idle cycles left over within the computer.
In addition to just helping out as an individual, I have started a team for folding. Our team, Technotic Media Folding, has done pretty well over the years. At one point we were about 435th out of over 50000 teams.
If you would like to help our team out, you can go to Folding@Home and download the software for your computer. Once installed, pick a username, and put in 34583 as the team number, and you're good to go!
New Editorial Series
Check out this new editorial series I am writing for www.rspeed.org. It is called Entropy, and the first installment is called motorsports culture. Click the image below and give it a read!
More pics of Jack Valentino!
A couple more pics of Jack! He's getting so big, and yes, he is much cooler than you already. No contest.
Allstar Graphics Website Launch
Finally finished the Allstar Graphics site and launched it yesterday. It incorporates PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Flash, and more. I designed it to be optimized for search engines as well as user friendly. There are some more things I need to update on there, but I think it came out great!
Check it out at www.astargraphics.com