Move along now, nothing to see

Nothing too exciting today unless the Kindle Fire forces Apple and the slew of other tablets makers on the market to be more competitive on pricing. Yeah! Go Jeff Bezos! Way to force the other OEM's hands at lowering the ridiculous price of these things! Really who wouldn't want a screaming fast quad, or 8 core tablet. If it will run Flash, Adobe Photoshop and Hash Master animation software, I am in like Flynn!

Bad Blog poster!

Ok. I have been a slacker. I have not posted since September of last year. I make a New Year's resolution to get with the program and start posting way more frequently! Be that as it may. I recently started a Word Press Blog.
I was reading online at Yahoo the other day that all IT professionals could benefit from learning Word Press platform, as at some point in their career, they will delve into New Media and Publishing. So hey, what's MORE software to learn? This is what IT Pros do, daily, weekly and monthly. It definitely pays to be better then my competition.

Citizen Mayor-NWFF-Local Sightings festival

Most recently, 10 original songs of mine were included in the Citizen Mayor soundtrack.
These 10 songs include: Land O' Dance, 60's Surf Organ, Island Style, Blu-Bop, Tranced,These Things,Techno-ish, Tre Trip Hop, Un-Rehearsal, Beats Apogo. All songs were written and performed by: Winston H. Barnard III. Winston works with Hunter Media Productions, & Atlas Productions on collaborative projects. Citizen Mayor will be featured at the North West Film Festival's Local Sightings festival.October 3, 2010 Sunday at 7pm is the world premiere of Citizen Mayor.

Canon's new 3D camera set up

Canon is using a set up with 2 of it's XF105s camera's to produce a 3D set to film. This should be pretty nice to have a 3D camera that the average consumer can save up for. Maybe not so spendy as one of these Red Scarlet. With 2 of these, I could be the next hip filmmaker!

Citizen Mayor-Seattle Mayor Race

We just completed Citizen Mayor, a film documentary involving those who ran for mayor, their story's, their positions and what the gubernatorial race was like to run and win and lose. It's a great study in politics, social engineering and also in real life. We helped contribute 5 original songs to the sound track. View Citizen Mayor trailer. Thanks to Atlas Productions for recruiting us for helping and letting us be apart of the crew for Citizen Mayor.

Google will take over

It seems that the Google is poised to take over the world. They plan to sell 55 million Android OS smartphones this year. What it amounts to is to is Android smartphone sales in 2010 are 560% more then 2009! I know where I would like to work! What I really like about being a Gen X baby myself is how embedded we all are with Technology. Even better is having a Gen Y individual tell me and I quote, "Agh, you got a Treo?? That's so 2007!" Here are some fun things to try with an Android phone. Not sure which one I would purchase a Droid X or a Droid Incredible.

If you are a "non-cooperative" DARPA is looking for you

DARPA'S new camera in development can scan your eyes without you even knowing it. Nice 1984, just like Orwell wrote about. Thoughtcrime may be on the rise next, we better watch what we are thinking!

REACT-Tech Enforcement Squad?

Interesting. I came across this earlier today. Tech Police Force."The unit is composed of 30 investigators and prosecutors on loan from local, state and federal agencies in the Bay Area, including the FBI and the Secret Service. These various jurisdictions cover some of the salary costs under their own budgets; the rest of comes from a $2.3-million allotment from the state and Santa Clara County."

-From the LA Times-

By David Sarno and Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times

May 5, 2010

Is there one is these in Seattle because Amazon.com, Microsoft, Boeing, and the Navy are here? What about Boeing? Boeing field is so huge it's like a it's own small City. They have there own police force borrowed from King County Airport Police. What next, cameras in our houses? Thought crime? Orwell definitely had it right in 1984...

BPOS and SaaS

What is up with Microsoft and BPOS? (Business Productivity Online Suite)
It seems it's selling relatively well. Information Week last week had some great articles
about it. As well SaaS seems to have everyone running to the the Cloud Computing bandwagon, which seems inevitable. Ever since Amazon came up with their Cloud offering others have been following suit. Microsoft' s Azure computing platform seems to offer quite a bit.

Aliens exist & you don't want to meet 'em!

According to Stephen Hawking we should not ever meet with Aliens, it would be disastrous. Microsoft Exchange 2007. How many people in the USA alone use this piece of software? Apple is playing nice with VZW and AT&T who will both offer Apple's tablet device this summer? Droid Eris looks alot like an iPhone these days.