Notable Paintings at the Getty Museum

• Head of Christ, 1525-30, by Correggio
• Portrait of a Woman with a Book of Music, 1540s, Bacchiacca
• Irises, 1889, Vincent van Gogh
• Portrait of the...
• Portrait of Princess Leonilla of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 1843, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
• Portrait of Jeanne Kefer, 1885, by Fernand Khnopff
• Landscape with the Castle of Massa di Carrara, 1837, by Leo von Klenze
• Gabriel Bernard de Rieux, 1739-41, by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
• A View of the Grand Canal: Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana from Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, 1740, by Bernardo Bellotto
• Still Life: Tea Set, 1781-83, by Jean-Etienne Liotard
• Demolition of the Chateau of Meudon, 1806, by Hubert Robert
• Christ with the Crown of Thorns, 1636-37, by Guido Reni
• John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and His Family in the Breakfast Room at Compton Verney, 1766, by Johann Zoffany

-Krip

San Diego County Requiring Permit for Home Bible Study

Fox News is reporting that San Diego County has ordered a couple to stop holding bible studies in their home for a small group of friends, without first obtaining a permit costing thousands of dollars.

Hmm, that smacks of first amendment violation to me. Reminds me of 2001 when the little town of Stratton Ohio required permits be obtained before spreading the Word. The Supreme Court had something to say about that in 2002 in an 8 to 1 decision!

-Krip

My favourite movies:

1953: The Glenn Miller Story
1955: Oklahoma! New!
1956: The Ten Commandments
1965: The Sound of Music
1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1993: Jurassic Park
1994: IQ
1997: Dante's Peak
1999: Anna and the King
2000: For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
2001: A Beautiful Mind (A+!)
2001: Lagaan
2004: National Treasure
2005: Cheaper by the Dozen 2
2007: National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
2007: Dan in Real Life New!

-Krip

Categories: Video_

Enabling Single Feed Mode on Sky

If you've got the new menu installed on Sky, you may start to experience intermittent problems where picture doesn't display and message "No satellite signal is being received" message. If you have only one dish input, you need to change a setting and that should solve the problem.

Here are the steps:

• Make sure that the satellite cable is connected to "Dish Input 1" on the back of your Sky+HD box.
• Press services on your Sky remote control. "Options" in the Top Menu will be highlighted in orange.
• Press the right arrow once to highlight "Settings" in the Top Menu.
• Now press the down arrow once to highlight the "Picture" tab in the Middle Menu.
• Press 0, 1, select on your Sky remote in quick succession. The "Setup" tab will then be highlighted within a hidden menu.
• Press the down arrow five times to highlight "Single Feed Mode" at the bottom of the list.
• Press the right arrow once to turn "Single Feed Mode" from "OFF" to "ON." Then press the green button to "Save Settings."
• The "Single Feed Mode - Caution" message will be displayed. Your Sky+HD box is now ready to be rebooted – to do this, press select. Please allow a few minutes for your Sky+HD box to reboot.

Kudos to Sky phone support that solved this problem right away.

Obviously others are experiencing the issue too.

-Krip

Cool Windows 7 Features

http://gizmodo.com/5226696/windows-7-release-candidate-1s-best-surprise-new-features

1. Stream your library over Internet via Windows Media Player

2. XP mode (Virtual PC)

3. Funky backgrounds

Well if you get Virtual PC you can always do #2 but I suppose the free license with Pro, Enterprise, or Ultimate is good news (though not available with Home Premium).

#1 is a cool feature.

-Krip

How To Enter Smiley Face in Blog Entry

To insert a smiley face into your blogger.com blog post, switch to Html mode (click "Edit Html" above and to right of post) and insert the following text:

<span style="font-family:Wingdings;">J</span>

You get this: J

-Krip

Zune HD Built on NVIDIA's Tegra

I've seen NVIDIA's Tegra platform. It's kick butt. Rumour has it that the upcoming Microsoft Zune HD is built on it. Neowin broke the news here. If rumour is to be believed it has everything but a phone.

-Krip