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The last 72 hours have been very intense. My body rhythm is a bit our of whack as a result.

Last week I was working 9:30 or 10:00 AM starts through to around 6PM, breaking for dinner, family, sport, time with Jude, and then recommencing work around 10 or 11PM and working through to 3 or 4 AM before going to bed. This cycle works best for me and my clients both local and international.

However Friday night I worked right though and then went to a clients Saturday all day. By 6PM Saturday night I was cactus and snoozed while babysitting the 3 youngest who had a movie marathon while Jude was out with Miranda at a fancy schmancy ladies thing. When she returned around 9:30 I was half snoozing in the kids bedroom while they were going to sleep. Of course that failed miserably once they heard the door open and their mother come home! Being awake I went back to work until Jude stopped me around 2AM and said “go to bed” in that

What is Photosynth:

Photosynth automatically stitches together your digital photographs to create a three-dimensional image.
It’s sort of like a still movie, perhaps. It’s just one object or location captured, but rather than being limited to capturing it in one photograph, you can take many photographs and capture the whole thing in detailed photos, and then they’re stitched together by Photosynth and you are then able to experience your photos in a very creative and fascinating way. You are able to move around, as if you were turning your head to see more of what’s around you, and zoom in as if you were moving closer towards something. It’s difficult to explain, so I would highly recommend you view some Synths created by others already. I have included some incredible Synths in this article below.

A wonderful thing about Photosynth is that you can download and install it for free. All you need is your Windows Live ID and you’re good to go.

How to use it:

So I need inspiration. I name all the Ps and servers in this place.

We have servers

• MAGE - SBS2003
• APPRENTICE - Server2003
• WAITER - Server2008
• WONDERLAND – Windows Home Server
• PORTCULLIS – Linux Server

Desktops

• CHEETAH (my current machine)
• FLAMENCO
• DRAGON (died and gone to parts bin – to be replaced with MOONBEAM)
• SNAKE
• JADESTAR
• DOLPHN
• BARBIE

Media Center PC

• LIBRARY

Laptops

• SERENITY
• MUSHROOM

The only unimaginative names are the 4 virtual machines we use for remote access and development.

So I need a new name for the PC that is to replace CHEETAH.

My thinking so far includes:

• ZELENKA – baroque musician and composer, and also technician in Stargate Atlantis
• ASSASSIN
• TECHMEISTER
• CYBERNETIC

Please vote in the poll and help me choose!

I am upgrading my PC.

The old one is for sale.

Serious offers from $3000 up will be entertained. Email me tim at spyjournal dot biz or contact me using contact form.

Here are the specs. Note this machine has been running almost without stopping for 22 months.

• CPU - Intel S775 Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core CPU
• Mother board - BFG 680iSLI
• 4Gb of Corsair DDR2 RAM
• Antec 900 - has 3 120mm fans - 2 at front in front of drive bays and 1 at rear, as well as a massive 200mm fan in the top sucking out. the 120mm fans are all illuminated with case power light.
• Video card - BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB PCIe
• Two  Western Digital 10,000 RPM 74Gb Raptor HDD
• Two Western Digital 500Gb HDD
• One Seagate 500GB HDD
• LG DVD Drive
• All in one Card Reader
• Additional Cooling - CPU Zalman CNPS9700 LED CPU Heatsink
• Power supply - Tagan 1100 watt
• Monitors - 2x 22" Viewsonic VX2235WM widescreens
• Logitech G15 Keyboard
• Logitech G7 Mouse

Note the CPU in this is worth $1829 new on its own.