This Tuesday I bought a whiteboard from Kevin after a long voyage to different Superstores on both of our parts. (Random thought: wouldn’t it be nice to have a stupidity checker? I just wrote that sentence wondering if it made any sense whatsoever and then just kept typing waiting for a squiggly line to indicate to me whether I was being moronic or not…)

Point is I have a whiteboard carefully mounted on my wall. I’ve found that having a large amount of space to just draw, sketch, take notes, and create is quite useful and mind opening. My plan is to not erase the whiteboard until I’ve taken a picture of it, and posted it here under the “Whiteboard of the Week” category. Who knows, things might just get interesting.

So what’s in this week’s whiteboard?

• Front and center is the wintersaurus, the prehistoric creature that will be showing up on your lawn soon if you live towards in the Northernly parts like I do. As you can see there are some tobogganists enjoying their day on his back. (No, not tobacconists)
• Up to we have The Running Man. (No not this one.) This running man started out as just a continuous run, but his persistence was interrupted, and thus it is two arrows. This came to me one morning (probably Wednesday…hump day) when I was feeling rather lethargic and realized that I just had to keep going and eventually the end of the week would come.
• Parachute Man is symbolic of the excellent Coldplay album “Parachutes”. He became tridimensional a few days after I drew him
• Finally our last creature is a bit of a complexity even to me, one which I can only describe as…Windshield Cat. I mean really, what else do you see in that illustration besides that?

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So as I’ve been trying out my new site for a while, I’ve realized that eliminating the jolephoto gallery wasn’t the best idea. Photos are still best viewed in a gallery, not in blog posts. The gallery never really “left” because jole.ca/gallery was still there and it still the place I upload my photos before they’re processed into WordPress.

So the link is back in there, if you’re here for the first time and just want to browse, that’s still the best way, and if you want to get more information, there’s always the blog post about each image. (Heck maybe I can put in a link-back at some point…we’ll see.)

Happy browsing!

If you keep up with the latest processor and hardware technologies you know that 64-bit is the next big thing. For more than 15 years 32-bit has been the architecture of choice for almost all computers and devices, but as the limitations (in particular in the area of RAM) begin to be more apparent, the move to 64-bit becomes more and more important.

One of the problems facing Microsoft is the slow adoption rates of x64 Windows XP and Vista. If you listen to Security Now!, you may have heard of the important security features that x64 Windows brings to the table, and essentially restructuring Windows during this transition. While some people seem to disagree with me, 64-bit Windows just doesn’t seem to be compatible enough for most users, most often running into hardware issues or just plain incompatible software, despite the fact that 32-bit apps are supposed to run just fine in the 64-bit environment.

On the Mac side, things are a bit different. Not necessarily better, but definitely different, and it will be interesting to see how things play out in 2009, as it is suspected that next year will be that of 64-bit Apps (Notably Adobe CS4, and potentially some “legacy” Carbon-coded Apple applications like Final Cut).

AppleInsider has an excellent series on the history, present, and future of 64-bit, that, while focussed primarily on the Mac platform, has an excellent overview of the Windows perspective. Check it out, it’s an excellent read.