Recent Expos – Di Chirico and Egypt: Portal to the Heavens

Gotta get back in the expo swing because all the majors are ending in the next 8 weeks or so.
This past week I caught two:
Giorgio di Chirico at Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. It was an interesting expo and rather huge (150 paintings!) with good literature. That being said, it seems [...]

Fun with VMware

Still in the crusade for trying to have a really generic Windows VM image (and in the Win2003R2-32, Win2003R2-64 and Win2008-64 flavors), my thoughts on a methodology. Anyone wish to comment?
Standard Windows install for modular VMware installs:
virtual disk 1 – c:\ drive – windows
1/ Install base OS (Windows 2003 R2 SP2 both 32- and 64-bit [...]

Biographies

I am in a biography phase at the moment. That’s kind of how my reading goes these last couple of years – through phases. There was a Proust phase, a 19th C French classics phase (Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dumas, Maupassant, etc), a 19th/20th C Russian phase (Dostoievsky, Tolstoi, Chekov, Tourginev, Gogol, etc), a Japanese lit [...]