I guess I got better being a user, and got my ideas communicated. Here is their new design. What I like is that they have a project management system that generates emails and keeps me up-to-date. It is a great project management tool as well as communication tool that Designing Digitally is using. I really…
Month: November 2007
My Alter Ego
In Second Life, I am Kiriki Tsure. Yes, folks, you need to know that once you pick your name, you can’t change it unless you create a different avatar entirely! You choose your first name, but your last name you need to pick from a list. I didn’t want to be recognized (ROTFL), so I…
The Building has Commenced!
In my SOW (that is Scope of Work), I indicated an “E”-shaped building. I wanted this to represent our District logo we call, “the bug.” The logo represents the three campuses joined by the Mississippi River. The “E” is really backwards and from an aerial view. Here is what my designers came up with —…
Building on the Virtual Campus
Well, today I hired Designing Digitally to give us a jump start on our EICCD Virtual Campus in Second Life. The design team at Designing Digitally is going to design a futuristic building for our main presence, provide a landing point for us and give us a beach to play on! From that point, we will…
Making Cables
Tools of the trade! You will need to have patch cables, crossover cables, and rollover cables in your networking toolkit. Use the EIA/TIA Standards for your ends: 568A White/Green Green White/Orange Blue White/Blue Orange White/Brown Brown 568B White/Orange Orange White/Green Blue White/Blue Green White/Brown Brown ** Note colors are read with the clip of…
Hidden Window
In using my Epson Scanner with the Smart Panel, I seemed to have lost the Scanning window that displays all of my scanned documents. It appears on my Windows Taskbar, but when I click (or Alt-Tab) to switch to it, the cursor flies to the upper left-hand corner of my monitor off the screen! Solution:…
The given assembly name or code base was invalid.
Got this wierd error: Error while trying to run project. Could not load file or assembly…or one of its dependencies. The given assembly name or code base was invalid. Problem solved: There was an apostrophe in the Project name. Removed that — and all fixed!
Time to Tune up your PC
When was the last time you backed up your data, let alone your entire system? What happens if your hard drive crashed tomorrow. How quickly could you recover? Have you considered online backups? offsite backups? any backups? Now is the time to backup your data as if you needed to restore it tomorrow. While I’m…