• Windows 7 and the Vista Marketing Fiasco
  • Cool little things about Microsoft Products
• SharePoint and Office and why these are great together and what does this whole social networking thing offer to business anyway
  • Scripting
  • SharePoint implementation and the unexpected acceleration of adoption
  • Governance why is something so important so difficult?
• Google
  • Some of their recent announcements (OS and wave) What’s hype and what’s not
  • Should anyone be concerned about privacy with Google
  • Dependence on Google as  a single source provider?
• Apple Zealots and the iPhone
  • Why does everyone think that there wasn’t a mobile platform before Apple
  • Security and Viruses
  • Why Apple is great for the industry
• Cloud Distributed Computing – Why the word cloud is so appealing is beyond me and why I avoid it.
• Just cool stuff

I’m planning on writing some longer articles over the next few weeks and a few short blurbs as well.   I want to seriously start writing again and rebuild some communication skills that I haven’t exercised as much as I should recently and see what happens.

I think I’m also going to make an investment is some video equipment to do video blogging like Mike Gannotti.  With more than an hour a day in the car, there’s no reason to waste that time.

I’ll probably highlight some of the blogs I read on a regular basis as well.

This is a a tall order and I hope I’m up for it.   Let’s see what happens

• A high quality stacked dado set
• Cyclone dust collection system like this one or this one
• Larger band saw 14″ w/a 2HP motor
• Shelves, shelves, and more shelves
• An extension table for my JoinTech SawTrain system

As we lived there we cleaned, upgraded and restored many features of the house and over time discovered that the home was significantly older than we had thought.  Although I haven’t dome complete deed and title search on the home I can tell you based on construction and details uncovered during restorations that the home dates back to at least 1816, but I am sure that the core construction is significantly older than that.  

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• First and best…  17-55m DX + hood. Basically a great “standard lens.” It’s not perfect, but it has enough quality and range and fits the focal lengths between the 12-24mm and 70-200mm reasonably.
• The a decent Tele-Converter the TC-17E. A 1.4x is not enough to really get excited about (that gives me a 100-280 zoom, only 80mm more than normal), while the 2x starts to show visible degradation.
• 12-24mm DX + hood or the Tokina AT-X 124 AF PRO DX. I lile to shoot landscapesa and need wide angle, high quality, and these are the best of the bunch right now.
• Then I want to replace my standard 70-300f4 with the 70-200mm VR f2.8 + hood. The telephoto workhorse. There’s nothing better in this range, though you do need to watch for flare issues.
• 85mm PC just because this is one of the coolest lenses of all time and gives tilt-shift capability when you need it, though not necessarily at the focal length I want that at. An interesting choice for two-shot telephoto panoramas (one shot shifted one way, second shot shifted all the way to the other side).
• 77mm filter stack. Caps on a stack that consists of IR, ND, polarizer, FLD, and CU filters.
• Note that all the filterable lenses in the kit are all 77mm

Goodies

• DR-6 Right angle finder.
• MC-30 remote.
• Extra battery(s)
• A second SB-800 flash and a diffuser
• SC-17 cable for getting flash off camera
• Nikon Coolwalker
• LensPen and microfiber cloth.