Future Death

I asked the new "co-pilot" to create me an image of future death and this is what it came up with.

Long Exposure Silver Tone Testing

A few tests with a longer exposure raw file on the Samsung S23, processed using Adobe Photoshop Express Basic Silver.  These are 30 second exposures at ISO 400, after dark, about 8 pm above the 39th parallel.  The above is looking northwesterly, while the shot below is staring straight up.

  

Stories from Vegas

Made it out to Las Vegas for the first time since I was probably 5 years old.  To be perfectly honest, it may very well be the last trip to that world.  I was not all the impressed.  If you do not gamble or drink excessively, what exactly is there for you?

A lot of conferences are held there though, which is what got us into this mess.  Hyland Software and then Microsoft.  Most of the photos are relegated to my other site, in multiple articles.

power platform conferencing (phocas.net)

vegas forum pub quiz (phocas.net)

carly rae jepsen and microsoft (phocas.net)

vegas casino royale style (phocas.net)

thursday mat franco (phocas.net)

a freemont street experience (phocas.net)

closing out at omnia (phocas.net)

cosmopolitan meadows art (phocas.net)

Microsoft lets Everyone edit Everything

When sharing from Microsoft OneDrive, the image above is what it continually defaults to.

There is only one problem, "People in your organization with the link can edit."

Who thought this was a good idea?

The things that I share within my organization are typically shared with very specific people.

I do not want to share these things with the entire organization!

This needs changed.  It is hidden.  It is not obvious.  It creates the potential for disaster with personally identifiable information.

Why should I have to continually click that link to change it to "People I Specify?"

West Chicago and Back

The latest collection of stories comes from a brief encounter with part of the west Chicago suburbs, to include East Dundee, Hoffman Estates, and Schaumburg.  No adventuring occurred beyond that, except on the return trip.

• Part 1:  East into Illinois and Wyoming. Wandering across the central plains of Missouri and Illinois
• Part 2:  Pancakes to Pizza - Loitering about northwestern Chicago suburbs
• Part 3:  Fiddlesticks from Norway - Wandering across the northwest Illinois

This is likely the last of this travelogue style of writing.  A recent journey out to the wasteland of Las Vegas set me to thinking that I need to change things up.  

Stay tuned for more ...