Michelle and I just got back from our Mexican Rivera Cruise aboard the magnificent Golden Princess cruise ship!

Heading out of the Los Angeles San Pedro Port heading south we made stops in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas. This was our first cruise on the Pacific coast and certainly won’t be our last. Such different scenery contrasting it to the caribbean cruises we’ve been on.

Prior to our cruise we spent the night on a Los Angeles Bus Tour By Night which took us to see the Graumann’s Chinese Theatre, The Walk of Fame, Rodeo Dr, Sunset and a few really exclusive stars house including the PlayBoy Manson.

Michelle was very star struct as we caught glimpse of Heidi & Spencer from The Hills as well as pop-blog diva Perez Hilton hosting the fashion show launch of Heidi’s new clothing line HeidiWood

All of our pics have been uploaded to our new favorite picture hosting site PhotoBucket available here.

With my web hosting file size quota almost exceeded I felt it was time to start using some of the free photo gallery’s available out there instead of hosting my own. I’ve uploaded our Christmas 2008 cruise pictures aboard the NCL Dawn and Microsoft SharePoint 2008 conference pictures to photobucket.

For easier access I’ve added a link to the right side navigation under pages linking directly to the PhotoBucket gallery.

Michelle and I finally tied the knot April 14th, 2006 in the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. We just got back from our Eastern Carribean honeymoon cruise aboard the Royal Carribean Explorer Of The Seas. After these last couple of busy and exciting weeks, I think we need another week just to recover!

We have posted some pics of our wedding day and the honeymoon to our gallery. More to come as they become available.

W1zzard over at TechPowerUp discovered that the Sapphire X800GTO2 actually has a 480 core (the same one that the X850/XT/PE uses). He also noticed that it comes with 16 pipelines, 4 of which can easily be unlocked with a simple bios upgrade.

With the 100% proven success rate of the mod and with the price being so cheap I had to jump on it.

If you’re interested you can find more details below:

Fatwallet link to deal
W1zzard’s explanation of mod at TechPowerUp
TechPowerUp forum thread with users sucess stories

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Review

This blog (www.derekreynolds.com) will continue to serve just my personal blogging.

Pat Collins today sent me an email talking about an open source Lotus SameTime project called Meanwhile.

The heart of the Meanwhile Project is the Meanwhile library, providing the basic Lotus Sametime session functionality along with the core services; Presence Awareness, Instant Messaging, Multi-user Conferencing, Preferences Storage, Identity Resolution, and File Transfer. This extensible client interface allows additional services to be added to a session at runtime, allowing for simple integration of future service handlers such as the user directory and whiteboard and screen-sharing.

This morning Pat Collins sent me a URL: http://www.flickr.com/groups/74918957@N00/ which took me to a Flickr photo album displaying London Bomb blast coverage. I see better coverage here then I do on CNN…

Change Log:

- Fixed in issue that caused the Multiplayer Browser to become unresponsive.

- Fixed an issue where some game controls were not available to be rebound within the Options menu.

- Fixed an issue with increasing performance degradation on servers.

- Fixed a problem with shader caching on client/host : after the first map in a rotation, shaders would be loaded on the fly during gameplay.

- Fixed a crash with rebinding LMB

- Fixed a problem that caused environment mapping to not appear on reflective surfaces.

- Fixed a crash that happened when a client picks up a kit that doesn’t exist anymore.

- Fixed a problem with AI when the game was paused for a long time: bots would become unresponsive and also shoot more accurately.

- LOD distances tweaked on certain objects.

Official:

ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/pat…patch_v_101.exe
http://www.fileplanet.com/154949/15…d-2-Patch-v1.01
http://dlx.gamespot.com/pc/battlefi…fo_6128592.html

Mirrors:
http://files.42delta.com/bf2/bf2patch_v_101.exe
http://209.172.44.79/e107_files%5cd…patch_v_101.exe
http://205.209.146.140/patch/1-bf2patch_v_101.exe
http://205.209.146.140/patch/2-bf2patch_v_101.exe
http://205.209.146.140/patch/3-bf2patch_v_101.exe
http://205.209.146.140/patch/4-bf2patch_v_101.exe
http://205.209.146.140/patch/5-bf2patch_v_101.exe
http://www.m-e-tech.com/files/bf2patch_v_101.exe