It has been my experience that Browser Helper Objects (BHO) cause the most problems on your computer. The problems are caused by “spyware” that hooks itself into Internet Explorer and then opens pop-ups or slows down your computer whenever you run Internet Explorer.
To check what BHOs you might have installed, you can either use HijackThis! or BHODemon. These both show you a list of all BHOs installed, and then you can choose to remove or “unhook” them. Even if you don’t have any spyware installed, it may be a good idea to run the software now so you know how to use it in case you end up with a problem.
I first read about this in the LangaList newsletter. Someone had emailed Fred and told him about this utility that automatically puts photos together to make it a panoramic photo. Well, it just so happens that yesterday Chris and I were at Brick City in Niagara Falls, and Chris had taken several pictures in order to make it a panorama shot.


I know this example isn’t the best since it is so small, but you can see a lot of duplication between the first and second photo, and slight overlap between the fourth and fifth. The software is able to determine what is in common, blend them together, and make the nice single panoramic shot.
The software is called Autostich. It is still under development, but seems to work exactly as advertised. There is nothing to install… just a zip file you download and extract the executable.
Graham and I walk each day on our lunch break. We walk along Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls, up Murray hill across from the new Fallsview Casino then back down toward Victoria Avenue, one of the main streets for Tourism in Niagara Falls, and back to our jobs on Clifton Hill. The walk is approximately 3.5 km (2.2 miles) and we walk quickly covering this distance in about 35-40 minutes.
The route that we walk can be seen in the image below (enlarge) with our location in reference to Niagara Falls clearly visible. The image is from Google’s latest acquisition, Keyhole.
We have previously mentioned the games at http://www.yetisports.org. They release their 8th game last week with one more scheduled to come. I played YetiSports Jungle Swing once but haven’t really gotten too far into it.
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