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Les Stroud "Survivorman" Official website

I’m a huge fan of Les Stroud and his “Survivorman” series on The Discovery Channel. I’m not too happy to hear that he won’t be filming any more episodes of the show, but very pleased to hear he’s up to a couple of new things. I’m perhaps most excited to try and catch his special “Off the Grid” that’s premiering on Canada’s OLN.

Snagit of Les Stroud Official website
Snagit of Les Stroud Official website

Les is up to quite a bit more than just surviving these days. He’s active on his website, on twitter and his video blog has a few different videos available now too. He’s also available on Facebook, MySpace and YouTube directly as well.

Les is showing he’s not only comfortable out in the wild, but also cruising along the information superhighway and keeping his fans in touch too.

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Christian the London Lion Reunion

I’m watching a special on Animal Planet about A Lion Named Christian, which is the story behind the viral video that you may have seen as 11 million other people have seen on YouTube.

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A very cool story to watch and connect with that tells so much more than the short video clip you get online. If you can find it again on Animal Planet, I encourage you to watch it. Our family and kids loved it.

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Reviewing Windows 7 Libraries Feature

Reading a PC Magazine article discussing Windows 7 Libraries has caused me to think again about previous thoughts on file management issues in Windows operating systems. A library functions along the lines of logically grouping similar file types together.

Photo from Stock Exchange
Photo from Stock Exchange

This isn’t a massively different way of thinking thatn what we’ve seen before in both Windows XP and Windows Vista with the My Music and My Pictures folders. The different way of looking at this file relationship though is that when you would open your My Music and My Pictures folders you were opening a single folder and looking at a group of files that were more than likely put there be the user.

The new functionality of libraries is that these groups of files exist only at the time they’re really used. When you open a library of files you’re seeing all the files of that type , regardless of where the file is physically located on the drive.

Obviously a better way to organize files is to make it almost mindless for the end-user. In addition there are times when you don’t want to put all of your similar files in the same place on your hard drive. You want to keep files together that are related to each other for a number of other reasons besides the type of file it is.