If you have been following me on twitter recently you have seen allot of tweets about and containing #Bacon. Well i have been playing a twitter game to win cash and prizes from Wendys (http://www.wendysrealtime.com/#/real-time) by following @UrBaconMeCrazy on Twitter. Now, on to the topic of the post....

Lick it, Love it, Mail it... From the makers of Bacon Salt and Baconnaise, J&D's isn't kidding when they say everything should taste like bacon: They just announced Mmmvelopes, bacon-flavored envelopes. $6.99 for 25 bacon-flavored #10 envelopes, $14.99 for 3 packs of 25. Proclaiming it as a radical change in 4,000 year-old envelope-flavor technology, they write:

"No longer will envelopes taste like the underside of your car. You can enjoy the taste of delicious bacon instead."

And since it's not real bacon (and vegan), it doesn't even need to be refrigerated.

I had thought it was just a generic word for robot, or the name for the latest phone from Verizon.

Apparently, "DROID" was mentioned once or twice in that "Star Wars" movie and if someone wants to use the term in an official product name, they've got to clear the rights with George and company.

Say you're a phone company like, oh, I don't know, Motorola. Now say that you've got a new Android handset coming out for Verizon and you'd like to call it the Droid. In order to do so, you've got to clear it with Lucasfilm. Now, say, you get permission. All of your ads and such, from here on out, will have to carry fine print that says something to the effect of "DROID" is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its related companies.

So what apps would you want on your Star Wars inspired Droid phone? Here is my short wish list;

• Midichlorian Counter
• Droid Identifer
• Tauntaun Opener
• Trash Compactor Deactivator
• Natalie Portman's Cell Number

Slides from my session "Creating a ColdFusion 9 Virtual Development Environment (VDE)"

can be found Here at Slide Six. Or embedded below;

Photos can also be found at the following links;

• The CFinNC Photos Page
• Liz Frederick's photos on Facebook
• Michael Clayton: http://clayto.org/static/images/cfinnc09/index.html

These are some of my favorites;

• Me #1
• Me #2

About CFinNC

CFinNC, a free conference held October 17-18, 2009, presents topics by internationally known speakers on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR and general web development technologies.

Organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User's Group, associates, and sponsors and held on Centennial Campus at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Free registration included access to all events at CFinNC.

The new TV ad campaign for Windows 7 (Crispin Porter & Bogusky) kicked off this week with a masterpiece of emotional manipulation that brings back Kylie, the precocious 4-year-old girl from the "I'm a PC" series. The slightly lispy Kylie -- who pronounces the product as "Windows Theben" -- is sitting at a table in front of a PC. "My name's Kylie, and I found these happy words all over my dad's computer. . . ." (Uh-oh, I hope dad's been behaving himself with his PC.) The "happy words" are rave reviews for Windows 7 from tech magazines, which Kylie then puts into a slideshow with images of a unicorn, a kitten in marshmallows, a bunny in a straw hat. "Happy words need happy pictures." Uh-huh. We can only assume as the campaign rolls out to the Windows 7 launch date of Oct. 22 that we'll see baby penguins and water-skiing squirrels hawking for the Redmond, Wash., software giant.

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I have finally got my October travel plans set, now i just have to book transportation and lodging.

On Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, the LCROSS spacecraft successfully completed its first Earth-look calibration of its science payload. An additional Earth-look and a moon-look are scheduled for the remainder of the cruise phase of the mission.

During the Earth observations, the spacecraft’s spectrometers were able to detect the signatures of the Earth’s water, ozone, methane, oxygen, carbon dioxide and possibly vegetation.

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Use virtualization software? Check out VirtualBox 2.2.2, which adds some exciting new features:

• Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems. Testing a 64-bit desktop is now much easier thanks to VirtualBox supporting 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts. It’s pretty impressive that this is even possible!
• Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL. Don’t get too excited about 3D acceleration yet. For now only OpenGL on a 32-bit Windows guest is supported. DirectX support is planned, which means that 3D gaming in a VM could become possible.
• New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup. Host interface networking couldn’t be easier in this release. No setup is required on the host or guest!
  
  
   
• OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
• Hypervisor optimizations with signi?cant performance gains for high context switching rates
• Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
• VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
• USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
• Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
• Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
• Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

A recent conversation has been sparked by Raymond Camden with someone who recently asked why conferences can't find that many women speakers. See blog entry here: http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/3/5/Open-Question-Women-speakers-at-conferences

Because of this recent discussion CFUnited has decided to open the call for speakers again for women only. CFUnited has opened up 5 more topic slots starting today (March 9th). Submit on the call for speakers until March 20th. http://callforspeakers.cfconf.org/ CFUnited will post all the choices in a survey on March 23rd and let the community vote again for two weeks.

Currently Dee Sadler is accepted as a speaker, speaking on Hands-on CSS, and Selene Bainum will be added as a speaker soon to a Database Track.