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DCS Ambassadors High School Visit @ Bayview SS

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You Know You’ve Been in Bahen Too Long When…

…you can pinpoint exactly where Bahen is when you’re crusing 2500ft above Toronto

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Backpack To Briefcase: 3 Things

Today, I had the rare opportunity to act as a moderator for one of the Backpack to Briefcase sessions organized by the Arts & Science department.  For those who do not know, the Backpack to Briefcase sessions are “An interdisciplinary learning series that brings together students and alumni in a relaxed setting to share questions, [...]

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Remote Access to CDF via NX server

So apparently there’s a new way to connect to CDF via NX server. Kudos to the CDF admin team for laying out some super-easy steps to set up the connection (the setup was surprisingly pain-free on Vista).  I got everything up and running in a few seconds.  The connection itself starts off a bit slow, [...]

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Synth, Synth Baby!

Someone suggested that we do a “photo tour” of Bahen during the last DCS Ambassadors meeting (this was for the highschool visitation training) , and it got me thinking of an old demo by Microsoft.  They were showcasing a tool called Photosynth, which would stitch together images of a particular location to generate a pseudo-3D [...]

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