Taking the longer path

As I am the "computer guy" in the family, I was appointed to be incharge of the presentation for my father-in-law 70th birthday.
Well, at least ,in charge of getting 200 picture images into a powerpoint presentation file (in deed a job worthy of my experties).

As i was starting this tedious task i looked online for an automatic solution for my problem that will save me some time, and found this nice post in msdn.

The task, of course, was a small battle of it's own (the code and my machines configuration needed some modifications due to it beeing a sample and not intended to work out of the box).
but, 3 houers (and 5 seconds of runtime) later, after showing the outcome to the "client", she said: "I would had done it faster manually".

well. I think I still like the longer path ... and I'll see what happens on his 80th (assuming I can find the code)

'till next time.

G.