The Radiant Vista – The Daily Critique – for all your photo critique needs. A quicktime movie of a photo being analyzed and critiqued, very interesting and probably a great aid to better composition.
Radiant Vista Retouching Read Post »
Mike Johnston of the online photographer has a nice post on How to Read a Photographic Book.
Reading Photography Books Read Post »
Slashdot brought up a story called Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful, a note on a blog entry by Cuzimatter on his experiences, both good and bad, with Gentoo Linux. One of his assertions was that Gentoo was too risky for servers: The best way to keep a system stable is to get it working and
Gentoo On The Server Read Post »
I set up a blog for Iambe and decided to play a bit with the WordPress blogging engine and thought it was pretty slick compared to Movable Type and started looking at using it for this Blog. The install of the latest version, WordPress 2.1 was super-easy, unzip, put in the database login information, go
Adventures with WordPress Read Post »
I’m wondering if Darren’s hardware karma has somehow rubbed off a bit on me…. First of all, midway through the day yesterday my mouse scroll partially died. Having no scroll wheel sucks when you are used to it. “OK,” thinks I. “I was thinking about a new mouse anyway, and Firefly will be going by
Odd Hardware Karma (A Tale of Mice and KVMs) Read Post »
Super cool, check out this gallery of Coloured Smoke images. The main site is here, but seems to be down right now.
Gallery of Smoke Pictures Read Post »
One of our cats, Patches, seems to be peeing in the house, not in the litter box. I say seems, though there really is little doubt of it. At christmas when we brought a couple of chairs in for Christmas dinner so family would have somewhere to sit the second we brought them in she
What To Do With a Cat That Pees in the House? Read Post »
Quick wrap up as I just got back from my seven day cruise in Mexico…. Had a great time for the most part, brought back booze (tequila of course) and lots of pictures (downloading from the iPod I borrowed to store them on as we speak). I did not: Get a tattoo Buy a timeshare
Heading out on vacation, so no updates here for a while. I’ll be basking in the sun till next Sunday. I’ll be turning comments off here until I’m back too, cause there’s just too much comment spam to leave it for a week without inadvertantly advertising whatever nastyness is the scam of the day. I
Leavin’ on a Jet Plane (and a Boat!) Read Post »
Wow, woke up this morning with the groggy feeling that I was late because it was lighter outside than normal, when I finally got near a window there was five friggin’ inches of snow! By the time I got to the car and realized it was pretty bad I was already committed. The snow was