A Few Days With XGL

As my computer friends may know, I’m always looking for eye candy. Back in the day I was using Enlightenment (come to think of it I think they are still at the same version number as back in 1999….. smirk), love theming, and if I see a nice looking font/icon theme/whatever I’ll happily grab it

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Some Desktop Eye Candy

Some random desktop eye candy for ya’ll. Got my system running XGL, the latest and greatest in Linux eye candy, allowing all sorts of funky effects. Tonight I found a nice icon set, background, and compiz theme which I thought I’d show off. Yes, for ironic content I used the Vista theme (though it does

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New Lens Added To The List

Saw some sample images from the Pentax DA 10-17mm fisheye zoom today…. looks like a fun lens to play with… under $500 USD as well (ugh)… Still, I’m adding it to the wishlist. There was a review of it in the latest PopPhoto. Apparently there aren’t a lot of fisheye zooms around.

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A Good WW1 Flying Movie?

I’ve always loved WWI planes and related, WWI flying movies such as The Blue Max…. looks like they are seeing if they can do it again with this age’s advanced CGI… I saw a trailer for a new movie called Flyboys, based on a true story (well, technically “inspired by a true story” which means

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Dear States South of BC

Dear America, specifically the states immediately below BC; Thankyou for your gift of the heat wave, it’s a nice gift after the moderately blah weather. However, I don’t want to melt, so please take it back. If possible throw it somewhere that no one will notice 40C temperatures, such as Death Valley. Love, Melting (currently

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Evacuees Complaining

Yesterday I was impressed that the PM was going to send his plane to help evacuate people from Lebanon. Today on the news I hear that some of the first evacuees were complaining about the conditions. These were folks stuffed onto a cruise ship to get them to Cyprus, and I don’t imagine the trip

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Adobe Lightroom Beta for Windows

Talk about just in time. I’ve been loading my 21,000+ images into IDImager, a desktop photo organizing/tagging application after becoming frustrated with the slow speed of Adobe Elements when loaded with said images. After clicking about a million annoying info messages about misplaced somethings-or-others in my PNG images, it finally displayed to me….. An empty

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