*isteve (a regular in the pentax forums has posted a nice howto entitled the Poor mans guide to post processing. Some good tips on haze removal and noise reduction that I haven’t seen elsewhere so far.
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Well, the plan originally was to sleep in just about as late as I could, slumbering in peace and perfect happiness until my body decided it was time to get up, and then and only then would I slowly surrender sleep and rise up through conciousness, slowly and serenely, until the moment I broke through
Well, not literally, but close. I decided to pump it up a notch today at the gym, a sign of my renewal to eat smaller meals and do more in the gym like I’m supposed to be doing. Put squat (machine, not free) up to 270 from 250 for 15 reps, leg curl to 130
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…. this time on Firefly’s Granny’s computer. Another 9 critical updates to install. Another round with hijcackthis.exe and AVG and ad-aware. Another reboot and install dance. Yay. I’m going to enable the firewall this time, and would love to run with least privilage as Dana has suggested, though not even Microsoft does this. However, I
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A bit of a self-portrait taken today at Barry’s Rose Garden Party with the help of Webdiva and her shiny sunglasses. Cropped and auto-levels and auto-contrast applied. ISO 200 1/90th, F-stop unknown (manual 50mm prime lens used). Egads it’s almost 2am!
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Yet another good points with good tips in the Pentax Talk forums on DPReview. Arn posted a tutorial on Shooting with a P&S. It covers from the basics (carry the camera with you always) to some photoshop tips, and a few other goodies that are sure to interest some, or remind others of things they
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Found a 113mb movie of the upcoming game Brothers In Arms over here. 14 minutes of gameplay footage and commentary from the E3 demo and it looks very very cool. Looks like it’ll be what Call of Duty was to Medal of Honor, but better. You get to control your men, everything is authentic as
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I swear if I ever find the author of spyware or similar evil software I will happily beat him to death with his own mother. I spent two hours tonight cleaning off viruses and spyware and bots off of an ex-coworkers system. This is the one that called a while ago and that I did
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I was playing around with some things last night, including the new SETI@Home client software. I tried to install it a bunch of times, with no luck. I’d click on the installer exe file, but it would just sit there, no splash screen or “unpacking archive” message or anything. I know it worked because I
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There’s too much info in this photography thing, I’m right now in the process of setting up a photography wiki for myself so I can quickly add new information and links without having to clog up this source of cough information with random photo links and other info I really just want to have around
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