Fill flash with *ist-D

I found an interesting post over in the dpreview forums about fill flash with the *ist-d. Honestly I’m a bit afraid of flash. The pics I do take with it (the built in flash is all I have) are generally the type that people use as examples of why not to use flash. Overly white […]

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Life Assessment Quiz

Mark points to this nifty life assessment quiz. Thankfully this isn’t the standard stupid quiz that you see most of the time. I haven’t taken it yet, so I can’t say how messed up I am. Probably to scared to find out.

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I Feel Old Now

Wow, I do remember this bit of nostaligia (notching floppy disks to create double density disks)! I don’t think I actually owned one, and I think I actually came into the computer world a little bit later than it was needed. I definately remember having to decide which to buy. I remember having to decide

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I’m GMailed!

Well, Boone @ work was nice enough to send me off a GMail invite. The new email service from <a href=”http://google.com’>Google is pretty nifty. GMail invites (it’s a non-public beta) are all the rage, and even though the market has fallen out (they were selling for $15 at one point, down to under $1.00 now),

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Which Way to Vote

Darren says he’s voting green, and gives his reasons for his decision. Personally, I’m still undecided. Lately I’ve been thinking more about Canadian politics, especially after the Leaders Debate a week ago. To help make my decision I decided not to go with the candidate-o-matic and ask my local candidates directly.

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This Can’t Be Good

Hmm….. I’m pretty sure that this can’t be good… Final count is 1248… I’m going to guess that this is $othercoders way of subtly suggesting I get rid of the debug output that gets messages sent from cron 🙂

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Back and Alive

Got back late Sunday night from Edmonton with little (no) fanfair. The weekend was fun and de-stressing, and nice and cool thanks to Darrens houses basement and shaded backyard (compared to the 900 degree temps we’re getting here). The Darren birthday party was fun and I met a couple of folks again, and a couple

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Another Cool PhotoBLOG Site

I found yet another nifty site on my daily dash through about 20 photoblog sites. Orbit 1 Daily Photo is Yet Another site of good photography which will no doubt be added to my list of places to gleam inspiration from. In particular this photo was the one that made me go “holy shit that’s

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Out for the Weekend

Clothes – check Camera – check Toothbrush – check Ticket – electronic, ticketless system, check Passport – check Shorts for hot weather – check Computer – leaving it here because I want to get away from work – No Ok then, all set. Heading to Edmonton for the weekend for Darren’s Birthday (Happy birthday dude!),

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