Just taking a break before a couple of fun hours of entering in test data so queries can be tested (weee! oh feel the joy!) and hit the only photography magazine 28mm. In the Botanicals & Butterflies article/exibit there was quite possibly one of the most incrediable butterfly picture I’ve ever seen. Hats off to […]
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Just a quick shout out to the Calgary Flames who won in overtime last night against Detroit. I saw the first and second period, but didn’t see the final. What I did see though, was very intense and very exciting, and both teams looked like they really wanted to win. I hate that Calgary beat
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For future reference: Ed Halley’s GIMP Tutorial on Using Multiple Exposures.
Multiple Exposures and the GIMP Read Post »
While watching a couple of the Longhorn Concept Videos showing off some of the new capabilities of Microsofts next-gen operating system I was quite impressed. Some of the demos had a bit more eye candy that I thought was really reasonable in an app, and the desktop environment looked pretty much like XP with a
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Found a good site with lots of technical data on Lunar Eclipse Photography. There are also some good tips in this dpreview thread. Since my last attempts at photographing the nice full moon failed again (still too long a shutter speed… moon was still washed out…), this is good info. What the rule of thumb
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You know I must have some free evening time if I’m bitching about vbscript again. I’d forgotten how horrible it is, honestly. Read for more bitching.
Dammit, I had a great rant all prepared about what Dan pointed out about the movie trailers on the Apple Trailers page now requiring iTunes, but it seems to have reverted back to the “normal” (movies open in your web browser as expected) except for one “itunes exclusive” trailer. Damn. New Day After Tomorrow trailer
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Finally got around to installing the hard drive coolers that Fred was kind enough to get me and Cat5 was kind enough to drop off last week. After a little scare the other day when this server suddenly shut itself down and wouldn’t boot up without some coaxing (it seemed to freeze when doing stuff
Dishes, garbage, cleaning off my desk, finishing up my accounting to deal with the taxes from the other week, cleaning out my wallet of reciepts, getting computer stuff fixed up, cleaning up some mp3s, sweeping the house, doing some shopping, going for a run, getting my paypal account confirmed so I can get money out,
Productive Weekend Read Post »
No, it’s not mine yet… soon though. There was a thread on the dpreview forums which almost had me writing checks though 🙂 No, these are a store camera that I got my greasy paws on a little tighter today. I hit the local Lense & Shutter, where I’ve been trying to insert myself as