US National Archives Joins Flickr Commons
In case you have not heard, the US National Archives has dumped the mother load of photographic treasures on Flickr. Check out the photo stream if you have a few hours to get lost while exploring. You’ll find candids of presidents, work by Ansel Adams and more. This is great, because these free treasures will [...]
Raw Therapee Becomes Free Software
In case you have not heard (this was covered on Slashdot and I’m sure the rest), Raw Therapee is now available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (Version 3 or later). Other than wishing it was GPL V2 or later, I’m really excited about this. Even though I have the option, I [...]
Bracketing Does NOT Mean HDR!
If I see one more photograph of a dirty toilet basin processed via Photomatix with a caption like “Toilet, Bracketed”, I’m going to pop a blood vessel. Bracketing is a safe guard when using something like the zone system (or your own adaptation of the zone system) with film and some digital cameras to ensure [...]
Nikon D40 – Still The Best Value For The Money
I’ve shot a lot of cameras. From 70′s era Minolta SR series, Kodak “Instamatics”, Brownies, cheap and expensive point and shoot digitals and both ends of the spectrum that Nikon offers. Until I can afford a D-300S or Nikon makes something that I actually want in a mid range price, I’m sticking with the D-40. [...]
Its Almost Always The Code, Not The Server
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to deal with people who had their web site compromised who named their hosting server as the weakest link. 99.99% of the time, if your site is defaced or found to link to on-line Viagra vendors, its your fault, not the hosting provider. Usually, this kind [...]
I’ll Leave The Clouds To The Birds
Today marks the third time in one year that I’ve been bitten by someone else’s mistake. I’ve tried several `accounting as a service’ providers and should have learned my lesson after the first bad experience. I appreciate dynamic infrastructure as a service as much as the next person. I love using tools like Xen to [...]
Broken Towels
I try to be tolerant, patient and understanding. I try, very very hard to not let trivial and mundane set backs influence the quality of my over all mood. Today, I have failed. When you purchase something, you have a reasonable expectation that the item will work as advertised. This gets a little sketchy when [...]
On Windows 7 And The NSA
I can not believe how many people complain just to be sure that they have not lost the ability to do so. Recently, there has been growing concern that backdoors may appear in Windows 7, simply because the NSA participated in part of its development. To my knowledge, the only back door in Windows 7 [...]
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