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New look and Cloud photo test
I've updated the "theme" of this blog to a new look. Mainly, I wanted to get a wider base width. If you are on a smaller monitor size, sorry…
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Clips of content
There has been an increasing trend of video used for posts on the web recently. Often, this is taking the "embed" code and putting a video…
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Excellence in almost anything tends to amaze
I've said before that even if I'm not into something at all, I pretty much always like seeing examples of excellence in any category. Some…
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Amazon's Kindle iPhone app is pretty good but needs a dictionary
I've only used it a little, but Amazon's Kindle iPhone app is a much better reading experience than I thought it would be. I'll let you know…
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Wikipedia list of Open Source Software
I think the Wikipedia is one of the best things on the internet. I think Free and Open Source Software is one of the best things of our time…
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Sarah Connor
I'm just catching up on some shows and finally watched the first two episodes of " TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES ". They were…
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That Guy In Saving Private Ryan Looks Really Familiar
Spoiler Alert: If you haven't seen "Saving Private Ryan", a minor plot point is referenced below. You've been warned. Also, you are way, way…
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Changing Gas Prices
To get into work each day I pass under I-95 at a fairly major intersection. Like pretty much all such locations there are a bunch of gas…
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Cat's Cradle
Just finished reading my first Kurt Vonnegut Novel, "Cat's Cradle". Pretty quick read and it's was a bit bizarre, but I enjoyed it. I was…
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New Program and Priority Modes
In the good old days of photography, you put in a roll of film and then had two variables that you could change to control exposure, the f…
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Contact Info - In case of an emergency
Here's a good use of technology. Florida has a system in place now where you can go to this page and virtually add emergency contact info to…
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Improvement idea for Wordpress iPhone App
The Wordpess iPhone app is a pretty solid little piece of software. (I'm writing this very post with it.) There are a few key upgrades that…
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Open Source Alt
Happy day. I just found: osalt.com (Open Source Alternative). It has mappings between open source and commercial software so you can…
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Don't Update My Options
It pisses me off when you update a piece of software and it chooses to ignore options that you have set before. I just upgraded the Yahoo…
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From beyond...
I've seen a couple of references to this, but was hesitant to read it. I'm glad I did. It's a post penned by an American Solder who blogs…
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Compound Interest
I like looking at what compound interest can do for me (or anyone else). So, I made a little page with some javascript on it to create a…
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Alien watching the pres
Check out this video of the President and notice the alien reflection in the window pane over his right shoulder. (found via boing boing…
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Hold music should be mutable
I ran into some issues installing the upgrade to Adobe Lightroom that required me to call their Customer Support. My standard operating…
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InfraRecorder
I'm trying a new (to me) open source CD/DVD burning piece of software called " InfraRecorder ". So far, seems pretty nice. I've said before…
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Digital Cameras - A Technical Marvel
Today I shot my first completely digital wedding. I'm still shaking my head a little in disbelief. I'm on my second digital camera body, and…
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DVD Flick
Haven't tried this one yet, but it looks quite nice. A free, open-source piece of windows software that purports to allow you to make a DVD…
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Photo of Stephanie
Did another photo workshop a few weeks ago. Just now getting to the edit stage. Here's one of the first ones of a model named Stephanie. I…
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Next Digital Step
If someone wants to buy me a really expensive present, this would do just fine: http://www.dpreview.com/articles/canoneos5d/ Full of digital…
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AWS Pricing Calculator Save Data Feature Request
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNZacrN2os Quick feature request for the AWS Pricing Calculator : Save the data on the page so…
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Moving the code
I created another blog that I'm going to use for code snippits since few people other than me are likely to be interested in that besides…
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Sept. 11 flight
I flew up to ATL on Tuesday of this week which was Sept. 11. It was a little odd to fly on that day, but by and large I didn't sense any…
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Battlestar
I'm continually impressed with Battlestar Galactica. Don't let the Sci-Fi genra turn you off. It's amazing. And they keep making it better.
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Free Music from download.com
Kick around music.download.com and you can check out some new music. Most artists have at least one full MP3 track that you can download.
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