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B&H Evenspace Presentation: Travel Photography
So the first B&H Event Space lecture I ever went to was earlier this April in a class about Travel Photography taught by Rudy Winston, an employee of Canon. His lecture was about taking a vacation specifically to get certain photos. In other words this was not about improving your photography while on vacation with…
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Ah, CS Jokes Most Non-CS People Won’t Get
The funny thing is that if you’ve been burned by this in your programming, you’ll find it tragically funny. All kinds of disasters from mundane to NASA-level have ocurred because people didn’t make their variables large enough. Thanks for that reminder, xkcd.
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Super Mini Review: Fedora 10 64-bit
My wife said since she isn’t using the Linux computer I built for her, that I could use it. It has a Intel Core 2 Duo Dual Core chip, so I was pretty excited to try out 64-bit computing to see if there would be any problems. I installed Fedora 10 since I’m used to…
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Blog: Why Cloud Computing isn’t for Everyone
If you read a lot of technology news on the interwebs, it appears as though we will soon all be using cloud computing. No longer will people have hard drives or buy programs. They will lease it all from the cloud. (There are many, many things listed under “cloud computer” from Gmail to Twitter. I…
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Some oddities in Most Viewed Photos of the Day
So I’m looking over yesterday’s most viewed photos and I am seeing pictures that make sense – the baseball pictures I’ve been uploading for the past 3-4 days. And then I see…. I can understand the Inuyasha photo – it’s my most viewed photo for a reason. But why the wedding photo? And then I’m…
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Review: Debian 5: Lenny
Debian…the father and grandfather of many a Linux distro. I think indirectly Debian is probably running on more computers than any other Linux distro. It’s the basis of Ubuntu, Mepis, Xandros, and many others. And many people use Debian where they need a nice, stable distro. The fact that Debian’s stable releases come out every…
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Choosing a Lens
Wednesday I wrote about choosing the right camera. Today I wanted to write about choosing lenses for your dSLR. Just looking at the entire range of lenses available for a Canon EOS camera there are lenses from $89 all the way up to $8,000. You might see two lenses that go from 28-105mm, but one…
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Review: Nova Linux 1.1.2
I recently heard that Cuba had created their own Linux distribution, Nova. Like many other countries with a rocky relationship with the USA (Russia, China, Iran), Cuba is wary of running their entire computer infrastructure on software developed in the USA. As someone of Cuban ancestry, this development piqued my interested and I decided to…
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Choosing the right Camera
What should I buy? I often see many people asking online how to choose the right camera. They are bombarded with all the megapixels and various features on offer and they have no idea what to get. And usually the retailers (Best Buy, Frys, etc) try and get you to buy more camera than you…
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Colbert v Steele in a Rap Battle
It’s been pretty ridiculous recently with Steele claiming to bring Urban cred to the Republican party. I think they feel like they have to have a black guy too. It’s just odd that suddenly after Obama’s President, they have a black chairman. Well, I know that eventually Hulu will pull this clip. But until they…
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We’re back
Mysql database got corrupted so for a while there, the entire blog was out of operation. Fixed it and we’re back.