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A Word About Our Sponsors
Unlike some other web admins, I respect your ability to choose to have ads blocked. The ad providers brought them upon themselves by making ads really freakin’ annoying into the mid-2000s. I just want to say that I don’t run any of those kinds of ads on this site. I have an ad for Servint,…
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January Background Calendar
I was reading Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography books when he suggested making a background calendar to get my photos out there. A lot of people at work like to have these types of backgrounds and I follow another photographer/blogger that does the same. Here’s my January 2010 calendar. To make these your background, click on…
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yum upgrade to Fedora 12 (and mini-review)
So I was unable to preupgrade to Fedora 12, even after the latest update. So I did a yum upgrade since I’ve known that to work in the past. As always, I followed the instructions here. It was very fast this time around compared to past upgrades. It only took 2 hours 40 minutes. I…
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Review: openSolaris 2008.11
At work they were asking us to get familiar with openSolaris for a potential future project. I’d played with it a few years ago, so I decided to check out the latest version I had. On of my LXF discs had openSolaris 2008.11 and I figured that while I was checking it out I’d review…
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Preupgrade from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 Attempt 1
A bit more complicated than it should have been. That’s really the lesson here. In fact, it appears not to have worked at all despite about five tries. The first two times I did it 100% with the GUI and had no idea why things were going wrong. The third time I did it on…
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Who do I need to slap upside the head?
Every once in a while, while reading Wikipedia to try and figure out why some show from my childhood isn’t available on DVD, I read that music rights are holding back the DVD. I understand that these shows were created back before DVDs and, therefore, some kind of weird legal loophole is keeping the tv…
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365 Graph
Today I worked on a python program to create a graph of the views of all my photos in my 365 Project set. Here’s the result: (click for full size) I was curious how they stacked up and I wanted to see if I could detect any patterns. Except for a few outliers, they’re mostly…
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A Daily Photo: The Best Present Ever
Kids at Christmas are awesome! Nearly every present that Anthony, Alex, and Lizzie got received a loud, “This is the best present ever! This is all I ever wanted!”
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A Daily Photo: Christmas Scene
My mom usually sets this up under the tree (although never this elaborately). By moving it to a table in the living room she was able to do a really amazing job. Also kudos to Denny who helped her with the landscaping.
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A Daily Photo: Rusy Truck
What is it that intrigues us about rusty cars? On flickr there are hundreds, if not thousands, of such photos. I also see them in books. I think it’s partly because of the colours, partly because it reminds us of our own mortality, and perhaps partly leftover cultural hatred of machines.
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A Daily Photo: Blue Jay
Another hard bird to photograph. The blue jays are in my yard even less often than the cardinals. And they run away at the slightest move by me. But, once again, patience paid off.
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A Daily Photo: Cold Birds
Dealing with the snow by being inactive as possible.
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A Daily Photo: Cardinal
Ever since I put up the bird feeders (and even before that) I’ve been trying to get good shots of the cardinal. With my Sigma 120-400mm and some patience I was finally able to succeed. These guys are really skittish. If I come outside when I see them, they run away. So I need to…
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A Daily Photo
Rather than pile up my daily photos whenever I forget to post them, I’ll just post them one at a time and build up a stream of photos. I haven’t been in much a textual blogging mood recently. Perhaps that’ll return eventually. Whenever I’m in Oahu, I love eating at this ramen joint. If your…
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Review: Slackware 13.0
Even though I gave up on reviewing Linux distros a while back, I keep getting mountains of hits on here for people who who want Linux reviews. Since my Slackware 12.2 review was the second-most commented post on this blog, I decided it was a good distro to revisit. So, when Slackware 13 came a…