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More Views Than in the Past Few Weeks
I recently posted the photos I took during Dina’s Graduation Party. I then posted the link to Dina’s wall on Facebook. Check out the spike in my views: That’s 1037 views in one day! Thanks guys!
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Dina’s Graduation
A few weeks ago I attended Dina’s Bachelor’s Graduation. After having attended my own as well as Daniel’s, I had some idea of what to expect, but this was the first college graduation I had attended outside of Cornell. (Not counting my dad’s graduation when I was young) I have have come to believe that…
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Review: Ubuntu 9.04
This is going to be the first time I look at a fresh install of Ubuntu in a long while. I first installed Ubuntu quite a while ago and then I just kept distro upgrading from there on. Then I installed Crunch Bang Linux on my laptop. So now I will be testing the installation. …
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Suspension of Disbelief Broken
A few days ago, I saw the heavy boots story on digg and shared it with Dan. To quickly sum up, in case the web page dissapears into the great bit bucket in the sky, a physics major was told by his philosophy TA that the astronauts on the moon didn’t float away because they…
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Review: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Recently I got my fifth lens, the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, Canon’s entry-level nifty fifty lens. This is the cheapest lens Canon makes and, build-wise, it shows. Unlike the other lenses I own (even the kit lens), the 50mm is very plastic-looking and plastic-feeling. So why get this lens? First of all, it only…
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Review: SimplyMepis 8.0
SimplyMepis is a Debian-based distro developed by Warren Woodford who believed that Mandrake Linux was too hard for new users. (Mandrake, now Mandriva, was the Ubuntu of its time). I’ve heard him interviewed a few times on The Linux Link Tech Show and he seems to be of the realist (as opposed to idealist) school…
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Migrating Tomboy to 64bit and Debian 5 Wifi Installation FAIL
I recently finally moved over to my 64bit computer. I’ve been using Fedora 10 64-bit for at least two weeks now. I was having a lot of trouble with migrating my Tomboy data over from the 32-bit install. It wouldn’t start up and the error message was not as helpful as it could have been.…
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Moving: A Photo Essay
The Huge Mess Danielle and I bought our first home near the end of February. We’ve moved many times before – between semesters at Cornell, from Cornell to Tampa, and from Tampa to Baltimore. Now we were finally moving into our own home. And so, for the first time, I decided to thoroughly document our…
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Tutorial: Geo-Tagging Your Photos
Recently I was listening to The Command Line Podcast and the host mentioned one way to help others is to write up a tutorial on your blog whenever you learn a new skill or task. Since the information I needed for geo-tagging my photos was fragmented, I decided to write up a tutorial following my…
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Blog Review: I bring nothing to the table
First mentioned in this post , Dan’s been blogging on this server for just over a year. So how has the blog come along in these 13 months? Very well, I’d say. By the Google search results metric, Dan is doing very well. He’s been driving the bulk of our Google search related traffic with…
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Blog Review: Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog
Jeffrey Friedl and I share a few similarities: we both are computer programmers, love photography, and enjoy blogging. Unlike me, however, Jeff is an expat living in Japan. Also unlike me, he has a great photo blog. Jeff documents his travels throughout the islands of Japan as well as his daily life in his blog. …
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Getting into Geo-Tagging
(I originally wrote most of this on Thursday, 21 May) I can’t explain to you the thrill and excitement I get from geo-tagging my photos. I don’t mean that the thrill is so large as to defy explanation; rather that I can’t articulate what it is about geo-tagging my photos that excites me so much. …
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A pretty short post: Family and Distance
It really sucks that I’m so far from my family. My sole living grandfather, pictured here, is turning 70 this year. Although I’ve always been closer to my mom’s family – I really, really love my grandfather. His humor, which was passed on to my father and which I hope to pass on to my…
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Linux Reviews Coming….
This month’s LXF came with SimplyMepis 8, Zenwalk 6, and PCLinuxOS 2009. As soon as I get moved and the world stops turning upside down I’ll get those posted.
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Starting New Projects
It’s been 16 days now since I started taking part in flickr’s famous 365 Project. Well, flickr has many of them, but the most famous one most people partake in is the one where the photographer takes 1 self-portrait per day for 365 days. The reason for the popularity in the self-portrait 365 project is…