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The Ta-da Lists widget is down captain Keegan!
Keegan Jones' (among others) Ta-da Lists Widget is down! The erring widget. I began reusing Ta-da Lists recently when I found out about the iPhone support. It works beautifully. When I think…
Tomorrow’s news
Taken somewhere around 2am while walking in downtown Pittsburgh.
Dolores Park
San Francisco from Dolores Park in July 2007. Another beauty from the iPhone archives.
21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs
Reminders are good. Learning new things is good. So you might look at this list, of 21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs, as either a list of reminders or a list of…
Nope, no marsh to be found
Yesterday I went to shoot photos just off of a highway near my house, a place that I have wanted to shoot for at least a month. Each time I drove by…
Photoshop my friend Andrew
Ok so, the album cover art wasn't real, if you haven't already figured that out. I had a lot of fun for the few minutes it took to put the cover art…
The longest set of directions on Google Maps
The image above is, supposedly, the longest set of driving directions that you can find on Google Maps. Some guy named Alan Taylor has taken the time to figure this out, and…
Andrew Nelson, recording artist
My friend Andrew approached me to do something I've wanted to do for some time; design album cover art. Andrew's new album, gonna scccrrrape you sucka, drops in a couple of months…
Canon Digital Rebel XTi
Finally taking the time to go through each page in the manual. Eliza and I have had this camera since last fall and although I've been using it, I'm just now getting…
Embracing your limitations
In the world of photography there is a mantra that you'll sometimes here about; embracing limitations. It is where, even though you are only equipped with a camera that isn't feature rich…
Please use the suggestion and money boxes
Help expand my echo, echo, echo chamber, please. I try to link to things I find interesting in hopes that you too will find them interesting. However, my view of the world…
Apple’s iPhone takes Flickr top spot among camera phones!
All of the mobile photos you see here on my site are taken with an Apple iPhone and then emailed to my Web site for publishing. It appears that Flickr users are…
Public night at the Astronomical Observatory
Last night Keystone College's Thomas G. Cupillari Astronomical Observatory was open to the public, and so Eliza, Chris, Andrew, and I took the short ride out to take advantage of the exceptionally…
All I know about Moscow, I learned from a book
Sadly, the title of this note, is mostly true. The World's Cities: Moscow. To help quench my perpetual thirst for knowledge about things I know nothing about (the very definition of learning,…
Galaxies Gone Wild!
GGW! Normally that accronym would be reserved for late-night commercials about incredibly inexpensive DVD-sets with future women that will sue Joe Francis. But not this time. This time GGW refers to NASA's…
Jeffrey Zeldman: The vanishing personal site
Jeffery Zeldman on the trend of personal sites, or the one-stop URL for each person's published goods online, going the way of the dinosaur and how more and more people are publishing…
The Mended Spiderweb series
I know it isn't even 10am yet, but lets just call this the "link of the day" shall we? Nina Katchadourian decided, in 1998 no less, to repair broken spiderwebs around the…
Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog's Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty…
Eight new header images!
Just a quick note to say that this site now has a total of nine header images. To see them all, just refresh the page and a new, random header image should…
\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the…
Newton rec
Where I sometimes shoot the rock. It doesn't look like much, but it is always available, free, and never crowded.
Sake!
Date taken: April 28, 2008 Dinner at Mirakuya in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Delicious.
The Ansel Adams Gallery Blog
Ansel Adams, considered one of the best American West photographers, had a studio which is still owned by his family and is named The Ansel Adams Gallery, now has a blog. Still…
The Eliza drink
Since it has no name, that is what I'm going to call it. Either way, it is darned good. Simple. Refreshing. And contains vodka.
Understanding Depth of Field
You know when a photo gradually gets more "blurry" as the distance from the camera increases? That's the Depth of Field. Here is a better way to describe it. "Depth of field…
Regarding writing style when messaging instantly
Some time before the turn of this last century I began to pay much more attention to my writing style in everyday communications. My email correspondence needed more attention to detail, editing, and focus….
Timeframe, a better calendar
Timeframe is "Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.", and is open-source. It is thoroughly impressive, a great implementation, and works best in Safari! Timeframe demo The demonstration (pictured) is by far the best…
Highway growth
Under I-78 between Hellertown and Bethlehem, PA the trees are blooming.
Aurora Borealis in Murmansk
The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is a natural phenomenon worth researching. The hows, whys, and whens are not as stunning as just sitting back and looking at it though. This series…