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After further study, what I photographed was an American Mink and not a Fisher. I’ll have to provide an update.
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Adrian (aows) on Photography
Adrian (aows): An imperfect composition, a rather dark or bright image, and less than ideal conditions could be ingredients for a great image. His Instagram account is one of my favorites. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea at first glance, but if you read his FAQ you’ll see what his goal is for […]
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How to enjoy a long winter
Jason Kottke: I decided that because I live in Vermont, there is nothing I can do about it being winter, so it was unhelpful for me to be upset about it. I stopped complaining about it getting cold and dark, I stopped dreading the arrival of snow. I told myself that I just wasn’t going […]
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Two recent modern frustrations: Open an app I had open previously, it opens to its default view rather than where I was. Hit the back button in my browser, the page is no longer the same as it was when I was there. This is a regression of how things used to be.
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An update on how to listen to my podcast Photowalking with Colin
The first few episodes of my new photography podcast have been a learning experience for me. How should I record, edit, distribute these episodes? With each episode I’ve been able to improve that process and make some decisions along the way. Me, on location While I’m hoping to continue to improve the audio quality, the […]
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Richard Bernabe on Twitter
Richard Bernabe, in an otherwise good interview on his photography, says this about Twitter: I like Twitter, even if it does represent both the best and worst the Internet has to offer. If you’re there to argue politics with other humans, it most certainly is a dystopian hellscape that will make your life a dark, […]
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To someone that may not know the context, “Google Open Sources Cardboard” must be a head-scratching headline.
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Following my watching of the Elsa Dorfman doc, I watched Seeing Daylight, which is about Dorothy Bohm. So much inspiration to be found in bodies of work rather than singular images.
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Watched The B-Side, Errol Morris’ doc about Elsa Dorfman and her excellent Polaroid portraits on Netflix. Be sure to see her website.
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CaptionBot
Microsoft: CaptionBot.ai is powered by machine learning technology that identifies and captions your photos. When you upload a photo, it is sent to Microsoft for image analysis to return a caption. We won’t store, publish, or let other people use your images. I uploaded a few images. It works pretty well. I’m unsure of this […]
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.new
Google: With .new, you can help people take action faster. We hope to see .new shortcuts for all the things people frequently do online. For instance, Playlist.new will create a new Spotify playlist for you. Docs.new will create a new Google Doc for you, etc. I don’t think my younger self could have predicted that […]
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I have several blog posts that get thousands of pageviews per week for years running. For the first time, my podcast page is in the top spot. Thanks to all those that have subscribed. More episodes coming. And improved audio too.
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Colin Walker on personal blogging
Colin Walker: Call it an inferiority complex, a belief that my life isn’t interesting as I don’t do that much. But, as Adam says, it’s the ordinary lives, the “random glimpses into humanity” that pique your interest, not just the grand gestures. My favorite blogs tend to be those that are informal, unedited, and reflect […]
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Kentucky Bourbon Trail – October 2019
Kentucky Bourbon Trail – October 2019 Earlier this month we visited Kentucky (just about 18-months since our last visit) with some friends to explore the Kentucky Bourbon Trail again. It was a fantastic week.
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Nick Carver on his photographs
Nick Carver, in an interview by Cody Schultz in early 2018: Certain artworks I’ve seen throughout my life have had a powerful impact on me. When I look at a painting by Kenton Nelson or a sculpture by Michael Heizer, I feel something deep in my psyche that I can’t put words to. I can’t […]
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My podcast has propagated to Overcast – which is likely many iOS users podcatcher of choice. It is interesting how many different ways to consume a podcast there are now and how you sort of have to support them all.
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My podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts! I updated the list of places you can subscribe. More to come this week.
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Photos from the Off to the pub episode of Photowalking with Colin
I’m unsure of the best way to share the photos for each episode of my podcast. But for now, I’ll create a post for each episode that I share photos from. Open to suggestions. Cow line Just one from this episode to share.
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Alastair Humphreys on blogging for 18 years
Alastair Humphreys, adventurer, blogger: I wrote my stories as I cycled around the world and updated my website intermittently whenever I found an internet connection stable enough to send a bunch of text. The screech of dial-up internet and being plunged into darkness by power cuts were regular accompaniments to my early days of blogging. […]
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Thoughts on the Microsoft Surface event
I’m pretty excited for Microsoft. I’ve been excited for what they’ve been doing as a company, on several fronts, for a few years now. I won’t rehash all of the nice things I’ve been writing about them, but I can link to how I feel about Satya, the work they’ve been doing in open source […]
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Today’s Microsoft Surface event was fantastic. I have lots and lots of thoughts but I’ll wait until they refresh their site with more information.
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Audio: Read the manual (again)
Recorded September 30, 2019 Have you already read the manual for a product you own? After you’ve used it for a while, I recommend reading it again.
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This new logo for Sandwich Video was exactly what I needed to see this Friday.
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Auto Draft
Just recovered 15GB of disk space after deleting the expired cache that is built by WP Fastest Cache. I’m starting to think this plugin isn’t the best one to use.
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Cape Cod – September 2019
Cape Cod – September 2019 Eliza, her mother, and I spent the very last few days of Summer in Cape Cod – whale watching, shopping, and barbecuing.
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iPadOS comes out tomorrow. It appears to be an incredible update. Here is an excellent video overview from Christopher Lawley.
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As I’ve done in the past this time of year, I’m taking a social media break. I’m aiming for 60 days but it could be more or less based on my mood. Expect far less here on my blog. But I’ll still be uploading to YouTube.
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Colin Walker on choosing the best devices
Colin Walker nails how I’m making decisions on what hardware I’m purchasing: I’m largely platform agnostic and have always been able to achieve what I wanted regardless of what device I was using. That doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t want to use the best tools for the task at hand. I too am platform […]
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Audio: Publishing to YouTube
Some random banter about publishing on YouTube. Links:
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Android 10 apps that support Dark Theme
Ben Schoon: The majority of Google apps support this system-wide toggle, but few third-party developers have followed the company’s lead. Here are some non-Google apps that support Android 10’s dark mode toggle. He lists a number of apps that support the OS-level option. Outlook claims to support it, but I have it installed and updated […]
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Things about the iPhone 11 Pro that weren’t mentioned in the Keynote
…or, if they were mentioned, they were mentioned only briefly, but I found them to be intriguing. I’ll be pouring over these specs and comparing them to the Google Pixel 4 when it is released before making my final decision. But overall, I’d say this is a very solid update to iPhone.
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Wishes for today’s Apple Event
In my Pixel 4 wish list I may have overstated my current position on my choosing Android or iOS in my next phone. I wrote: As my time to upgrade my phone comes around of course I’m left with a choice to go back to iOS or stick with Android. I’m sticking with Android. I […]
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Audio: Everyone should have a podcast?
I think it is better said; Everyone should be able to have a podcast. Links:
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PowerToys for Windows 10
Windows PowerToys is back! And, it is open source. Brandon LeBlanc: PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Inspired by the Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot provides power users with utilities to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and […]
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Rickett’s Glen Falls Trail – September 2019
Rickett’s Glen Falls Trail – September 2019
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Andy Sylvester on making blogging a priority
Andy Sylvester: The other important part of the habit was making it a priority (I tried writing at lunch before, but ran out of time after web surfing, so I changed the order and – voila – I was able to write!). Writing first works for Andy. It also works for others like Fred Wilson […]
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Supporting OS-level Dark Mode preference using only CSS
My blog’s theme is based on Davis by Anders Norén. I’ve been using it for a while, making small tweaks here and there for my images index and other things. It has a dark theme built-in that I can toggle on and off. But it is an either/or type of thing. I can either have […]
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire […]
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Another bad reason not to blog \”I’m not a web developer\”
Jamie Tanna, in a post about why everyone should have a web site, and it isn’t that you have to be a web developer: Having a website and/or blog is not about being a web developer, nor about being a celebrity of sorts, but is about being a citizen of the Web. Read the entire […]
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