It was a pretty nice day in Eugene, and I had some time to fiddle with the Nikon D40 some more. I took lots of pictures, and after weeding out the badly exposed or blurry or superfluous shots ended up with a 125-picture gain.
It’s funny to think about the marginal cost of digital photos. […]

Our camera arrived today, and I took it out for a spin. I think we’ll have a lot of fun with this camera. Already we are seeing pictures of much higher quality than we ever got from our smaller snappies. I can’t wait to get the little bounce flash and the 50mm lens!
Here are a […]

Cheryl and I have sported a succession of cute little digicams over the years. My first was a Pentax Optio S40 in 2004. Its lens extension motor failed. Since then we have taken around 13,500 pictures and movies with that camera, and then a Kodak V550 (whose lens motor failed), and then a Leica D-Lux […]

It appears that the Swedish anonymizing VPN called Relakks is dead. The pptp server is totally unresponsive, and the homepage has been replaced by a generic search-and-links page like domain tasters and squatters put up.
The strange thing about this is that I have not been able to find a mention of this event anywhere […]

I was all excited to upgrade my Mac apps last year, and am glad I did, except that the upgrade to iPhoto '08 seems to have broken my Wordpress export plugin. This means I have to do some actual thinking when I want to post pictures…
Wordpress does have some kind of image handling, and initially […]

Apple plans to release the iPhone SDK in February of 2008. They are warning that there is some risk of "viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc." from third-party apps, and say they are working on a way to avoid that problem. I have heard folks speculate that Apple will do this through a developer certification program, […]

I used to have a very nice plugin for iPhoto which would take selected pictures, upload them and a thumbnail to this WordPress blog, write a draft post which would have the html written for those pictures. Alas, that plugin no longer appears as an option in my "export" menu item dialog box since I […]

I have noticed on a few occasions that the iPhone’s camera does some strange stuff when the camera is moving or the subject is moving, and it’s not just blurriness. But this one takes the cake. I was on top of the butte with Elliot yesterday and I wanted a couple shots of us up […]

Just for fun I looked up the specifications for the Mac SE/30 which my father bought for me in late 1989. This was Apple’s most well-equipped computer at the time, I believe. My current Mac was pretty much the top in 2005. This current mac is/has:

Main processor speed: 500 times faster.
Stock Hard […]

Apple’s explanation for the absence of an iPhone SDK seems unsatisfying to me. Here’s Steve Jobs in Newsweek:
“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform. You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.” (link)
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