Monthly Archives: August 2005

MacAddict’s lowtech product shot setup

Posted on 29 August 2005 by tychay

Product Shot Setup 1, originally uploaded by silverkeys.

Last month, I ran across a gorgeous whiteground product shot from Dave McNally and decided to duplicate his setup when I had an opportunity.
Caitlin has decided to sell her JVC JY-HD10U videocamera. The … Continue reading →

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Verifying secure hash on Mac OS X

Posted on 29 August 2005 by tychay

I decided to upgrade Linux on my dev box this weekend. The upgrade crashed in the middle.
Argh!
The DVD burn was done on my Powerbook and verified fine. Maybe it was a bad download?

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Controlling what Plaxo sends you

Posted on 26 August 2005 by tychay

I added a “Plaxo” category yesterday.
In the event I forget, this applies to everything in this category: The opinions expressed here are the personal opinions of Terry Chay. Content published here is not read or approved by Plaxo before it … Continue reading →

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A new Plaxo log-in

Posted on 24 August 2005 by tychay

The opinions expressed here are the personal opinions of Terry Chay. Content published here is not read or approved by Plaxo before it is posted and does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Plaxo.
Today I signed into my … Continue reading →

Posted in Plaxo, web development | 1 Comment

A joke Blake sent me

Posted on 24 August 2005 by tychay

Q. What is the difference between Iraq and Vietnam?

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Conference Gnomes

Posted on 24 August 2005 by tychay

When I was generating the movies for my OSCON talk, I left in a little easter egg that was too hard to notice. Doing little things like this makes things a little fun when you are bored with the tedium … Continue reading →

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Karma catches up with Jack?

Posted on 22 August 2005 by tychay

Trent is reporting that MacMice has shut down.
I’ve alluded to Jack Campbell’s abusiveness and deceptiveness before. One thing I never understood about the Mac world was their willingness to give this guy the benefit of the doubt. Granted, you shouldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics, Macintosh | 1 Comment

Corporate tutorials

Posted on 20 August 2005 by tychay

D70 Photography Kingdom, originally uploaded by silverkeys.

I noticed on Mark Goldstein’s excellent Photography blog. that Manfrotto launched some online tutorials in conjunction with Web Photo School.
Here are the tutorials.
Though I have been drooling over their monopods and Caitlin uses their … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics, photography | 2 Comments

Xbox 360 dilemma

Posted on 17 August 2005 by tychay

It appears that Microsoft is indeed releasing two Xbox 360 systems. The base system is $300 and the deluxe system is $400.
The addition that drives me nuts is the 20GB hard drive.1 I’ve been saying this for a while now, … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics, computers | 11 Comments

Why I need an “abject stupidity” category

Posted on 16 August 2005 by tychay

So what sort of braintrust in Henrico thought up this clusterfuck?
Here is my favorite quote:
“It’s rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer—and laptop computers that probably have less-than-desirable attributes. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Macintosh, society and culture | 2 Comments