“Any site that has got a longer entry on Truthiness than Lutherans has its priorities straight.”
—Steven Colbert, The Colbert Report, The Word: Wikiality
Month: August 2006
Funny lens review
Here is a camera review where I lifted this summary from PhotographyBLOG.
“Bottom line, the Canon 24-105mm f/4 L is a really excellent optic, but one that struggles a bit along the edges and in the corners with full-frame bodies. As such, it’s an almost ideal candidate for use with DxO Optics Pro, particularly if you’re shooting with a full-frame dSLR.”
Translation: “This lens sucks for its intended market.”
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Chimping
Last week, Dave told me about “chimping”.
I am soooo guilty of this.
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A photosynthetic world
Microsoft is working on Microsoft Live Labs photosynth, which sounded like a version of AutoStitch on steroids, but is actually something else entirely.
Quick PHP caching
I received a question today:
I have some quick caching questions. What is the quickest way to get data into a PHP script? I have some data, I could store it in a database, but I want to avoid that dependency and slow down. I want PHP to compile the file into some data that it can access easily in the script’s name space. Periodically (every 1-2 mins) the system will check the modified time on the file, if it is different, it will reload the data.
The data is not large.
Speaking of caching, what is the best script system for caching these days APC?