Monthly Archives: February 2008

A Grand Slam

Posted on 27 February 2008 by tychay

It’s important to listen to feedback from your readers:
Comment on my blog from John:
Lol, what a complete load of bollocks. I can’t believe I wasted my life reading this.
Comment on my blog from “photog”:
“You are not a real photographer, look … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, food and wine, humor | 1 Comment

Lossy RAW compression

Posted on 24 February 2008 by tychay

Thomas Chamberlin asks an interesting question in the Flickr D3 user’s group:
“With the D3 and D300 we are now offered lossless compression, no compression, or compression with loss for RAW files. Nikon says there is no effect on image quality … Continue reading →

Posted in photography | 11 Comments

Why I YUI

Posted on 24 February 2008 by tychay

We use YUI at Tagged because that’s what I chose. We lost a couple front end engineers at Tagged so I’m having to pick up the slack—this means actually having to learn the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) in earnest. So … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | 3 Comments

New camera

Posted on 22 February 2008 by tychay

New camera, lens, and software…

First D3 photo
North Beach, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S
1/15sec @ f/2.8, iso 420, 14mm (14mm)

[There is a jump.]

Posted in Apple Aperture, photography, photos | 14 Comments

Apparently I have a club

Posted on 20 February 2008 by tychay

S—: Hey, Terry. She broke up with me last night.
Me: I didn’t know you were dating someone.
S—: Can I join your Afraid-of-Women club?
Me: You have to be the one to break it off first. It’s like Whac-A-Mole

The Doctrine of Pre-emption … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, society and culture | 7 Comments

Thinking bags

Posted on 20 February 2008 by tychay

I love bags.
I guess it’s not that unusual. Now being a geek with no taste, I’m not very imaginative. But now that my camera is too big to fit in the bbp bags’s Biz bag (which replaced my Mamba booqbag … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, stuff | 16 Comments

Pragmatic bullshit

Posted on 19 February 2008 by tychay

Someone took exception to me saying:
“I have yet to read a good “Pragmatic Programmer Series” book.”
…with the lines:
“I think that’s a bit of a hard knock of the Pragmatic Bookshelf. I’ve had a number of books which I’ve really enjoyed … Continue reading →

Posted in books, PHP, web development, wordplay | 21 Comments

…but you have to know RUBY to be our CTO

Posted on 18 February 2008 by tychay

This popped in my e-mail box just now:
Subject: Anyone know a top Rails programmer for Tech Advisor role
Could be as little as one hour per week? Great opportunity for this person to inherit vp of engineering position once we get … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics, web development | Leave a comment

I found a use for Ruby

Posted on 18 February 2008 by tychay

…a place to send all the people who washed out coding PHP.

I haven’t read this book so I can’t comment, however, I have yet to read a good “Pragmatic Programmer Series” book. The one all the Rails developers jizz over, … Continue reading →

Posted in books, PHP, web development | 15 Comments

Requiem for the Republican Party

Posted on 18 February 2008 by tychay

Last week, the politics of fear ended:
“Because I care so deeply about protecting our country, I take strong offense to your suggestion in recent days that the country will be vulnerable to terrorist attack unless Congress immediately enacts legislation giving … Continue reading →