The Woodwork

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 JY-HD10U was the first camera in what is now called the HDV video standard.1 The [...]

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?

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 is posted and does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Plaxo.
I suppose when [...]

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 Plaxo account and was met with a pleasant surprise:

Plaxo-AIM signin, originally uploaded by tychay.

The new [...]

Q. What is the difference between Iraq and Vietnam?

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 of making hundreds of builds for your talk. I decided to get a screenshot in [...]

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 hold a man’s criminal record against him, but it should bias your opinions. I mean [...]

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 tripods and heads, I’m currently a Gitzo/Really Right Stuff guy. On a quick skim it [...]

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, but I think that this is a bad idea.

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 I think that people tend to get caught up in the excitement of the event—it [...]