Archive for August, 2006

Wikiality

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

“Any site that has got a longer entry on Truthiness than Lutherans has its priorities straight.”
—Steven Colbert, The Colbert Report, The Word: Wikiality
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Funny lens review

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

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 [...]

Chimping

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Last week, Dave told me about “chimping”.
I am soooo guilty of this.
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A photosynthetic world

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Microsoft is working on Microsoft Live Labs photosynth, which sounded like a version of AutoStitch on steroids, but is actually something else entirely.
Watch the video. (more…)
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Quick PHP caching

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

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 [...]