Two on Target

I was at Target the other day, and though I didn’t get anything, I noticed two interesting things. The first was the new Dirt Devil Kone Cordless Hand Vac (which comes in other colors, by the way). Very stylish, but I have no use or space for it. Also, how good is it? Handvacs always […]

More on the megapixel myth

Dave Pogue of the New York Times talks about some fun he had having people on the street compare a 5, 8, and 13 megapixel version of the same photograph. As he predicted, this post gets a lot of people “riled up.” [Some commentary after the jump]

Firefox 2 migration bug

When I migrated from my Powerbook to a Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro and Firefox to Firefox 2, flash stopped working for me in Firefox 2. The solution is rather simple: Quit Firefox and delete ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/pluginsreg.dat and then restart.

A little about Lensbaby

When I get tired of taking the same photos over and over, I put a Lensbaby on the front of my camera. It’s the ultimate “fun” lens: The Baby has arrived! Mountain View, California Nikon D70, Lensbaby 2.0, Tokina .45x macro 1/50 sec @ f/2.0, iso 800, 50mm (75mm) A lot of people stop and […]

Transparent PNGs in Exploder

A friend asked me about getting PNG alpha transparency to work in Internet Explorer. To do this, you should go to this website and save the javascript parts of the “view source” of the page you want into a separate file.

Chicken Breast Dijon

“You tell nice stories, and sorry to hear about your mom.” It’s been almost seven years now, so that didn’t really bother me until a couple hours later, as I was driving home, I realized how much I missed sharing stories with her. I fell into a funk. It is said that Irma Rombauer wrote […]

A body is meant to be seen…

Seen while getting some brandy for my apples… A body is meant to be seen… Safeway, Sunnyvale, California Lumix DMC-LX1 unprocessed raw 1/13 sec @ f/2.8, iso 200, 6.3mm (28mm) “Like the starlet, a bottle of good Merlot is generally soft, sensuous, and uncomplicated—offering the ripe, jammy fullness of a fine Cabernet Sauvingnon without its […]