Halfway mark

I was born 35 years ago. My dad was 35 years old at the time. Our time on earth is fleeting. To all of you, I wish you the best day on my birthday today. 🙂

Google and the Desktop

J was working on analyzing some of our website data warehouse statistics today on Excel. M (sarcastically): What are you doing using Excel? You should totally be using Google Spreadsheet for that!

CA-50 and immigration ping

I‘m trying really hard to avoid blogging about politics, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to gloat a bit. In light of the primary election results, I thought I’d ping two of my previous political threads: CA-50 is dead to me and Immigrants are the new gay. Here is a quote taken from a […]

Best Digital Cameras

If you’ve read the photography sections of my blog, you know I’m a big fan of Mark Goldstei’s PhotographyBLOG. He points to an entry today I missed. Mark updates a sort of Buyers’ Guide for the best digital cameras on the market. That’s sort of cool.

Yosemite information

I was supposed to go to Yosemite today but had to cancel. 🙁 Based on discussions on flickr which reminded me about the rockslide in Yosemite blocking 140, I thought others would find this tip useful: It is simply a must to subscribe to Yosemite Blog before your trip out there to supplement your trip. […]

Water power and perpetual motion

Someone at work sent around this link. He asked if it was “for real?” Man, I was so tempted when I saw the Fox News link to engage in ad hominem. But let’s look at it.

I’m Bruce Langdon!

Reading Dassi’s post about the new features in Plaxo’s member e-mails, I noticed something familiar in the corner. Picture of me? Check. My birthdate? Check. Name of person? Bruce Langdon? Well at least I’m not Dan Brown.

Where 2 millimeters makes a difference

In an old article, I mentioned that a Canon 18-55mm at high end isn’t that different than the Nikon 17-70mm kit lens in focal length (reach). My statement was: After all, you can just shoot the Canon at 55mm @ 1.6x and then crop it down to a 6 megapixel photo and it will look […]