Huffpost mentions that the Governator doesn’t have a motorcycle license. Am I the only person who dislikes Arnold Schwarzenegger being Governer of my state who doesn’t understand the political importance of this? Is this a felony or something? Sounds to me that he was just being stupid.
Moritz Petersen took this wonderful photograph on Flickr: “sunny blossom” by mortiz™ This sparked a discussion on C.A.F.E. on how he managed to get the wonderful star pattern on his night shot.
Someone asked on Flickr if they should delete their camera raw files after converting to Adobe DNGs. Certainly you can see a strong pressure from Adobe to do so in order to save some hard drive space. I don’t.
Drew mentioned that Apple released an update to Aperture. This is probably the first of many though don’t expect anything major: White balance adjustment accuracy and performance Image export quality Book and print ordering reliability Auto-stacking performance Custom paper size handling Aperture depends on the ImageIO Framework to do the file handling and Core Image […]
It is sad that I have to resort to foreign outlets to be able to read a writeup of Iraq’s elections that is free of pundit sound-bites. That sadness is a different and deeper sort when I read the Independent’s analysis of the Iraqi election. The neo-con justification for the Iraq War has always been […]
Last week, I wanted to create a translucent layer to grey out functionality on the site. To do this, create a div that covers the window and set the background color to black. But how to make it translucent? This webpage on CSS opacity covers how to do this and many other useful things: .grey_background […]
I was looking for the English Nikon D70 manual (all I can seem to find is the Spanish version) and found that this FAQ pointed me to a PDF of the manual downloadable from Nikon Singapore.
The business section of the Merc today has two articles on the front page about HP’s nascent recovery under interim CEO Mark Hurd. So many people base their measure of a person on what they heard about them than the evidence staring them in the face of incompetence of their actions—people’s high opinion of ex-CEO […]
I met Adam Tow only once, briefly at the Apple Store Palo Alto opening in 2001. He was on the roof next door taking photos of it. From what little I know about him, he has three obsessions: Macs, mobile devices and photography. That gives him a special star in my book. So it should […]
In a NYT editorial concerning America’s use of not-so-clever redefining the word “torture” to deny that America uses “extraordinary rendition†and similar tactics to cause de-facto torture: But that doesn’t make it any less disturbing that the United States government seems to have lost its ability to distinguish between acts that may occur sub rosa […]