Oh. That was easy...
I remember trying a couple of years ago to get Flash working on my 64-bit desktop, with not much success. This weekend I thought to myself "Maybe I should give it another go, and throw a couple of...
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Warning: More of Yours Truly in the Offing
One of the drawbacks of being an amateur photographer is that there never is enough opportunity to hone the old skillz. Now I freely admit that I'm married to a woman whose unbridled joy at being at...
View ArticleSearchLight
I mucked around with Custom Search Engines today, and created SearchLight, a mini search-engine restricted to retrieving results from websites about off-camera photographic lighting.Give it a whirl,...
View Article3d Lenses & Focus Correction
This post has been making rounds recently. It's in French, but if you scroll down you'll see a video by a guy from Adobe (speaking English) showing off a prototype compound (as in, insect compound...
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Silicon Valley 5k
The wife and I did the Silicon Valley 5k this morning. Lots of fun, and absolutely perfect weather for running. This was my first 5k, so I was really kicked, and I'm all looking forward to the next...
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Zion: Evening Light
For those of you in the know, I'm spending 3.5 days in Zion National Park as part of a workshop on landscape photography. Today's assignment was to capture the "golden light" of sunset, while playing...
View Articlexkcd @ Google
Randall Munroe (only the creator of one of the best comic strips in the world) gave a talk at Google today. Among the highlights:Guido van Rossum asking him "Do you expect me to fly?" (you'll need to...
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Playing Hookie
I'm going to be on a solo trip to India next week, and consequently will be separated from Her Radiantness on our anniversary.So as a substitute, we decided to take last Friday off to loaf about in San...
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There and Back Again
I was back in Bombay for the holidays which, don't you know, is always a smashing time to visit. Firstly, it's the coolest weather one can expect (clocking in at a marrow-curdling 85F), and secondly,...
View ArticleYour Rights Offline
With the number of violations of photographers' rights making the news these days, this little jewel is worth laminating and stowing away in the wallet.
View ArticleDoubtsourcing
Thanks to Nacho for pointing this out; brand new comic strip awesomeness. And there are only a couple out so far, so you can go back and read all :)
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Dumb Luck
It's a rummy thing.Once in a while, I'll sit back and the realization will dawn that I have this Supreme Being who has chosen to take the plunge off life's dock holding my hand, and I wonder: "How the...
View ArticleB&H Store, NYC
Those near and (even mildly) dear would have heard me wax eloquent about how Fry's Electronics is the ultimate geek's paradise, and how entering the place is like an instant lobotomy of all...
View ArticleJoe McNally @ Google
The awesome Joe McNally spoke at Google last week. Of course, I missed it since I was in NYC, but we do have the video up on YouTube:
View ArticleLike Hot Cakes
They're sold out!Just as I thought when he mentioned that he had only 1000 copies ready to push out, David Hobby's much anticipated Strobist Lighting Seminar DVD set is all gone. He's busily printing...
View ArticleLight Painting
Someone on the Google photography mailing list sent out a link to lightmark.de, a simply phenomenal example of the technique of light painting.Reverse-engineering some of these pictures is immense fun....
View ArticleReinforcing my general dislike of the population at large...
My camera backpack was just stolen. Right off the luggage trolley as I stood in line to check in. I must've had it out of my sight for just a couple of minutes as I was chatting with Jayita, and we...
View ArticleProtocol Buffers Open-Sourced
One of the very few drawbacks of working at Google is that I can't really talk about any of the frighteningly cool pieces of technology that make us hum.Well, now I can mention one more :)We use these...
View ArticleYoshi's in September
Awesome concerts coming up next month. I'm hitting them all! :)At Yoshi's Oakland:Friday, September 26 - Sunday, September 28Dave Holland Sextet(w. Eric Harland & Robin Eubanks)Tuesday, September...
View Article5 Friends
So *I* can't really vote, but there's gotta be 5 of you out there that can, right? Right?
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Dust Puppy Goodness!!
My copy of Ten Years of UserFriendly.org arrived in the mail today!! 1057 pages of every strip published from 1997-2007.It arrived at the office today morning (where I have all deliveries sent --- ones...
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The Strobist goes to the LHC
Here's the gist of a conversation that went down last October-ish:DH: The Googleplex may have just moved to #2 on my best-ever lighting seminar destinations.Me: (bristling at the insult) How so?DH:...
View ArticleGetting Nexus One's Bluetooth/WiFi to Coexist
Something that's bugged me no end over the last couple of months is that activating my Nexus One's Bluetooth causes its WiFi connection to drop and reconnect every few seconds. Particularly annoying...
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