Copyright: If in doubt about whether or not you have permission to use a photo, you likely don’t….
If in doubt about whether or not you have permission to use a photo, you likely don't. Unless the rights…
Geekery
…And Then There Was the Rackspace Saga…
So I mentioned the awful awful awful service we’ve received from SLHost.com. Fahim and I decided that, as soon as…
The SLHost Saga
Fahim and I have had a VPS – virtual private server – with SLHost.com for a while. A year and…
Experimenting with Macros without a Macro Lens
I came across this article on Photojojo about using your existing lens and turning it around to use it as…
Project #365 Day 190 – Splish Splash Take Two
A few days ago, I wrote about a water drop experiment and showed the resulting images . If you’re interested in playing with water drop photography, read this link – it’ll explain one way it can be done. … Since my images turned out rather more, ah, abstract as opposed to nice and crisp, I redid the experiment.
I am the kid in the candy store
I have a Nikon Coolpix S10 with a 10x optical zoom, which, for a point & shoot camera, is great….
An Award For My Little Blog
My so very good friend, Lynn, gave me an award for my blog. Lynn… Ah, our friendship goes back a…
Reviewing Qumana Blog Manager – So far, so good…
Qumana is the latest in a bunch of desktop blogging applications I’m testing, all in an effort to see if…
Post revisions in WordPress
With the duplicate entries I was seeing in Zoundry Raven, I started to wonder if it might be something with…
Report a bug, get… a sales pitch for paid support?
I recently updated Twitter Tools to its latest release, version 2.0, and it stopped working properly. Used to be that,…
Playing with BlogDesk, another desktop blogging application
We’ll see how this one goes. At least it hasn’t crashed yet. 🙂 BlogDesk Version 2.8, build 400 from 22…
RocketPost-powered
I’m running the fully-functional 7 day trial of RocketPost blog software with all features enabled, or so the advertising says….
Taking Raven out for a test drive
It’s official – I’m looking for a desktop blogging application, and Raven is next in line for me to test…
How do I get this Apple keyboard to work?
I mentioned in a previous post that we bought me an Apple aluminum keyboard. Easy keystrokes, kind on my painful…
Taking BlogJet for a test drive
I use a desktop blogging platform for writing my blog entries. It’s something I’ve always done, and was, in fact,…
Poll: If you were holding a pen on the moon…
This is based on an interesting bit I read on a university site. Don’t read the article or the rest…
Making Non-Petroleum Jelly/Lip Balm
I need some kind of non-petroleum jelly-ish substance, something suitable as a heavy-duty moisturizer for Fahim’s scaly feet as well…
Finding Beeswax in Sri Lanka…
Can be interesting. After much discussion and procrastination, on a grocery shopping trip one day, Fahim ran into an Ayurvedic…
Cows, Magnets, and Magnetism
This definitely falls into the bizarre-for-me category of information. <a href=”http://pics.laurieashton.com/2009/20090322-18.jpg”l target=”_blank” ><img src=”http://laurieashton.com/tn/2009/20090322-18.jpg” align=”left” alt=”” /></a>Thanks to <a href=”https://twitter.com/”…
Humans prevented super ice-age?
It hardly seems possible, does it, given all we’re hearing now about global warming, except that what I’ve been learning…
Potentially useful software
AdesClrPicker – capture colour codes from anywhere on your screen. Extremely useful for those times you find the perfect colour…
First-ever photographs of extrasolar planets
You can read about it at SFSignal. Astronomers captured images of three planets around one star (infared picture) and a…
Mind Control!
I’ve got one nitpick with the article. Or, at any rate, one right now. We’ll see if I find more….
Write or Die?
<i><a href=”http://writeordie.com/” target=”_blank”>Write or Die</a></i> is a software application that could be useful to you if you’re a. a writer…
Bionic Eyes
It’s called Bionic Eyes, but really, it doesn’t seem to me at all the same as the bionic eyes that…