Category: Geekery

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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….

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…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,…

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The SLHost Saga

Fahim and I have had a VPS – virtual private server – with SLHost.com for a while….

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Experimenting with Macros without a Macro Lens

I came across this article on Photojojo about using your existing lens and turning it around to…

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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.

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I am the kid in the candy store

I have a Nikon Coolpix S10 with a 10x optical zoom, which, for a point & shoot…

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An Award For My Little Blog

My so very good friend, Lynn, gave me an award for my blog. Lynn… Ah, our friendship…

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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…

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Post revisions in WordPress

With the duplicate entries I was seeing in Zoundry Raven, I started to wonder if it might…

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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…

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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…

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RocketPost-powered

I’m running the fully-functional 7 day trial of RocketPost blog software with all features enabled, or so…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Finding Beeswax in Sri Lanka…

Can be interesting. After much discussion and procrastination, on a grocery shopping trip one day, Fahim ran…

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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…

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Humans prevented super ice-age?

It hardly seems possible, does it, given all we’re hearing now about global warming, except that what…

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Potentially useful software

AdesClrPicker – capture colour codes from anywhere on your screen. Extremely useful for those times you find…

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First-ever photographs of extrasolar planets

You can read about it at SFSignal. Astronomers captured images of three planets around one star (infared…

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Mind Control!

I’ve got one nitpick with the article. Or, at any rate, one right now. We’ll see if…

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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…

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Bionic Eyes

It’s called Bionic Eyes, but really, it doesn’t seem to me at all the same as the…