http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew Just another Blogs.n1zyy.com weblog Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:49:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm in fairly creative mood tonight, as evidenced by one (now two) blog postings, the PHP coding I did earlier, and the upload of some 75 random pictures to Facebook. I guess that's what happens when I avoid the work I really should be doing. (Blech, JavaScript.) Anyways, a few days ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/08/09/duck-typing/ Well, perhaps not the second two, but the first for sure -- Olympus and Panasonic have jointly announced the new Micro Four-Thirds format. Basically, they took a standard Four-Thirds sized sensor, shrunk the lens mount, removed some old mechanical fluff holdovers from the film days (mirror and prism), and left ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/08/08/smaller-better-faster/ Anyone attempting to do RAW conversion under Linux (in GIMP, specifically) is probably using DCRaw, as it appears to be the only guy in town. In which case, you owe it to yourself to check out UFRaw -- it's another GIMP plugin that's a much better front-end for DCRaw (read: ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/07/28/doin-it-right/ So we just got word that our offer on a house was accepted by the bank. Now it's time for all the fun stuff! Hopefully it all works out. http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/07/21/fries-with-that/ (The term High-Definition appears to be able to be applied to anything these days, so why not webcams?) For the past few days I've been obsessing watching this webcam over at the Red Rock visitor center, and just now I wrote a quick script to fetch the latest image and update ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/07/16/high-def-webcams/ A lot of people know that OpenSSH's client supports tunneling out of the box. But some don't realize that it also supports tunneled SOCKS out of the box. Here's how to set up a quick SOCKS proxy across an encrypted tunnel: ssh -NfD 8888 user@host The proxy will be on port 8888. ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/07/11/tunnel-to-the-world/ Sometimes, writing good code is really hard. But other times, writing good code is so darn easy you shouldn't even have to think about it. In fact, it shouldn't even be called "good code" -- in these cases there should never be anything else, so we'll just call it "code". For ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/07/10/willfull-ignorance/ I've started trying to train myself to use Google Reader: rather than trying to remember all of the sites that I want to visit each day, and having to visit each one independently, I can go to one place and view them all. Sure, these are all benefits of RSS ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/07/04/disappearing-act/ Not too long ago I was dragged into trying out Twitter. It's interesting -- like a glorified Facebook status; I'm sure they cringe every time someone makes that comparison -- but I didn't really catch on to it. Now I've decided to give Tumblr a try. So far, I like it: ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/07/03/jack-jill/ (The title rhymes, if you didn't notice, assuming you expand the acronym.) Last night I decided that I should finally scrape all of my pictures off my two 4GB cards -- I still don't have my final photo storage solution worked out, so in the meantime I'm never really quite sure ... http://blogs.n1zyy.com/andrew/2008/06/21/recycle-bin-ftw/