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24 Oct 2010I live about 10 miles outside of Boston, and probably about 5 miles from all the towers that the Boston stations use. I rarely watch TV, so I opted to not get cable TV. (To the fury of Comcast, FiOS, and RCN, who each send me several advertisements every week.) However, I do want to [...]
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23 Oct 2010I can’t even begin to explain–or even understand for myself–how I got to be reading up on these things, but here are some things I’ve read about recently that I think are fascinating: MagLev Trains, which, instead of having wheels riding on metal rails, levitate on electromagnets. MagLev trains have reached speeds exceeding 300mph. The [...]
In: Photography
22 Oct 2010I’m a big fan of HDR. These days, it’s done by taking a bracketed set of photos and then using software like Photomatix to combine them. I’d like to think that some day I’m going to tell people about this process, and it’s going to sound just as absurd as describing how, once upon a [...]
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19 Oct 2010Seeing if video works? Shot on one of these. The music isn’t my thing, but the video…
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17 Oct 2010I loved Dead Rising. Like, really loved it. So when Dead Rising 2 came out, and I saw that you could combine weapons, I decided to replace my broken Xbox with a new one just to play it. Having had a couple days to play it, I feel compelled to review it: I hate it. [...]
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11 Oct 2010This is reassuring: a good programmer might write about 10 lines of code a day in the long run. I often recognize this in my own work without believing it’s normal. Before I started doing this professionally, and before I learned that you’re supposed to think before you start writing code, I’d have guessed 500-1000 [...]
In: Computers|Materialism
10 Oct 2010At work, I came to be a Mac fan. It’s based on BSD, but adds a much more polished GUI. It’s got a very user-friendly interface, and yet it’s trivial for me to pull up the command line and do “real” things there. So when I decided to build a new desktop, I decided I [...]
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10 Oct 2010I tend to be a Photoshop purist — you can use Photoshop to perform minor technical fixes. Correct white balance, enhance contrast, crop the shot a big tighter. Sometimes I think minor things are okay — in a portrait, it’s okay to clone out a cell tower in the background, or in an artistic landscape [...]
Lately a lot of my work as a web developer has been way at the back-end, and, for whatever reason, it tends to focus heavily on third parties. I spent a while fixing a bizarre intermittent error with our credit card processor, moved on to connecting with Facebook, and am now working on a major [...]