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Since I’ve been a lazy bum and not updating the blog, I figured it’s time to get it rolling again.  I got the photo gallery completed and ready to go.  I’ll be uploading photos in large batches on a weekly basis.  I’m starting with some of my older photography, and I’ll move towards the more [...]

I had a couple of great days to take some good photos.  My wife finally took control of the Canon this time around, and she wanted me to be sure to inform the readers that “it’s the most amazing camera she’s ever owned.”  I think she likes it.
Here’s some of the shots from yesterday’s outdoor [...]

Read the Pre-Review first if you want my initial thoughts about this camera.
I’ve been using the Canon T1i extensively over the past week.  At first, I was having a hard time taking decent shots due to lousy weather conditions, but it was a beautiful day today and I finally had a chance to really get down and [...]

EDIT:  See note at bottom
I recently purchased Canon’s latest Digital SLR, the Canon T1i.  After i give it a heavy workout, I’ll post a full review here in the next day or two.  So far I’m loving this camera, and it has definitely lived up to my expectations.   I took it out yesterday for some [...]

At my old job, we did whatever it took to save the company money, and this ended up as extra cash in the employees’ pockets in the form of bonuses.  One way we saved thousands of dollars was to set up a Linux server, and kept our Windows 2003 server simply for file storage.  We installed open [...]

Honestly, I think both sides of the political spectrum have it wrong (one side blaming the other and ignoring the facts).  However, after watching this video, I do have to question the decisions of the Democrats back in 2004 to ignore the corruption going on at Freddie Mac.  The Republicans request to have more regulations [...]

Some of you may recall that a few months ago, I posted naked pictures of Tasha on the forums.
For those of you reading this blog who are unfamiliar with Tasha, she is an AI script that I wrote for Starsiege Tribes.  She answers questions, talks about different things, insults people, and even plays the game.  [...]

I was just reading about a fairly amazing development in GIMP.  If you’re unfamiliar with GIMP, it is an open source graphical editing package similar to Adobe™ Photoshop.  The biggest difference is that GIMP is free, and Photoshop is not.  In comparison, however, Photoshop has always been more powerful with what it could do — [...]

Boring, yes, but there have been quite a few concerns about the new forums that I figured I’d respond to:

We need a quick reply box at the bottom of each topic.

Agreed.  I am going to be adding this.  Unfortunately, this requires some programming so it may take a day or two.

It would be nice to [...]

The migration was successful, but the way Suddenlaunch keeps their posts organized, the script only grabbed the first 20 topics in each forum category.  Bummer…
This means quite a few posts were lost in the transition.  This isn’t a big deal since the old forums are still available, but I was really hoping for a full [...]