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HDR photography

Last year in November, Cassie and I visited Bandelier National Monument (funny story, the native Americans were called Anasazi for many years, turns out this was a derogatory term used by other tribes, dirt people, they now refer to themselves as the Pueblo Indians) while we went to Santa Fe, NM. There I encountered a couple of guys with tripods, Canon SLR digital cameras, and the odd habit of taking three identical photos at a time. I asked them if they were using AEB or Automatic Exposure Bracketing on the Canon, and they said why yes. They introduced me to the fun of High Dynamic Range photography. In this technique, three (or more) different exposures (as far apart as possible, like -2, 0, +2) are used to take the same photo. Then in software (I use Photomatix Pro) the photos are combined to produce some fairly startling effects. The interesting thing is that HDR photography can capture situations where the light and dark areas could not normally be captured in a scene at the same time.

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Enough talk, here’s some examples of my attempts:

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More after the break, or in the gallery

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Canada Loonie = US Dollar

September 20, 2007, the Canadian dollar traded above the US Dollar for a short period. Compare to an all time low in the 62 cent range 5 years ago.

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Now if only the US would invade just one more country, my Canadian assets could be worth a fortune!

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10 things about WordPress 2.3

I’ll be on the new WordPress as soon as it’s finalized, so read on

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The tale of Michael Righi: Papers, Please

Looks like the story of Michael Righi, arrested at a Circuit City in Ohio for failing to show ID, has reached a somewhat happy ending.

Reminds me of this story (this site) and this video.

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Funny linux commands and their results

Check out these priceless geek-jokes.

% got a light?
No match.

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Notepad2 text editor

Wahoo, I found Notepad2. It contains the only two features I really use ALL the time in a text editor: syntax highlighting and UNIX (grep) style regular expressions search and replace.

For those who don’t know about regular expressions search and replace, it allows you to do wacky stuff like swap words, change case, and to pinpoint replacements on a source file, using bits and pieces of what you were “finding” in the “replacement”. Just don’t tell anyone you know how to use it, as it really opens up your ability to process huge input files with ease to do, well, anything.

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Best freeware

Discovered a few I like and didn’t know about:

From Live Slick. The comments actually pointed me to a program I really like Notepad2.

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Awesome error pages

Smashing Magazine has this selection of error pages… I’ll implement one of these shortly…..

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Linux Slug: VOIP & Weather Station

I wanted a silent weather server to run wviewweather on, to go with my new Davis Vantage Pro 2.

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In view of the latest problems Vonage has been having (they are involved with litigation with Nortel, Sprint, Verizon and SunRocket), I decided to go somewhat farther afield to seek out an alternate solution.

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To serve as both servers, I bought ($79 eBay) a tiny Cisco NSLU2 (known to the hacking community as the SLUG), a tiny little linux server (designed just to share USB HDDs), along with a 4 GB USB memory stick ($34 CompUSA). I’ll post details and instructions when I get it all working.