Earlier I showed a pic of my new camera (Nikon D50). I realized I haven't ever shown my old camera (Konica/Minolta G400), so here it is:


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SINCE I AM WORKING ON THE BLOG RIGHT NOW I WILL HOG THE FIRST POST OF THE NEW YEAR

PS: YES I REALIZE THAT IS KIND OF SAD

So I got bored and worked on the Bloggity blog blog theme a bit. Hopefully it's nicer looking now, it took me a while to get everything just so. (Incidentally, the longest part was the magic Javascript to munge the 'post'
s and add the drop shadows. Apparently using replaceChild while you're iterating on the same children doesn't work too well ( Read more... )

You know, Jason's googlebomb is already taking effect. If you search for Carey Tilden, you will find the linked page in the results. It's not the top result yet, but perhaps will be eventually.

I really like digital cameras. I bought a fancy one:


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I did the unthinkable. I modified one of my digital pictures in a destructive way, clobbering the original. Namely, I resized it down to 1024x768. I did it by mistake, due to a brain fart, but it was still maddening. I wanted my original image back.

I succeeded thusly:

• List inodes of surrounding image files (i.e. the ones before and after the ( Read more... )

Last week we started working 10 hour days. The overtime is nice, but 50 hour weeks are wearing. This week we worked 10 hours only 4 days -- on Wednesday it rained, so we only worked 8. But we also worked on Saturday. Thankfully only an 8, but 2 8s and 4 10s is enough for one week. Oh yeah, did I mention I only got 4 hours of sleep Friday night ( Read more... )

Last weekend, Richard prompted me to finally get off my arse and write some code to analyze the Yahoo Buzz markets. Since I am heavily focused on dividends -- perhaps wrongly so, but that's my focus regardless -- I wrote a program that predicts the dividend payout resulting from buying $1000 worth of a stock.

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Justin is playing with these guys as of, I think, about 2 weeks ago. We saw them play at Coffee Depot last night. It was a lot of fun! I even bought their CDs -- they were selling the new one for $10 and the old one for $5, but the old one was free if you bought the new one. So I got both for $10. I have ripped them both to oggs and am listening ( Read more... )

I haven't been doing it. Mainly it's a lack of tuits. I've just been too tired, lazy, and unmotivated.

PS: In case you're one of the people who doesn't know what "tuits" means (which is probably 95% 98.73% of the English-speaking population), it's a neat word used a lot by Perl folks. It's kind of a combination of desire, ability, motivation, and ( Read more... )