Having a bit of free time this evening, I decided to do a bit of photo editing work. In this example, I took one slightly underexposed image + one highly overexposed image of a statue in London, England and combined them into one HDR image. Here you can see the three images, click one each ... Continue Reading
While in London last weekend I stumbled across an interesting laundry detergent alternative called EcoBalls. They are these green UFOish shaped balls with pellets inside. Not hearing of them before and being skeptical, I decided to hold off buying them, especially at £35. Doing a bit of ... Continue Reading
Like certain friends of mine, I love seeing my name online on the web, when used in a positive way of course, and love hearing my name mentioned in conversation when people think I am not listening. Because of this, it’s no surprise when a good friend of mine sent me the following I ... Continue Reading
Recruiters these days never cease to amaze me. I am constantly hit by a barrage of “crap”, and I do mean “crap”, on a regular basis. Take an email I received today, not sure what’s supposed to entice me in this, but here’s the email as sent to me: Since ... Continue Reading
It’s been a long time in the coming, but I have finally updated my website. I’ve still got a couple pieces to finish porting to the new design, namely the photo and code galleries, and a couple things I need to build still but for the most part it’s now live. The main cha ... Continue Reading
Reading an old blog post of a friend today, it reminded me that I hadn’t taken a personality profile in a long time. I’ve never been a fan of personality tests because they are so easily corruptible once you learn the differences between the questions. I’ve found the only ... Continue Reading
This evening I decided to play with a really kewl new app called Fluid. What this app does is allow you to create Site Specific Browsers. One of the first usages which popped into mind was a product I helped develop, Yahoo! Web Messenger. An annoyance of mine with it is that it had to live ... Continue Reading
Well, a day I have been stewing over for a few weeks now is finally upon me. This morning at the pre-dawn hour of 8am, my car goes in to have the wrapping removed. It’s a choice I didn’t make lightly and driving the yodelmobile will be a memory I will cherish for a long time to ... Continue Reading
As many who follow my twitter feed know, I went to SXSW this past weekend flying to Austin, TX on US Airways. Also as evidenced by my tweets from these past couple days, I’ve had a bit of a run in with the TSA. On my departure flight to Phoenix from San Jose, in the process of inspec ... Continue Reading
This year I set a goal for myself of traveling somewhere at least once per month. So far, I am failing miserably at it due to extenuating circumstances, as I haven’t gone anywhere to speak of yet. Now that things are settling back down and progressing a bit, hopefully I can now find ... Continue Reading
