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Photowalking is the act of walking with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things you may find interesting.
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Focus your lens at infinity and the leading edge of the area that is in focus is the hyperfocal point for that lens. Focus on that point instead of infinity and you’ll have the greatest range of focus from infinity back toward your location.
Mike Cohen
Lots of photography links
Thanks to Thomas Hawk, I found lots of great photography links and subscribed to several photography related blogs. One of my new favorites is Stuck in Customs. They do some really amazing HDR photos. I had previously seen their HDR tutorial.
MBP Battery not doing too well
It looks like I need a new battery for my MacBook Pro. It only charges to 98% and according to coconutBattery, it’s only at 73% of the original capacity.
Resetting the SMC and reconditioning the battery several times, both in the MacBook Pro and in a Newer Technology external charger/reconditioner didn’t help at all.
System Profiler confirms the bad news:
links for 2008-05-09
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Thomas Hawk praises LoJack for Laptops.
Enhancements for iPhone FriendFeed app
I just added a few small enhancements to my FriendFeed iPhone app. It now shows only 10 items per page and lets you view more items a page at a time. It also now remembers the login cookie for 30 days or until you log out.
It's over
There’s no way Hillary Clinton can get the nomination, and most of her advisors and top Democrats recognize that. She’s officially entered the “psycho ex-girlfriend” stage. She’s starting to sound delusional when she talks about winning. At this point it’s clearly about her ego, not wanting to do what’s right for the country. The best thing she could do is concede graciously and put her support behind Obama.
VMware 2.0 is a winner
I own both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, although I’ve been using Parallels mainly because VMware had a problem with Visual Studio and shared folders. Parallels did feel nicer running Windows XP, although it slowed down my system pretty badly, even with 4GB RAM.
Even though I was getting disgusted with Parallels’ terrible Linux support and the system slowdowns & freezes, I couldn’t use VMware because I was unable to check out files or download changes from Visual Studio to my shared folder, and Parallels didn’t have that problem. After attempting to get Ubuntu 8.04 and OpenSolaris running in Parallels, I ended up installing VMware Fusion along with it so I could run the latest Ubuntu, which wouldn’t even start in Parallels, while still using Parallels to run Windows.
The VMWare 2.0 beta released today seems to have fixed the problem (mostly). It still shows ‘error 1’ in Visual Studio’s log when I check out files from VSTS, although it actually completes properly. VMware generally seems less hackish than parallels and doesn’t slow down my Mac as much. I can even have two VMs running at the same time with no problem.
links for 2008-05-05
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the place where cultures, people and music meet to produce global sounds with an African vibe!
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What if the answer to Fermi’s paradox is not the absence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, but merely the absence of high technology?
NIN gives away new album as a free download
As a thank you to their fans for their continued support, NIN is giving away the new nine inch nails album free at nin.com. The music is available in several formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. Even better, the music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, allowing anyone to remix or share it for non-commercial use.
I downloaded the MP3 version. While I’m not really a NIN fan, Trent Reznor has earned my highest respect. He may be the only musician who truly understands online music distribution methods. For that reason, I will support all of his efforts.
Trent’s success is important for the entire music industry. By proving that an artist can continue to make music and profit from it without the benefit of a label will only hasten the overdue demise of the big labels. Today’s music labels are nothing more than parasites who claim to support musicians while paying them only a minimal amount as the companies themselves make a huge profit.
With online distribution there’s very little need for physical media. Even an individual artist can set up a web site and distribute his music just as effectively as any platinum-selling band.