I’ve been interested in photography at various levels for some time. I dabbled a bit in college with 35mm film but never really got into it, mainly due to cost. Without access to your own darkroom developing film can be an expensive proposition.
I’ve been doing a lot of research about dSLR’s lately in prep to buy myself a dSLR. I figured I’d detail my thoughts from a relative newbie’s perspective. First a little bit on my parameters and intentions.
My budget is roughly $1000, I’m looking for a reasonable advanced camera that I can use as a learning tool. The goal is to learn more about the technology of photography (hopefully dragging the art out of me kicking and screaming) as well as taking better pictures. I’ll mostly be shooting sporting event type activities, (disc golf, kids in the backyard, etc) family stuff, but I do want to do a little bit of artistic photography. Several of the new cameras have HD video as a feature. While this isn’t real important to me, it’s a fun thing to play with.
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Photography, Ramblings, technology canon, dslr, nikon, Photography
I’m on the hunt for a good password manager for the iPhone. But there’s a slight catch. I’m looking for something that works with fedora. I’d like to be able to sync it locally as well. There seem to be couple of things that will sync “to the cloud” but that seems to be a horrible idea for passwords.
Anyone have suggestions?
Ramblings, Sysadminery, technology fedora, iphone, passwords
I’m fairly picky when it comes to how I manage my personal data. I like a fair amount of separation between things but I want everthing accessible. Quite a while ago I moved my domain (for email, etc) over to google apps. I can’t really understand why anyone with less than 3 or 4 thousand users would run their own mail servers, but that is a post for another day. Since I’ve been a user of google apps for a while I’ve been looking for a good way to manage my calendars. I’ve never been totally happy with GoogleCalendar especially when compared with iCal. I’ve used both spanning sync as well as busy sync, but I never got enough use out of them to warrant paying for them. Throw in the addition of my iphone and I just wasn’t happy with how things were setup.
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Ramblings, technology iphone, sync, technology
This guys is a pretty entertaining Astrophysicist, from a psychological standpoint the connection between death and things out of our control is fairly well documented. Mark your calendars!
What it feels like to die in a black hole – Boing Boing.
Ramblings astroid, astrophysics, death, dinosaurs, psychology, video
If you give blood, great keep doing it. If you don’t you should start. 20 minutes, every 8 weeks is not much to ask…
www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013609612
Ramblings blood donor, charity, red cross
