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Utah – it’s not that far anymore!

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

Wow. According to Wikipedia, Utah is not that far from Massachusetts. If it’s where they claim it is (according to the map), I could drive to Provo in six and a half hours. Evidence (in case someone over at Wikipedia notices):

Camera battery status update

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

According to the non-scientific tests done at the office on Monday and Tuesday, I have pretty much determined that the camera energy crisis is due to what seems like faulty batteries. Since I have five batteries of three different brands, all purchased at four different times, I believe that there are only a few things [...]

New Industrial Firefox theme version: Priority text and other nice little things

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

I spent a little while this past evening working on a revision of the Industrial Firefox theme. The quick list of little changes: * Priority text for the back icon (as talked about earlier) – this only takes effect if the widgets are in icon-only mode and also set to the small size * Better [...]

Priority text in Firefox

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

Mike Rhodes sent me email to point out Phil Wilson’s weblog entry concerning priority text in Firefox. It may make sense to actually have the Industrial Firefox theme do this by default if the icons are set to small and “no text”, as other programs in GNOME do this as well, such as Evolution, for [...]

Intelligent RSS/Atom feed reader

Monday, December 6th, 2004

There are a ton of feed readers (supporting RSS and Atom), but none are smart enough yet. The best of the best only go as far as to aggregate and display the lot in one merged stream. Others only provide a multi-stream interface. What I want in the next-gen feed reader is some sort of [...]

Camera problems!

Sunday, December 5th, 2004

I went out to take a few pictures today (right before the sun went down), and noticed that my camera batteries are going from something that seems fully charged to completely empty within a couple minutes. All of my BP-511s were “fully charged” according to my charger. The batteries getting drained issue is basically one [...]

New York: before and after

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

There’s a neat project (by a guy named Douglas Levere) called New York Changing. Basically, he re-photographed areas of New York based on an old bunch of photos. His shots used very similar angles, lighting, equipment, and techniques so that the effects of time on the city could be clearly seen. His work is great; [...]


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