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“Pulling Back the Curtain”

NPR’s On the Media recently had a show revealing some of the behind-the-scenes production magic that the network performs. The transcript is an interesting read — and there’s a link to the audio version as well (in RealAudio).

“No picture tells the truth.”

The New York Times has a nice editorial about photography and its use in Journalism entitled No Picture Tells the Truth. The Best Do Better Than That.

Best photos of 2004 (links)

With 2005 just starting, several different websites around the ‘Net have recently posted their end-of-year best photos celebrating last year’s best in photography.Below are a few of the notable sites: Washington Post MSNBC Year of Pictures 2004 Yahoo! News Pictures of the Year 2004 AOL Pictures of the YearIf you...

Fixing family computers

Gina Trapani wrote about fixing her mom’s computer. In my case, it applies to my brothers’ computers, as my mom actually runs Linux.A few days correcting Windows XP’s mistakes — like first not allowing downloads from any application, then secondly accidently eating the partition it resides upon (which had crucial...

The weather up north seems frightful

Down here in Georgia, the weather has been slightly chilly and quite rainy. From what I’ve seen from the Weather Channel and elsewhere, the whole East coast north of this state (from South Carolina on up) has recieved a huge winter storm, however. Lots of ice, sleet, and snow has...

I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas…

The forecast for Cambridge calls for snow this Christmas. I’m not in the Northeast, however.Over southern Georgia, year after year, the atmostphere wishes for a snowstorm. Temperatures near the land have a different thing in mind and typically tease the residents with a not-cold-enough — yet chilly nonetheless — briskness...

Industrial theme ver. 1.0.11 for Firefox

I’ve addressed several requests; modified icons, and fixed the right-mouse-button click on download dialog crash in the most recent version of the Industrial theme for Firefox. Enjoy!Update: I have fixed the install.rdf within the theme so that it states the correct version. Sorry about that! (:

Utah ’04 wrap-up

I’ve been in Utah for the past week-and-some-days on a work-related trip. Today, I’m flying back to MassachusettsThings done while in Utah:# Met a lot of great people in the Provo office.# Also met Ryan and Josh, from #photography (and elsewhere)# Went on a few photo trips with Ryan and...

Firefox in the New York Times!

Today’s the day that the Firefox ad is in the New York Times.It’s great to see the ad finally — and it even seems (at least according to the PDF so far) they even spelled my name correctly. (: