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How confusing what to do. Here are some things I learned at Yelp of all places: * If you hae kids clothes, then the Treehouse is a good choice, goes directly into their clothing store * Northwest Center has a big program, but they are basically just recyling for a…

OK, trying this new stream on the Mac with DPP and then printing to a Canon Pro9000 connected to a Time Capsule on this new paper which is Platinum Pro. Here are the notes on usage. The most important is that with the new paper you have to update the…

eDave was asking how secure Skype really is. Well, the NSA I’m sure can hack the 256-bit encryption, but you have to find the peer-to-peer connection first since there is no centralized server for Skype. There is a nice white paper that covers the technical details in good detail, but…

Man, some of this stuff isn’t well documented. I’ve had problems with mod rewrite on my system for a while and in looking around found there is a file htaccess.txt that has to be manually edited in each zenphoto installation with the subdirectory. Now mod rewrite works on my gallery…

It is amazing that anyone can figure this stuff out. The long and short is that I’ve been using Zenphoto with great success for photos. But when I got my new Canon 5D Mark II, suddenly, images started failing. You can see the blanks in ZenPhoto Troubleshooting say in that…

Superbowl was exciting and we were rooting for the Cardinals too bad. In the mean time though, it was a 30 minute mission to get this new TiVo HD XL setup. Actually was amazingly easy if a bit frustrating. Some notes: You get these magic Cable Cards from Comcast. There…

Well, there was a layer of ice underneath the powder and then you break through and then you get to start “Operation Face Plant.” 🙂

OK, had the camera for a month and the pictures are amazing, now time to tweak things: First a note on lenses and how they look at high magnification. Canon 5D Mark II and lenses For instance, with the sharpest zoom I’ve ever used, the 70-200 f/4 IS L, it’s…

Argh. Pots and pans are great, but they do accumulate grossness after a while. Consumer Reports says everything they tested work pretty well in cleaning off ordinary stains fro msheets. But, what about really getting the junk off of stainless steel pots and pans. It is a brown film of…

Nothing like omakesase at Nobu to celebrate Serena Williams and Dina Safina win. Cool sake on this. Nobu is great but knowing the sushibchef is better!