Month: June 2008

  • nerdlogger stumbls into tumblr….

    I’ve been hanging around tumblr.com for the last couple of days and I’m quite impressed. My buddy brad — bradfortner.com — would love this. He — and a lot of others — use twitter.com and tinyurl.com to keep track of stories they want to either read or blog and socialize. Well that plus a lot…

  • Holidays, 1stopoflight.com and I’m back in the Studio…..

    We’re having a extended long weekend, and I was working on my new photography site — 1stopoflight.com — when the studio bug bit me :-). Yeah everything was happy, I was customizing my new tumblr based photography site, when a couple of ideas started running through my head. Cassette Tapes, you know those magnetic beasts…

  • 1stopoflight.com is here….

    Well I finally broke down and did it. My new Photography site can be found hosted on tumblr at 1stopoflight.com. I’m using a modified museum theme by Paul Giacherio.The nice thing about having the site on tumblr is that I can host the physical photos on yahoo’s flickr.com and just link them into 1stopoflight.com‘s pages.…

  • Some CLI tunes…..

    Just when you thought your command line life was getting boring, we discover these happy tunes for your cut/paste pleasure. Just select the entire line, copy it, open a terminal window, paste it followed by Enter and marvel at your Mac. Yeah it’s a OSX thing and works best under 10.5, so if you’ve got…

  • JumpBox: Super simple way of getting web services deployed.

    If you read our “Open Source Lovin’ for your Server” earlier this year and thought “that’s too much trouble”, here is an even easier way to sample preconfigured Open Source Application Servers at your own leasure. Be it for developement, fun, backup or even production, you can not beat JumpBox at simplicity. What they’ve done…

  • Transcode and stream DV to mpeg4 via firewire using VLC and Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

    Well kids are you ready for todays lesson in transcoding DV video. So first you need a decent machine. I’m using a P4 2.4Ghz oldie that has Firewire on-board and am chewing up 50% CPU for NTSC encoding. Then you need to get Ubuntu 8.04 installed. Once that’s done use the following command to install…

  • WRDL or is it Wordle….which ever way you say it, it spells fun :-)

    Head over to wordle.net and try your hand at creating a work of art using only words. It’s fun and if you’re lucky will only entertain you for a couple of hours (not days). Now back to WRDL for more ANMTD WRD PLY FN.

  • Styrobot….Something creative my mind never came up with

    Yeah, now I know what I am gonna do with the packing foam that comes with the purchase of our next 50 Dell Servers. Michael Salter’s creations can be viewed at San Jose Museum of Art, Robots:Evolution of a Cultural Icon, up thru 10/08. Totally cool and creative. Definitely one for the “I wish I’d…

  • TinEye Image Finger Printing Technology….Find out who’s stealing your images

    Just came across Idée’s new baby, TinEye. Have you ever wondered why it is that you can’t just go to google images (or similar image search engine) and look for images based on image content and not tags, names and such. Well it’s because it’s damn hard to do and frankly until now I haven’t…

  • Toronto Strobist Group meets at Ryerson

    Yesterday TSG (Toronto Strobist Group) had their 3rd meeting at the Rogers Communications Centre. Lots of new faces, lots of new ideas. I definitely learned alot and generally had a blast. Got to try some of my homemade equipment which was kinda cool and also got to try my hands at shooting some fake kick…