What’s the trick to capturing waves crashing on to rock? I took so many pictures of this scene, and yet this mediocre shot was the best one I got. Do I need to be closer? Do I just need to frame it differently? (this one is cropped already.)
I had pretty much given up on txp, but then I saw this site. Not extremely interesting content-wise, but I do like the layout. I can imagine having a two column page where one column has all my short posts like this one, and another column has all my long rants.
I know I’m behind on my reviews, but my excuse is that I didn’t have keyboard that I was happy enough with to write my reviews on. That may have changed, as I received the Belking ErgoBoard Pro (USB, black) today. First impresssions, aside from the lack of adjustability, are pretty positive. More to come […]
I’ve spent the last few days messing around with textpattern. While it’s true that I can get it to do things that I don’t know how to do in WP (like getting comments to show in the index page), WP still feels more complete and polished. To be specific, there are a few WP features […]
After looking at a lot of web app frameworks, Johnvey put it most succinctly: “none of them are complete. You’re better off with an off the shelf solution”. He also pointed me to textpattern, which I’ve set up here. So far, I’ve been quite productive with it. It’s templating system is a bit odd (or […]
It seems hard to find a good FTP/sftp app these days. But for some reason, I was searching around today and found Cyberduck, a fantastic open source ftp/sftp app for OSX. It seems to be active, feature complete, and polished. What more can you ask for? It also has a great feature that Fugu also […]
Here’s what I think it comes down to. Say theres some new type of software product. Let’s say the set of all features that this product can have is F, with features F1…F10. In the commercial world, someone will sit down and think hard and decide which subset of F will result in a good […]