Free Earl!

Tonight as I goto sleep, I leave you with this video:

Hope you enjoy! Night all

It’s a Steal!

Well in hitting my morning regulars I hit the mac group on Flickr and noted a link to this: http://macheist.com/ - $50 for about $300 worth of software, plus money going to a good cause - it has 5 days left on the sale, and if $50k and $100k are reached, there will be 2 additional softwares (one at each level) added free of charge to the $50 purchase you already made.

Now PC visitors, I am sorry, this is a mac thing, and I must say for Delicous Library alone, its a tasty deal, ended up giving my brother the license of Disco and ShapeShifter as I own both, and he’s getting a Mac soon, but all in all a awesome deal, and a good set of causes you can select a specific group you want your purchase to go towards, or you can have them separate it up across the board.

I need to get packed up here soon, have a laptop to diagnose here in an hour or two, and I want to get downtown, check my mail, write up my deposits, and on my way there as I have other things on the docket for tonight Check out the deal mac folk, great deal.

Safe, Secure, Fast.

Folks always hit me up for help in securing their computer “How do I keep from getting my information stolen?!” - well Phishing is bad, can’t get around that, but when browsing around today I came across OpenDNS:

Now if you have a website, you may be thinking “Oh, but the company I use gave me DNS servers, they are NSx.superhost.com!” - it’s not that sort of DNS for hosting sites, it’s how your home computer translates where websites are, normally your ISP provides these, but in this case OpenDNS does the look up for you.

First off if you try to goto a site that’s a known “bad site” it’ll put up a notice that prevents you from going to the site, if you mis-type a domain, in some cases it can put in the proper URL for you vs. having to re-type - both features great protection, and with your help (if you get hit with a site that is phishing for your information) you can report it and help stop that site from getting visited.

Granted I am still giving this a test drive for a few days, but thus far, some responses are more snappy as compared to my oversold ISP DNS servers, so a lot of sites load very fast as my browser queries are responded to a lot faster, the nicest thing of all, it’s 100% free.

If your worried about security, and want a extra layer, give it a try - what have you got to loose?

This had to be shared…

Just in case you didn’t know Friday is Sysadmin Day! (http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/sysadmin/) (no pressure… well maybe a little…)

Some Good Tips!

I have never claimed to know what I am doing when it comes to photography, I just know what I have learned by trial and error - I mean 1GB SD/CF cards can let you practice a LOT! So when it came to ISO settings, white balance, etc. it was a lot of trial and error, what looked natural, what didn’t blur, what looked good! But today I saw a great tutorial listed on LifeHacker which pointed to a great article on PhotographyJam.com I gave it a read - and must say laid things out in simple terms, no “The camera needs to be held at a 23 degree angle so your flapper lens can capture as much photons and leptons as possible, in turn providing you with the perfect shot” - simple, easy, good explination and good visual example of the terms at work. Definately helps me a bit more in getting the most out of my E-500 which did get un-dusted the other night, but need to work on my late night shots and it heating up pixels in the black areas.

When did I get so popular?

Last couple of days I have noticed folks finding my site by searching for things like “CHUCK BROWN” - lot of traffic coming from MySpace/Flickr/Yahoo - kinda crazy - did I win the nice guy of the year award? Is there a bounty out for my capture? Did I win the lottery? Who knows.

So far a rather productive evening/afternoon - got a lot done on a project for the Hands and Feet crew, they now have a overly fancy Wordpress blog, with Flash Video support - a very nice setup, still want to fiddle with it some more, but all in all it looks good, going to work some on the photo gallery, then I have to spend some time working on Awaken’s site - get in sinched up and good to go, then first thing in the AM is working on HaF again on a email newsletter system, I think we still have one in place from before, but not sure, need to check it out, apply updates, and go from there, as well as put in a few tweaks to DNS, as well as get a banner setup announcing the blog.

Anywhoo - back to listening to Finnish Radio Chamber Choir - man I miss good vocal chamber music, good stuff, latin - understand some of it, but all in all, just sheer power of human vocal sounds, wowza, good stuff. Anywhoo - off I go! Zoom!

In case you missed it…

Here’s the super bowl commercials, compliments of Google:

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