Archive for July, 2007
Certifications, and Testing, and Stress, Oh My!
Nortel Certified Support Specialist
NCSS – Communication Server 1000 Release 4.5 Database Admin
NCSS – Communication Server 1000 Release 4.5 Installation & Maintenance
NCSS – CallPilot 4.0 Database Admin
NCSS – CallPilot 4.0 Installation & Maintenance
NCSS – Contact Center 6.0 Installation & Maintenance
NCSS – Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Installation & Configuration
Nortel Certified Technology Specialist
NCTS – Converted IP Telephony Solutions
Nortel [...]
Warcraft and Gold Selling
More from Stross’ blog, it seems that some enterprising gold farmer killed many gnomes repeatedly to spell out the website address of where you can go to buy gold. As if Gnomeregan wasn’t bad enough, now we have gnome farming in Ironforge.
I apologize to my friends in Vengeance (Warcraft Guild, Feathermoon-RPG server, Alliance faction) who read [...]
Death of space flight and navigating the Internet
I find William Gibson to be fascinating (in a remote and cursory way). I’m a big fan of his earlier works and purchased Neuromancer in hardback many, many years after it was written simply to have it in my library. Certainly the world has not gone Cyberpunk, but there are many elements of Gibson’s writing [...]
HDR, Take 5
Take 4 sucked, so I’m skipping it. I’m convinced now after 5 attempts that I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m learning through a combination of trial and error, mostly error.
Here you can see my 5th attempt at HDR. The lawn in my apartment complex, near sunset. With the wind moving the leaves, they [...]
Harry Potter Mania
Harry Potter is set to be released tomorrow. I ordered mine from Amazon.com. And yet already spoilers have been released, the most infamous to date is the guy who photographed the entire book and posted the frames to the internet, the second most infamous is the New York Times article which actually spoils the book ending.
JK [...]
Civilization 4, 2nd Expansion Pack
Lo the power of RSS readers, and the ability to keep up to date on the latest Steam news!
Steam released a Civ 4 expansion pack for download today. Steam Powered Civ 4 makes me sit up and think about the days when I used to play the original Civilization, and the spin-offs that it generated. Hours [...]
Nikon D90 Preview (Laugh)
For those who didn’t read the full preview and discover that it was actually a joke, go back and click the link. For those that did, here’s the excerpt of the punch lines for many of the faux features offered in the D90:
uVR: “With uVR enabled, the combined power of the batteries sends a current [...]
Nikon D90 Preview
I recently read the Nikon D90 preview (read the full preview) and wanted to share some of the buzz about it. Based on everything I’ve read, it’s going to revolutionize the Nikon product line.
Universal Vibration Reduction (uVR): Providing a 10 stop advantage over non-uVR equiped dSLR cameras, uVR works with all lenses attached to the Nikon D90. “… This [...]
HDR Take 3.x
In a previous HDR post, I posted another attempt at HDR photography. I continue to play with the post processing on ways to improve the quality of the finished composition.
version 3.2
versus
version 3.1
versus
version 3.0
versus
original
As you can see, improvement is being made… but, I’m still not as pleased with the work as I would like to be.
eHarmony
Every time I see an eHarmony commercial, I sigh in exasperation.
I joined eHarmony 3.5 years ago. I’d never used a formal online dating service, but I’d tried my hand at meeting people online. The problem with meeting people online is that too often they are dishonest. This really isn’t a function of dating online, it’s just [...]
