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Weather

But it’s not spring yet

The first of the major Spring storms is hitting us, and will continue for the next few hours. It’s not even Spring, but we reached into the 70’s today, and should drop 40 or so degrees within the next hour or two. Can’t have two such strong systems meet without something bumping. We have a […]

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Photography

Pale shadow

The second beta release of Adobe’s Lightroom was released today, and it is a significant improvement over the first. It runs faster and has a superior toolset, including the much demanded cropping tool. Adobe says it will also run on the new PC Macs, which surprised me. Beta 2 also has the ability to add […]

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Diversity

One last SxSW post

I discovered that the SxSW panel on Increasing Women’s Visibility on the Web: Whose Butt Should We Be Kicking is still happening, under Blogher management. One of the original panel members, Virginia DeBolt, is still on the panel, and it looks like a goodly mix of people will be featured. I am disappointed that the original panel fell […]

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Photography Places

Thank You JohnnyB

I received a new comment today to my post, Confluence. The post was based on a trip I took last year to Cairo, Illinois, and the comment was from a man who signed himself JohnnyB: I grew up in Illinois in the 1960s and remember the race riots in Cairo in 1967 and 1969 and the […]

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People

Oh Danny, boy!

Danny Ayers speaks! In his first podcast Danny Ayers joins with Adam Green and podcast regulars Alex Barnett and Joshua Porter in a podcast on OPML and reading lists. I thought Danny did quite well and has a lovely voice. It reminds me a little of Brian Epstein’s voice, but I imagine that’s a regional similarity. I would […]