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Graphics/CSS Photography

Photoshop misery

I had been keeping my version of Photoshop current on my Mac, but not my Windows. When I saw an upgrade package at Amazon that would upgrade my Windows 5.0 version to CS2, I decided to get it. A day wasted later, and oddly enough, talking to what sounds like the same people Chuqui talked […]

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Technology

Movin’ on up to PHP5

Recovered from Wayback Machine. The PHP group has announced end of support for PHP4 and encouraging everyone to move on up to PHP5. WordPress Matt isn’t happy with PHP5 and believes such a move should happen when PHP6 goes beta. I think the point really is that the PHP group can’t move forward on PHP6, […]

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Copyright

Artists create, developers hack

From the email list associated with the Creative Commons group, I found an interesting thread, where it seems many members of the organization believe that the non-commercial option in the CC licenses should be abolished. As one person wrote, works licensed under cc didn’t really challenged the dominant market paradigm. especially the most of them are licensed […]

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Connecting Copyright

Virgin bites Creative Commons on the butt

Wayback Machine entry for post including comments. Rogers Cadenhead finds an ad featuring Molly Holzschlag. About my post, he wrote: Shelley Powers puts the blame for this squarely on Creative Commons for not educating users of its licenses. If you release photos for commercial reuse, but you don’t secure model releases from people they depict, you’re […]

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Critters

Hello Octosquid Good-bye

I couldn’t be a cephalopod fan without being excited about the discovery of the octosquid off of Hawaii. This seeming half octopus, half squid will lead to much interesting speculation. And it’s a beautiful creature, too. I could wish, though, that we could discover these creatures in circumstances other than them being accidental catches, recovered only to […]