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Photography

Pics and bother

Unfortunately, it wasn’t until I used my TiBook – with its much better resolution – that I was able to see that my print scanner has a defect, and is leaving a streak. In addition, more dust and speckles on the photos scanned then showed on my Dell laptop. Bother. But enough with my photos, […]

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Photography Weblogging

Photos and Weblogging tools

I spent the weekend organizing my photo collection I picked up in San Francisco my last trip – reviewing, grouping into categories and then putting the slides/prints/negatives into their special sleeves in photo notebooks. My goal is to digitalize all of the photos in order to preserve them because most modern film types can start […]

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outdoors Photography

Time warp

With all good intentions I go on these walks along the Katy Trail determined that I’m going to walk to a specific point, turn around and head back to the car and get home at a reasonable time. But then I end up going farther on the drive then planned – those country roads – […]

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Photography Places

Way of the butterfly

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It wasn’t all work and no play this weekend. I also explored two new conservation areas: Weldon Springs and the new Columbia Bottom. I found both of these through the Missouri Conservation connection, which is probably the best online nature site I know of — check out the interactive maps. The […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Two down, three to go

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve installed two weblogs in the For Poets site: Linux for Poets – maintained by the freebie pMachine installation. Internet for Poets – maintained by WordPress an open source weblogging tool. Both support comments and trackbacks, and both weblogs feature the look and feel straight out of the box. I couldn’t install Blojsom, based on RDF and […]