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424 days ago
Technorati Tags: orcmid, Nikon D80, HDR, High Dynamic Range, photography, Stuck in Customs, suono, Trey Ratcliff, Dougerino [ cross-posted from Orcmid’s Lair : I have found superior ways to use Windows Live Writer, now in version 14 beta, together with my own web sites and Flickr, for posting images of all kinds. Because that also allows me to have backups on my own computer and backups for any need to recover or move a site, I will be winding down my use of Orcmid’s Live Hideout. This cross-post is my offering and invitation to explore my other blogs.] I envy Dougerino’s proficiency with High Dynamic Range (HDR) photographs. On a photo-walk with him at the Seattle Aquarium on Saturday, 2008-09-20, I figured this was my best chance to get some tips and try the technique myself. I also figured that the garish lighting and colors in aquarium displays would grant me license to mess up color saturation and other aspects of HDR that ...505 days ago
Technorati Tags: Google, Lively, VChat, interoperability, discussion Thanks to some mentions in Twitter, I have found myself a lively place , a new Google property. I need to figure out how to get the image and entrance to the room to be more impressive. We'll see. The name of the place is Orcmid's Lively Interoperability Zone. Sort of like "islands of interoperability" in the Asteroid Belt. I have no idea what I am doing here, but I can't always be a late adopter, you know? So, does anyone remember VChat? That seemed like a long time ago. I think there may still be some VChat servers around. Look at how much easier this has become? I don't want to keep this web page open all of the time, so I will have to figure out other ways to notice when people arrive and leave and attempt to communicate here. I also need better furniture, but you wouldn't believe the freight charges. This makes the gas-price inflation look like ...
551 days ago
Technorati Tags: Ed Bott, uncensored jukebox, random media player, Victoria E. Hamilton, orcmid Ed Bott has published a pre-holiday Random 10 and a new Uncensored Jukebox Challenge. Ed reports that it is Judy's birthday so this seems like a great way to wish Judy happy birthday. In celebration of all things romantic, tomorrow, the Saturday of U.S. Memorial Day weekend 2008 is the 13th anniversary of my meeting Vicki in a parking lot and asking her to coffee. We will go out to coffee again. Our 13th wedding anniversary will be this New Years Eve. Elton John: Believe. Love Songs . Amazon MP3. Edvard Grieg: Anitra's Dance. Peer Gynt Suite. 101 Great Orchestral Classics , The Slovak State Philharmonic. MSN Music (DRM doomed to be non-transferable any day now) Bob Marley & The Wailers: Waiting in Vain. Songs of Freedom . MSN Music (DRM doomed to be non-transferable, so this is an appropriate album for a selection and I guess you ...
642 days ago
Technorati Tags: Windows Mobile, T-Mobile, Yahoo! Go, Windows Live Mobile I was sitting quietly in the local Starbucks, jacking into T-Mobile Hot Spot from my brand new T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile instrument. It took me the bus ride from my favorite Barnes & Noble Starbucks to my local one to figure out how I was unable to log on to Windows Live though. I was eager to try logging in again and doing my first blog post from a phone. I was able to get through the Windows Live ID Logon the second time. I specifically wanted to see what this blog looked like when accessed via mobile.windows.live. It takes a lot of navigation, but the post texts show up all right. There are tiny versions of the pictures, too. So it is a nice feature. I haven't tried looking at any of my web pages yet. I'm apprehensive about that. Well, this is not the post I made on the phone. Somewhere around clicking the Publish button the post disappeared, never to be seen ...
664 days ago
