Or more importantly, holed up at home while I slog through my doctoral proposal in preparation for my preliminary exam in a couple of weeks. So I really haven’t had much to post about, or the time to even think of posting. When I do get a moment you might hear about: Floyd Landis’ amazing …
Category Archives: General
100 Miles on a Bike
I find it’s easier to motivate to workout when I have a goal. To this end, I signed up for the Sea Gull Century. Held this year on October 7 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the Sea Gull has the reputation of being the flattest century in America. Even better, the next day there’s an (optional) …
Subtle Changes
Kate‘s comment last week regarding content “above the fold” reminded me of my posts from last year on making an impact in less than 30 seconds and tools for more effective blogging. I realized that I hadn’t evaluated my own blogs in the intervening 18 months since I wrote those posts. Much to my surprise, …
Blogging Proposition Results
Some results from my little experiment yesterday. Based on the web server logs we had: 87 users come in from traffic exchanges 19 Blog Clicker visitors 39 Blog Mad visitors 36 Blog Explosion visitors Apparently, 7 users are using multiple exchanges. In total, we had 14 comments from visitors arriving through the traffic exchanges which …
RasberryLeaf and another car crash
My old friend rasberryleaf has a long running blog over at Hot Air. But she’s a bit down after a recent car crash, and I can totally sympathize (I’ve been in too many myself). But the odd thing is that one of the last times I saw her, we were driving between a wedding and …
A blogging proposition
I’m curious about how many of the people who pass through here actually even look at the posts. So, I have a proposition: leave me a comment, include a bit about what your blog is about, and I’ll swing by your blog, read at least one post, and if I have something nice to say …
Shooting in Raw
You should use your digital camera’s raw shooting mode. It’s a simple statement, but many don’t use raw mode while making photographs. Their primary excuse seems to be that using JPEG mode requires less space on (expensive) flash memory cards. But the simple fact of the matter is that unless you’re shooting in raw you’re …
Outage
I apologize to anyone who had problems accessing the blog and related sites today. Heavy rains in the area knocked out our Internet connection for about 6 hours. We’re back up for now, but the rains are expected to continue, so please bear with us.
Less Comment Spam
Comment spam has been on the rise lately, and I’ve been deploying anti-spam software on the blogs to counteract the recent increase in spam activity. Akismet is a great tool, sorting out 99.8% of the comment spam I’ve received in the last couple of months with very few errors. Available as a plug-in to WordPress, …
Out with Windows in with…
This is the operating system I chose to install on the Shuttle XPC. (Click to enlarge) And here’s one of the entire rig. (Click to enlarge) With the correct tools from the Web, the entire process was pretty much point-and-click. Sound, video (Quartz Extreme and Core Image), and Rosetta were all working immediately; overall this …