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  • Ornamental Reflection

    December 26, 2009
    from LiveJournal, Photography

    Ornamental Reflection Originally uploaded by Ezra S F Downtown Valdosta outside Bleu Cafe.

  • Making Simple Tags Work in WordPress 2.9

    December 26, 2009
    Blog Software

    Followed Andy Fore’s instructions on adding WP 2.9 to the whitelist. The only problem I have so far discovered is Tag the Net doesn’t appear to work. The error: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class services_json in /home/path/wplog/wp-includes/class-json.php on line 115 Looks like WordPress distributed a new class-json.php. Back in Simple Tags 1.6.5, this specific error was supposedly…

  • December Dilemma

    December 25, 2009
    Religion / Baha’i Faith

    From a CNN article, For Many, December’s a Dilemma by Joe Sterling (mentioned by Phillipe Copeland): Navigating the Christmas season can be a challenge for the millions of people who don’t celebrate the holiday. Many acknowledge and sometime embrace the season’s customs, such as gift-giving and sending out greeting cards, while at the same time…

  • Blinded by Money

    December 24, 2009
    Movies / Films / TV

    In order to get my grandmother out of the house, Mom and I took her to see the Blind Side today. This is the classic horrible life until someone provides a opportunities and assistance. The helpers benefit by seeing how the helped improve. Annie in this case is a 6’6″ 320 pound black guy whose…

  • Another Self Portrait

    December 23, 2009
    Uncategorized

    Another Self Portrait Originally uploaded by Ezra S F I finally have my own flash setup. A Sunpak MZ440-CA on a light stand with a hot shoe. Triggering the flash through a set of PocketWizards. I had a couple days to play with it before going over to a friend’s to do portraits of his…

  • Racist Camera?

    December 22, 2009
    Algorithm, Hardware

    This is actually kind of amusing. Dark skinned Desi and light skinned Wanda demonstrate the HP’s MediaSmart webcam tracking software can track her but not him. HP says: We are working with our partners to learn more. The technology we use is built on standard algorithms that measure the difference in intensity of contrast between…

  • Self Portrait

    December 21, 2009
    from LiveJournal, Photography

    Self Portrait Originally uploaded by Ezra S F This was posted a while ago to Flickr, but I was reminded it has been a while since I posted anything here… Sitting on a recliner playing with my new bank breaking toys. Sunpak MZ440AF-CA on a light stand with a hot shoe connected to a PocketWizard…

  • Supply and Demand

    December 21, 2009
    University

    Here is a shocking idea. People get college degrees because graduates are valued. This leads to parents sending more kids to college who get degrees. Eventually higher education reaches the point where the overabundance of graduates decreases the value of a degree. Weak students have been admitted for years. Universities struggle to identify who will…

  • Me Social Media

    December 18, 2009
    Photography, Social

    Dan Schultz doesn’t like Facebook or Twitter because they are too focussed on individual expression rather than the community. That may be because he is using them wrong. I liked photography as a kid, but I didn’t know any photographers. Flickr happened to come into my life just after I bought my first digital camera.…

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