Archive for September, 2008
Photo Sharing Services
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Photography, Reviews on September 25, 2008
Since I became a dad, and bought a dSLR I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to store and share my pictures of my son, and other interesting stuff I shoot. As far as securely storing it locally, I have a sizable RAID setup that handles redundantly storing my pictures on two drives, [...]
The Nikon D90 Excites Me
Posted by RyanG in Photography, Videography on September 17, 2008
Okay, so it’s not news that the new Nikon D90 digital SLR has been announced. The camera is the following (new) features crammed into a body with the same footprint as the D80. 12.3MP CMOS sensor 3 inch screen with “Live View” Built in support for GPS geo-tagging in your EXIF data (GPS receiver sold [...]
My free DIY lightbox
Posted by RyanG in Photography on September 10, 2008
Since acquiring my Nikon D80 Digital SLR, I’ve been spending more and more time reading and researching about how to best exploit it’s capabilities and improve my shooting skills. As a result of this effort I’ve found a wonderful resource on lighting with small off camera flashes over at Strobist. I stumbled across them when [...]
Livin’ on the web
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on September 9, 2008
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been transitioning a lot of my normal computing activities to the internet. What I mean by this, is where I used to use some software based solution for something that had to be installed on every computer I used, or had to be used on only a single [...]
The Lexus Lives!
This Labor Day weekend I finally put the finishing touches on my wife’s Lexus ES300. You see, about 5 weeks earlier I had started the seemingly simple task of removing the cylinder heads, and replacing them with a rebuilt pair I had practically stolen from a seller on eBay. The goal of course, was to [...]
The upgrade begins
Posted by RyanG in PC Upgrade, Worklogs on September 5, 2008
I just placed the first of two orders for the components to my new desktop machine! This upgrade is sorely overdue, the last time I got a “new” machine was about 3 years ago and it was antiquated then. So I’m going from my 2.4GHZ P4 with 1GB RAM and an assortment of various drives [...]
Corvette ZR1 Owners – Schooled
Okay, so I’ve been a little bit out of the loop on the new Corvette ZR1 in spite of being a Motor Trend subscriber. Bottom line, this is the fastest car the General has ever produced in any quantity for public consumption. You can read all about Motor Trend’s first drive here. However, my very [...]
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