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Opening and Closing Ceremonies

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I hope they never take the NBC Olympics site down. It is really very good. Closing ceremonies are finally playing the US. But, the opening was unforgettable. They are online now as Part I and this links to the other pars.

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Olympic finals

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Wow, China wins 51 gold medals, by far higher than the US at 36. The overall standings were very close. US at 110 and China at 100. What is more significant IMHO is how concentrated the US medals are. Michael Phelps accounted for no less than 8 of the 36 gold that the US [...]

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Landscape Photography

May 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Photography

Had a chance to read a landscape photography magazine. Some great tips

Neutral Density Graduated Filters are a good way to get a landscape where the sun is really bright and the landscape is dark. You get something which doesn’t require exposure bracketing and then processing with Photomatix to get a photo. A neutral density [...]

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Zenphoto

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Wordpress, Zenphoto

OK, finally flopped Nextgen Gallery for ZenPhoto even though I can’t get the widget to work. But, let’s try integration. First, you should see a Photos button now at the top. You do need a password to see anything though
But to get it to actually integrate into the blog is the trick. First [...]

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February Photos

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Photo

They are really good looking, so see the February photos and this is an experiment. Eventually I have to figure out how to password protect all this, but for right now, here goes…

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