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Amazingly, in just five years, I’ve gone from using a hundred CDs a year to barely 10. Still, I’m about out of CDs now, so time to buy some recordables. Taiyo Yuden or 太陽誘電 (which means Sun Dielectric). These blank CD and DVD media are usually considered to be the best amongst enthusiasts. The main [...]

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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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Amazing fact, even with all the sun out in Hawaii:

Hawaii Plans Big Solar Power Arrays at Airports, Harbors The island state is 92 percent dependent on fossil fuel, all of it imported.

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Grand Wailea. What a hotel. Seven pools. Six water slides. Lunch a Bistros was fine #
Sigh. Raining (again) in Hawaii. OTOH the sun is so strong when out. Dinner at Basil Tomatoes. Very expensive, but the tomatoes were amazing … #
Raining a lot. Off to maui aquarium. Rewrote the anagrams program #

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