Fuji Velvia 50 35mm Film
Over the past few months I have been running various 35mm film stocks through my Nikon FE and more recently my Nikon N80 in an effort to find differences in the films. The film I was most excited abou...
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Back from Vacation... Where do I stand?
Well, I've just returned from a week long vacation into the white mountains here in New Hampshire. I am tired but it was enough of a change of pace for me that I'm feeling refreshed as well. To me, th...
Used Stuff from KEH.com
I ordered some used Nikon gear from KEH.com this week and I thought I'd mention how impressed with them I was. I should also mention that, of course, they nor anyone else is giving me anything for tal...
Nikon 24-120mm VR Zoom Lens Review
Several months ago when I was searching for what I call a 'walking around lens' the Nikon 24-120mm VR was top on my list. It's a unique lens in the Nikon lineup. It's both fairly wide and fairly long...
Real World iPhone thoughts...
I'm a geek with an iPhone living out in the boonies and I thought it would interesting to post my thoughts of iPhone use as a contrast to the big reviews posted by people in NYC and San Fransisco. Whe...
Getting Better Fuel Efficiency
These days everyone and their mom is posting on the internet about getting better gas mileage. I've read a lot of articles that talk about the topic and they all seem to have a few things in common. T...
Grow Your Own: The Garden is a Reality!
The garden has been built, planted and is now growing. Some might say that since no posts have come forth that those facts prove that I am behind in my posting. Those people would be correct. The gard...
Apple Leopard Server: Two Weeks Later
So, it's been installed and running for two weeks. I think I made it pretty clear in the first review that it's good but not perfect, nothing is and over the past 14 days I've had a chance to really d...
Review: Apple's Leopard Server
As you may have read in my twitter feed, I have installed Mac OS X Leopard Server on a basically stock Mac Mini for my personal use. The Mini hosts email and webmail, calendars, directory services and...
Choosing Film - Part One
It never occurred to me that buying film could be so confusing. With digital you just pick and ISO setting and go but with film each manufacturer makes a number of different kinds of film based on it'...
My Nikon FE
Well, I bought the FE. Got it at my local camera store, Eagle Photo. Used, of course, but in quite good condition. It appears to have been well loved but so far so good. I bought it with a ton of chea...
Cooking a Pork Rib Roast
A few weekends ago I roasted a Pork Rib Roast with a friend of mine. Neither one of use had ever eaten one.. let alone cooked one, so it was a bit of an adventure. He and I both enjoy cooking though s...
NAB News: Red Scarlet
NAB, or the National Association of Broadcasters, is holding their annual conference in Las Vegas this week. It's a place for a number of companies to show off their new products ect. Standard confere...
Traffic Lights - Time Wasters for All!
I few months ago my route to work changed and now includes about a dozen traffic lights. I used to have to commute 90+ minutes down toward Boston in traffic but since my office has moved I now have th...
Macbreak Weekly with Patrick Wilson
This weeks Macbreak Weekly has guest Patrick Wilson, the drummer from Weezer. During the show they do talk a bit about technology and Mac's but a good portion of it turned into a great interview with...
Review: Norco DS-1220
The DS-1220 is great. It was dead easy to setup and has caused me to trouble at all. I installed Fedora 8 in the days leading up to the delivery the the DS-1220 based solely on the fact that I saw som...
American's start thinking about the... unthinkable!
I can only imagine the horror for your average American family! Having to spend less than you make! Putting money in savings! Say it ain't so! Could there be anything worse that could possibly happen?...
Grow You Own: Good News Update
So, We grabbed the two drums I have and stuff the end of the sump pump hose into the barrel. I thought that we might fill a barrel over the course of a few days. I had been monitoring the amount of wa...
Grow Your Own: Collecting Rain - Planning
Well, up here in the northeast we still have a bit of snow on the ground and it's still dropping well below freezing at night so it's much to early to start planting, but it's time for my winter think...
Storage Update: Picking up the Pieces
Well, I have placed an order for the Norco DS-1220. I ordered it from Newegg.com as an open box item. It's a bit of a gamble, for couple of reason. The first is because open box from Newegg means some...