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I got one of these for my Cancun vacation.  Unfortunately we didn’t go snorkeling so I don’t have any underwater shots to look at.

The good:

It’s a really small camera, fits easily in the pocket and has a hard cover that goes over the lens (although, sometimes this opens on it’s own).  The LCD is really large and moving around the menu is easy.

I won’t get into all the features listed but obviously the waterproof/shockproof are nice.  Most of the menu items you can press the “Disp” button to get a brief text description about the item/feature.  There’s also a “Guide” mode that tells you how to take better shots in some situations, such as “Brightening subject.” , “Shooting into backlight.” and “Reducing blur” to list a few.

Night mode was pretty good.  Pictures have some grain, and more blurred when your subject is moving.  It definitely took shots that my girlfriend’s point and shot couldn’t because it doesn’t have a night mode.

It was fun to be able to take it on the water rides and go sailing/kayaking with it… and when it started raining it was nice to not have to be concerned with my camera getting wet.  Also, since it’s shockproof I wasn’t worried when it was hitting the kayak as I was rowing.

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Ok, so I’d like to direct everybody over to:
http://panocamera.com/blog/?p=26

This guy has designed a program (and cable) to connect his Canon Digital SLR camera to his Gameboy DS so that he can use it to control the camera. Everything from shot bracketing to noise response photography.

I wonder if he would include the source code with the cable for us tweakers?
-Doug

I was using a script from somebody else to hide advertisements in Facebook, but they only worked on the first page load.  Anytime I changed the page, the ads came back.  So I revised the script and now it works again.  Get it here:

http://userscripts.org/users/63349

This is for Firefox users, and is a GreaseMonkey script.  Please use Google to answer any questions related to the browser or the GreaseMonkey script itself (including, where to get it and how to install it).

Ok, so I finally remembered to check on the status of the word I submitted to Urban Dictionary and it’s there, check it out:

While I was there, I decided kill some time and browse some word-of-the-day posts, and for your enjoyment, I bring you some of my favorites… and I’ll even write a little fiction to spice it up for you:  (Work with me here, I’m a computer nerd, not a writer)
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Well, I was checking out some statistics on my site and discovered that I get on average 9-10 visitors per day… I’m not sure where you’re all coming from, but welcome… Most of these visitors are here for the programming stuff (specifically the SQL trigger context post) I certainly wouldn’t mind some comments on if you think I’ve got something right/wrong.

One visitor that deserves special mention is… apparently somebody searched for “one guy many girls” and stumbled his/her way over to my site, haha…. That’s good stuff.

This guide is written for EphPod version 2.75, free download here.

After installing the software and connecting your iPod (you may need to turn on “hard disk mode“, start the software and select the drive that your iPod shows up as.

1. Create a folder on your hard drive to download your music to, we will us C:\Music\iPod\
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Fair warning: This post is a waste of your time, there’s nothing worth reading… can’t say I didn’t warn you.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and not much is new… but I figure, I need to post something every now and then. That, and I feel as if I’ve run out of internet again… got any good sites I can check out?

Been spending quite a bit of time working lately… big project that will have huge deadlines at almost every step along the way, so no worries about not having enough stress/pressure to keep me going there, haha.

When I’m not at home, I’ve been relaxing at home… getting tired of sitting at home almost every night again, but don’t really know what to do about it. Nothing really sounds interesting outside of going to Fox and Hound or Dave and Busters and such, which isn’t an “everyday” sort of deal.

So while I sit at home, I watch TV (it looks like this should be a good season of Lost again!) and play Halo 3. I’m not that great at it, but I still enjoy playing it. The multi-player aspect is quite fun, and I’m usually playing with 3 or 4 people over here against other people online, which is good.

I really need to wash the car, but it’s too cold outside… maybe I’ll clean up around the house a bit one of these days… Ok, well, off I go now I suppose.

Why do I always seem to get sick during the holidays… stupid sore throat.

So, here’s a quick update for anyone that cares… I’ve been really busy lately and yet, not at the same time. A couple weeks ago I helped out at the Love For Kids Christmas Party.

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Anybody up for some guy-bashing?

It seems to me that Andrea Grimes has some sort of mental disorder, that seems to be fairly common for a lot of writers… Especially for the Dallas Observer. I’m sure you’re wondering what I’m talking about… well here’s the article. It’s a long read, and barely worth skimming, but the comments are worth a chuckle. I also like how it’s in the ‘news’ category.

Now for those of you that don’t know “me”, the lifestyle that this article is attacking is far from my own.  This ‘review’ is not biased due to being offended. I do however, find it rather funny that the writer could pull this much crap out of their fingertips and into the keyboard. So much bull shit assumptions and being genderist (* see note) in general.

I have three things more to say about this article:

1. The chicks that go home to sleep with the guys that spend the money on them don’t deserve anything more than what they get. IMHO: The guys got what they paid for and the girls sold themselves out. Point being: These guys may be sleeze bags, but the girls that they get aren’t any better than they are.
2. At least one of the guys in the pictures on that article carries an American Express Centurion Card (Black Card). For those that don’t want to read about it, this card requires an annual fee of $2500/year and $250,000 in annual cash flow through the card account. $30,000 millionaire he is not…
3. There is somebody else with my name that made a comment on the article, that is not me.

* note:

genderist - A person that discriminates or is prejudice based on gender.

More politically correct than sexist.

Submitted to urbandictionary.com, we’ll see what happens.

Rant Alert:

Ok… so I’m not sure why, but I find myself watching the news and they have a story about a girl that graduated from UNT and wanted to be a judge, blah blah blah….  didn’t get accepted to Ohio State Law School and ended up overdosing on heroin.

So the dealer got charged with her murder… which is cool with me, that’s not what this rant is about.

During the interview, the mother says “somebody’s gotta pay” and the whole news story makes it seem as if the girl that overdosed was a victim…  NO, she wasn’t.  You know what she was?  She was guilty of drug use!  Quit acting like she was innocent!