I’ve been reading The Strobist for a bit now, and realized that I’d just missed last year’s Lighting 101. Apparently he’s running a second course this year (aptly named Lighting 102). I picked myself up a few goodies. All but one of the items was from eBay.

The Nikon SB-800 [...]

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Definitely NSFW, this semi-amusing clip comes from the Royal Marines operating in Afghanistan. And here is the clip.

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With Bill’s current obsession with lolcats, I thought he might find this slightly amusing.

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How do you turn a 12 (or more) hour job into 40 minutes? Script it…

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I’ve somehow got myself roped into a triathlon at work. This should be interesting. Good thing is, it’s not until October, so it gives me plenty of time to get fit again.

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I’ve been renting a Nikon 105mm VR Macro lens from ZipLens, and got to take a trip to Dallas Arboretum last weekend. This is one of the shots with the lense. I have this one as my desktop at the moment. I quite like it. Very nice bright orange-yellow. There [...]

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I was crawling through my feeds this morning, and this BBC news article caught me because of the snippet.

A man and woman found dead in a garden next to an electric lawnmower may have been there overnight.

Why did that get me? Intrigued by the link to the electric lawnmower. I had a feeling [...]

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While this really isn’t a huge amount of magic, it shows how powerful a simple shell script can be. It’s also probably an example of non-efficiency, and there are probably much better ways of handling them.

One of the helpdesk guys reported an issue with a third party vendor trying to send us pictures of [...]

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A while ago, I posted an quick item on normalization of my music collection. What it left me with, was a directory full of all the music files, and no particular layout at all. I’m particularly fond of trying to keep my directories tidy, no mater what operating system, so this was beginning [...]

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I think there is a conspiracy at the moment to get me to try and track things. What I mean is in terms of projects, tasks, goals, and such. I think some of the blogs I read are also in on this conspiracy.

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