Posts in the "technology" Category...

Unplugged on Vacation

technology, travel & holidays »

[8 Feb 02013 | 313 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

We’ve been doing a lot of thinking and planning for an upcoming vacation, and one of the things I’ve seriously considered doing is leaving my phone at home.

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Field-Testing (ahem…. Hill Testing) the New Camera

photography, technology »

[14 Dec 02012 | 543 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

Sure enough, after weeks of postponed ship-dates and a frustratingly mysterious pre-order process, the GoPro Hero3 Black I purchased waaaaay back in early November arrived in the hours before we were leaving town for the wedding of my brother-in-law. And while …

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Cashless Advent: A Personal Timeline

money & spending, technology »

[10 Aug 02012 | 500 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

I’m not any kind of real expert on monetary transaction in any sense of the word, other than that I now have well over thirty years of experience in spending money. As such, those thirty years have seen a whole variety of changes.

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Stupid Android Tricks: Audio Edition

technology, watching & listening »

[7 Aug 02012 | 285 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

So, it’s been about two and a half weeks since I broke down and did an early upgrade on my phone, landing myself with a very slick — and now orange-be-cased — Samsung Galaxy Note.

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Reloaded: Back to Slacker Edition

technology, travel & holidays »

[31 Jul 02012 | 243 views | 6 minutes of your time ]

I\’ve been slacking. I mean, we had such grand plans. We set aside a week in late-July for some family togetherness (for better or for worse) months previous. The idea was a mid-summer break, a bit of travel, and some well-needed down-time. Or…

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Photo Archiving Adventures

informology, photography, technology »

[8 Apr 02012 | 608 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

I decided I wanted to give Picassa a try for managing my collection. Before that point I had little micro collections, and collections with a lot of overlap between them, on CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, external hard drives, internal drives, memory sticks, memory cards, and scattered across a collection of systems.

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Disneyland Video

art & code, opinions & venting, technology »

[22 Mar 02012 | 710 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

This is a bit of an experiment. The attached video (if one is still attached by the time you read this post) contains copyrighted music. If you like the music, you can buy it. You should buy it. …

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Upgraded-able

blogger, meta & methods, technology »

[15 Mar 02012 | 513 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

You may or may not have noticed, but I’ve been poking at this thing I call a personal “brand” for the last few weeks. I’ve nudged a few titles and labels for various sites. I’ve prodded a bunch of my …

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Technology Opines: Episode One

photography, technology »

[14 Jan 02012 | 376 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

This is a cross-post from my photo blog: Pixelated.
At some point later this year we\’re going to Disneyland. I won\’t say exactly when or for how long, but rather simply that it presented an interesting technological problem. See, I\’ve always been a …

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