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<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/14/What-is-a-Photographer'>“Photographer”?</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>Every­one takes pic­tures ev­ery­where now, 24/7/365. So does “photographer”, in the am­a­teur sense, still mean any­thing? I have pic­tures and ques­tions that say it does</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/14/What-is-a-Photographer'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[6 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/11/Audio-repair'>Speaker Dust Cap Dent Repair</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>As pre­vi­ous­ly not­ed in this space, I’m a de­ranged au­dio­phile, and for some years my speak­ers of choice have been from <a href='https://totemacoustic.com/en/'>Totem</a>, out of Montréal. In a re­cent ren­o­va­tion a woofer got a dent in a <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_cap'>dust cap</a>, where by “dent” I mean it was pushed in. I’m post­ing the so­lu­tion here in the hopes that fu­ture searchers will find it</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/11/Audio-repair'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[4 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/07/Graph-it'>Getting the Picture</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>It’s like this: Aver­ages are your en­e­my be­cause they hide change. Mak­ing graphs is easy and cheap and some­times they un­cov­er se­cret­s; more of us should do it more</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/07/Graph-it'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/01/Cool-Aussie-Phoners'>Cool Aussie Phoners</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>What the ti­tle says: Three pho­tos of Aussies hold­ing phones look­ing cool</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/01/Cool-Aussie-Phoners'> ...</a></span><br/> </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/31/Serverlessness'>Serverlessness</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>To­day Mi­crosoft an­nounced <a href='https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/'>Azure Func­tions</a>, join­ing <a href='https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs'>Google Cloud Func­tions</a> and (from 2014) <a href='https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/details/'>AWS Lamb­da</a>. This is fun stuff, and might be a big deal</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/31/Serverlessness'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[3 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/28/Mobile-Aerials'>Mobile Aerials</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>A lit­tle while ago I tweet­ed “One thing phone-cams aren’t much good for is shoot­ing out air­plane windows.” Since then, I’ve no­ticed my Nexus 5X look­ing at me in a hurt sort of way</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/28/Mobile-Aerials'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/27/Practical-photography'>Lenses and Cameras in 2016</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>I’m on the way back from a cou­ple of weeks in Aus­trali­a, and of course Pic­tures Were Tak­en. I brought al­most all my photo-gear but used it very un­even­ly; con­clud­ed that I have too many lens­es, and was left won­der­ing whether you re­al­ly even need a cam­era any more. Here­with notes il­lus­trat­ed with Pacific-ocean (most­ly) pic­tures</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/27/Practical-photography'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[4 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/18/Parrot-story'>Galah Story</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>We’re vis­it­ing friends in Aus­tralia and I watched a pair of <s>par­rots</s> in­ter­act (oop­s, Mar­ius Coomans writes from Aus­tralia to tell me they’re Galah­s); pho­tographed them, but didn’t un­der­stand. Oh, and a koala</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/18/Parrot-story'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[2 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/07/City-Thinking'>Urbanity</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>Ci­ties are our rule now, any­thing else the ex­cep­tion. I’m bik­ing most work­days, on con­crete over the ocean in­to the stone heart of a small big city, get­ting ten dozen chan­nels of non­stop ur­ban in­put and ev­ery day I won­der where we’re all go­ing. The fu­ture is dis­tribut­ed un­even­ly and cities con­cen­trate the un­even­ness</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/03/07/City-Thinking'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/28/Lightroom-Mobile-Nexus'>Lightroom, Mobile, Nexus</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>In which I re­port on us­ing the Nexus 5X in RAW mod­e, with the help of Adobe Light­room, and on work­flows for mo­bile pho­togs. With il­lus­tra­tions from Vancouver’s <a href='http://westvancouver.ca/parks-recreation/parks/lighthouse-park'>Light­house Park</a></span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/28/Lightroom-Mobile-Nexus'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[3 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/24/Dell-U3415W'>Dell U3415W</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>34", 21:9, 3440x1440. Which is to say, pret­ty big and pret­ty sharp. Full name: <a href='http://amzn.to/1TGwAED'>Dell Ul­traSharp 34 Curved Mon­i­tor</a>. It’s curved. I like it a lot</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/24/Dell-U3415W'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[9 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/20/High-Tech-Corporate-English'>Modern Corporate English</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>“The client’s ask is simple,” he said, “but I’m not con­vict­ed that’s a good cri­te­ri­a; any­how, there are im­por­tant learn­ings for us.” How much of that do you hate? What­ev­er; liv­ing lan­guages don’t care what you think</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/20/High-Tech-Corporate-English'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[15 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/13/Ingress-at-the-cottage'>CL XXXVI: Island Ingress</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>On a wet grey Fe­bru­ary Satur­day we com­bined two of our amuse­ments on a boat trip to <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keats_Island_(British_Columbia)'>Keats Is­land</a>: <a href='/ongoing/What/The%20World/Cottage%20Life/'>Cot­tage Life</a> and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)'>Ingress</a>. Some of this will be com­pre­hen­si­ble on­ly to Ingress play­er­s, but there are a cou­ple of fair­ly groovy pix.<br/> Up­dat­ed with <a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/13/Ingress-at-the-cottage#apology'>an apol­o­gy</a></span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/13/Ingress-at-the-cottage'> ...</a></span><br/> </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/05/Low-Light-Phonecam'>Low-light Phone cam</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>Reg­u­lar read­ers will know that I have a thing about low-light pho­tog­ra­phy. My new photo-toy is the Nexus 5X and I’ve the urge to push it fur­ther in­to the dark than it re­al­ly wants to go</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/05/Low-Light-Phonecam'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/02/RIP-Marlowe'>Marlowe, RIP</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>Our big male cat, <a href='/ongoing/When/200x/2005/09/25/Marlowe'>an­nounced in this space</a> in 2005, died sud­den­ly. Bloggers’ cats get obit­u­ar­ies</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/02/02/RIP-Marlowe'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[6 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/19/Bike2WorkPix'>#Bike2WorkPix</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>I’ve been cy­cling to work since late last year. It’s good, for me and the world. But there are more con­ve­nient al­ter­na­tives, and they temp­t. So here’s a lit­tle in­cen­tive: <a href='https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bike2WorkPix'>#Bike2WorkPix</a>. Con­sid­er join­ing in!</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/19/Bike2WorkPix'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[4 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/24/Tender-Sky-Shoehorn'>Tender Sky Shoehorn</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>In which I re­veal a lit­tle life-hack that can get you out your front door no­tice­ably quick­er. First, a pic­ture</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/24/Tender-Sky-Shoehorn'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[4 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/17/5X'>On the Nexus 5X</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>Wel­l, the <a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2015/04/16/One-Plus-Four'>OnePlus One</a> was a lot of phone for the mon­ey but, on­ly a year old, is dy­ing; the GPS has checked out and the pic­tures it takes look bad. I didn’t feel like phone-shopping but when I did, the 5X was an easy choice. It’s just fine, but on­ly three fea­tures mat­ter. With win­ter beach pix</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/17/5X'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[5 comments]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/11/CloudWatch-Events'>Cloud Eventing</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>So, I helped build Ama­zon CloudWatch Events (<a href='https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloudwatch-events-track-and-respond-to-changes-to-your-aws-resources/'>blog</a>, <a href='https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?region=us-east-1#events:'>AWS con­sole</a>), which just launched. Been a while since my last ex­tend­ed spell of be­ing an ac­tu­al soft­ware en­gi­neer. Ship­ping feels good</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2016/01/11/CloudWatch-Events'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[1 comment]</i>  </div>
<div class='os'><span class='ot'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2015/12/28/Mobile-Theses'>Mobile Counter-theses</a></span> · <span class='ofp'>This is in re­sponse to <a href='http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/12/15/16-mobile-theses'>16 mo­bile the­ses</a> by <a href='http://ben-evans.com/'>Bene­dict Evans</a> of An­dreesen Horow­itz, a firm that’s cen­tral to Bay Area VC cul­ture. The the­ses are about half wrong, which isn’t too bad</span><span class='el'><a href='/ongoing/When/201x/2015/12/28/Mobile-Theses'> ...</a></span><br/> <i>[6 comments]</i>  </div>
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