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Who am I?

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:37:07 -0700

I've not been back here to Vox in such a while... March? Four months! I guess I have to decide what my focus here is. Why post here and not in another blog? Will consider.

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Photo tidiness

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:50:08 -0700

Been a bit absent as have mostly moved to my other blog, but wanting to keep a toe in here at Vox as there's lots to see.

Just watched a podcast on "Why DNG?" (instead of saving photos in a proprietary camera raw format) and so shall I do.

Also, am following the good advise of Mark and...

The high road on this is to use the camera card, transfer the files - back up the files, so they exist on at least two different elements (hard drives, CDs, etc.), THEN put the card back in the camera and format it - it erases the previous images, but since they are backed up that's no big deal. This creates a new directory for the card for shooting and since you are starting with a fresh directory each time, there is minimal chance of the directory getting fragmented which leads to data loss.

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What thinks Mr. Fry?

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:07:18 -0800

The ever-amusing Stephen Fry waxes geeky.

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Paper - wrapping, writing, poo poo, ... huh?

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:30:52 -0800

Poo Poo Paper (paper made from elephant poo). 100% post-consumer recycled wrapping paper. Stationery from old NYC subway maps.

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Wind power completely rethought (plus car stuff)

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:05:31 -0800

Instead of rotating windmills, what about a vibrating belt. The Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster started this train of thought. Very very interesting. And instead of buying a car, why not share a car? Or get a cool Smart Car beginning at $11k/US. I like yellow, I think, since there is no purple or green.

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Water resource problems in Africa

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:15:01 -0800

Someone has come up with a very clever and simple solution to lack of clean water in sub-saharan Africa, it seems. (Hint: it's a merry-go-round)

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Zingy Turkey leftover recipes

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:30:32 -0800

Found these recipe ideas for extra turkey, with a spicy Mexican twist.

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Cats...you know it's true

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:51:29 -0800

Thanks for the laugh, Art and Tea.

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Portrait Monday

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:36:25 -0800

Tim Burton portrait, Photoshop

Two quite nice portraits.

Barryotto-byJaneBesley

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Effective imagery

nobody@vox.com(asfein) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:21:17 -0800

Predator-imagery

Was watching the TFI (news, France) broadcast and was struck by this image which was apparently developed for a "beware of online predators of children" campaign. Beautifully succinct.

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