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The Big Picture

The Big Picture is one of my favorite new websites. Every few days developer and curator Alan Taylor publishes his latest photography finds from the news wires.  And like the title suggests, the pictures are big, bigger than you see on most sites.  I especially liked a recent collection of photos taken around Beijing as [...]

OpenDNS, use it

You really owe it to yourself to start using OpenDNS for three reasons: it’s free, it’ll speed up your web surfing (a little), and it will help protect you against phishing attempts, drive-by downloads, and other evil things created by the evildoers of the Internet.
The last reason is the most important, especialy now. In case [...]

Photo presentation in Firefox vs. Safari

I was shocked, shocked! to discover recently that my beloved Firefox appeared to be reinterpreting the color and exposure of my photos when I viewed them online. The strange thing was that I noticed the difference in Firefox only when viewing my own photos on Flickr, then on my website (this one you’re reading [...]

Easy Money

Did the “easy money” title catch your eye? Are you looking to make a little bit of money with minimal effort? I’m not saying it’s a guar-an-tee that you will, and it probably won’t come fast, but it might just happen to you. It did to me.
Here’s all you have to do: choose DreamHost [...]

Hodgepodge

Yesterday, I used the word “hodgepodge” in a sentence and wondered later what that word really meant and where it came from. So I Googled it. Merriam-Webster defines it as “a heterogeneous mixture” while Wikipedia reports it is derived from the Middle English word hochepot, which is a “dish of many mixed ingredients, especially [...]

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