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Epinions Review: D-Link DGS-1005D

Every geek’s LAN takes on unhealthy proportions at some point or another. At first, it’s just two machines, his and her’s. Then a fileserver. Then a media server. Then a Bluray player. Next thing you know you know you’ve got network cables running through every room of your dwelling. When that happens, you need a [ READ MORE ]

The Wisecracker

  • February 11th, 2010
  • Posted in All . Bikes

I’ve only got one word for this thing: AWESOME! This marvelously thought up piece of machined aluminum was featured on BikeSnobNYC last tuesday, and from the moment I saw it I knew I had to get myself one. Ahrens made it easy too, you can order a Wisecracker directly from their website and checkout via Paypal. [ READ MORE ]

Grandma’s Kodachrome, Part 1

As I explained in a previous post, my relatively recent purchase of a film scanner, the Plustek Opticfilm 7200, was mostly to tolerated the fact that I was going to be dealing with film photography up until the purchase of a D300s to replace my D40. However, during the holidays, the new toy quickly found [ READ MORE ]

Set Gmail as Your Default Mail Client

  • January 18th, 2010
  • Posted in All

To me, mail clients are a thing that belong to the old internet, alongside all the other nasty Web 1.0 garbage: animated gifs of rotating type, cheesy repeating wallpapers and ugly text formatting are amongst those. I’ve been using GMail ever since I was OH-SO-LUCKY to receive an invite from a tech-savvy buddy of mine [ READ MORE ]

Plustek Opticfilm 7200 Review

I wrote up a more extensive review of my new, much beloved film scanner, a Plustek Opticfilm 7200, over at Epinions. Have a read: I’ve started shooting film again with an old hand-me-down SLR to practice my skills as a photograph in general, to get myself to think more about each shot before I pull the [ READ MORE ]

My Return to 35mm: Pentax Rig & Opticfilm 7200

Digital photography isn’t a fact anymore, it’s a standard. When I bought my DSLR over a year ago, I never even considered film as a viable option, even though my father’s Pentax Super Program was just begging to be used, old and dusty in a long forgotten bag. It’s not practical, it’s clunky, it’s expensive… [ READ MORE ]

Mt. Baldy Tees Up For Sale!

  • December 9th, 2009
  • Posted in All . Bikes

Jared Souneyis a Portland-based photograph and graphics designer who’s done a lot of work in BMX and skate.He has been on both my Twitter friends list and RSS reader for a while now. I can’t recall where I was linked to him, but I do know that the moment I landed on his site, I [ READ MORE ]

Reppin’ Animal

  • December 1st, 2009
  • Posted in All . Bikes

Believe it or not, it is because of Animal that I started to ride BMX. Back in the days in 8th, maybe 9th grade, we used to sneak into the school’s computer lab to watch some random Youtube videos. One day a friend of mine, I can’t recall if he now rides or not, came [ READ MORE ]

World Painted Blood

  • November 19th, 2009
  • Posted in All

I know, I know. I’m very late on this post, but a rather particular condition made it kind of difficult to a) get my paws on the actual album, and b) get to listen to it attentively and write up this little blurb. Every time I hear it, I go nuts. “There’s a new Slayer [ READ MORE ]

Converting Windows Server 2008 R2 to a Workstation OS

  • November 1st, 2009
  • Posted in All

In a previous post, I already told you how you can get a free, fully legit copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 directly from Microsoft if you are a student in pretty much any renown college or university. However, I understand that it is not exactly practical for anybody to run an unaltered server OS, [ READ MORE ]

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