
Posted on January 27th, 2009.

Nikon D09
In August of 2007 I decided to purchase a small, lightweight point-and-shoot digital camera. In a post about the camera I said, “…I’m a purist… I would never give up my film camera for digital….” Over the past year and a half I learned quite a bit about digital photography. I also learned how to eat my words (they just need a little salt), and recently decided it was time I make a digital SLR my primary instrument. Last week, after many weeks of reading, research, and thinking, I purchased the Nikon D90.
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Posted on December 14th, 2008.
I’ve been using RedBubble since October of this year to sell some of my photographs. It’s a great site, with a thriving, fun artist community. The site is still relatively young, and is missing a few features that would be very helpful to those trying to sell their works. One such feature is a tracking system, like Google Analytics, which would help artists better target communicaitions and advertising campaigns. At this point RedBubble does not offer Google Analytics support, but there is a way to pass limited information along to Google Analytics for tracking purposes.
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Posted on November 5th, 2008.
My final post on MythTV revolves around tweaking MythTV and Ubuntu. I’ve picked up a number of ideas from a variety of sites and compiled the tricks, tips, hacks, and configurations that work best for my setup. You can read my first MythTV post on hardware and my second post on Ubuntu and MythTV installation and setup for background on the particulars of my setup.
Continue reading: MythTV III: The Final Chapter

Posted on September 9th, 2008.
I ran into the same problem in each of the two Ubuntu installs that I recently completed. The initial install failed, and the RAID arrays I had setup could not be deleted. This became a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in the way of completing the install process. In the first instance I finally did a complete wipe of all hard drives that had any part of the RAID configuration. Not wanting to go through that long process again I delved into finding a more sensible solution.
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