Megen and I had traditional afternoon tea yesterday and couldn’t help overhearing an infuriating conversation coming from the table next to us. The table consisted of a mother and her daughter (the daughter was likely in her 20s) and another woman. They were discussing trivial things like purchasing new sofas and how filling the scones [...]
People have been asking for this feature to be added to FF To Go but I wasn’t really happy with any of the solutions I came up with. Ideally there would be a call I could make to the FriendFeed API to get the body of a comment but that does not exist. In the [...]
Distributed revision control systems are all the rage. I used to use Bazaar (bzr) for everything; it’s easy to get up and running with a very low barrier to entry especially for those coming from systems like Subversion (svn). I really had absolutely no problems with bzr but decided to give Git a try when [...]
I’ve been meaning to open source FF To Go and try out git; today I accomplished both. FF To Go source code is available at GitHub. It’s under the MIT license. Check out the code and submit patches if you’d like.
So far I like git but I need more time with it before I make [...]
I purchased a DK-21M magnifying eyepiece for my D40 a few weeks ago. It magnifies the image that you see in your viewfinder by 1.17x. This might seem insignificant but I’ve found it to tremendously useful for aiding in manual focus. Many lenses do not auto focus for the D40 because it lacks a motor; [...]
