Dave's garage
Dave Plummer had a cool video with associated source last week highlighting some of the how's and why's of Windows ASM software. It's an interesting summary of the power of Windows software... and at the same time why it's a bit pointless doing ASM; you're at the mercy of the Win32 libraries so if they are not running as efficient as your own code you are no longer the (...)
Mega Memory Menance
I bought the ASUS ROG Flow Z13-KJP. Pretty cool machine which I like very much, and I really haven't done much that really pushes it that hard. Mostly photo work, which it handles well as it has 128 GB of RAM..... yeah.... crazy stuff. But while that's really cool and useful and all, it does come with issues. Mostly in relation to when you're not using it. Sleep and hibernation.... yeah. Keeping alive that much memory uses a lot of battery life and I haven't got around to testing how long it (...)
Fitted For But Not With Mirror
So what is the deal with "Mirrorless" cameras? One of the most silly ways to describe a product; by something it hasn't got. EFI wasn't called Carb-less after all. I suppose it's the result of "DSLR"s (Digital Single Lens Reflex) being so descriptive... but... really it wasn't all about that. The SLR was just one aspect of the cameras, what was really just as important was the ability to change lenses, focus, change, aperture and shutter speed. "DSLR" is a (...)
One Year Later
So I've been at this zen Slog thing for over a year now... and not really achieving the primary goal sad to say. Or even the secondary goal. But keeping it active was a goal so that's all good. I really do need to get back to the whole software aspect though, which should be easier now I've mostly caught up on my photo sorting backlog. Hurrah!
Sunk Time Truthality
Sometimes I spend so much time researching a product I end up buying something just to make the time spent researching not a waste of time. 'cos otherwise I'm likely to just go and do the research again and then end up with the same dilemma. That's the problem of today; it's hard to believe anything in product specs or reviews. People can be wrong, mis-informed, lying, or just have different perspective/priorities to you. So IMHO you've gotta read the specs and read (...)
Wind up Wind down
Back on language? Yeah. But this one really did get me thinking. I was asked if I was going to sleep soon and I said something like "Yeah, I'm just winding up a few things." To my surprise I got the reply "Don't you mean 'wind down'".... and I'm not really sure what I said back as it's kinda interesting.
To me "wind up" is what I meant. To me it means finishing up, with the comparison being that you wind up clocks before (...)
Charity is not really my thing
As said before, I need the exercise. So when a charity step challenge was mentioned at work I figured..... sure, why not? But holistically I think it's gonna be a fail for me. But prove me wrong; here's a link to Starlight Super Steps
So why the negativity? Well mostly 'cos charity really isn't my thing. I see these organisations that run (...)
View to a wall
Stayed in a hotel recently and I was able to pick the room and floor online with the app. 13th floor. I thought "this'll be a good view of XX". I even brought a tripod. Seemed like a good plan. But nope. My view was to a neighbouring wall about a meter away.. If I got real close to the window and looked forward I could kinda see something. But not really.
I do wonder what's the point in this. A bad view, such as blocked (...)
So ten months later I've caught up
I got behind on photos some months ago, and it really just kept getting worse. But it's done. I'm actually caught up... kinda. I suspect I'm really not as to get to this point I've been ignoring other stuff like video work. But it's a point.
It's funny really. While I had the time to sort them a combination of having a lot to sort plus a computer that was inadequate to the task (no names; it was low end and if you buy (...)
Recreating eighties recording tech
Dual cassette decks used to be king. You'd copy your records (vinyls) to cassette so you could play it in your Walkman (huh, just realised how lame I am; I get annoyed at people saying iPod and here I am saying "Walkman"), or off the radio if you we're feeling cheap/naughty, and with the second deck you could make your own mixtapes from even other tapes. Did the Recording Companies care? Not too much as they knew you couldn't do a perfect copy; with each generation the quality degraded so (...)
