Photography Subject Specialisation
A common question I get when someone sees me with a camera is "What do you take photos of".. and I generally struggle to answer. Does one need a specialisation? Do other photographers have one? Do you need to be good at it?
Some stuff I like to take photos of, such as aircraft and stars, but often the opportunity, and to a lesser extent the equipment, make it hard. I take photos of sports events, but since I'm not into most sports and I generally don't even know the rules it'd be (...)
EMail has been around for over 40 years
..yeah. Really. It's been around in some form in the 70s, more standardised in the 80s, and was decently embedded in education and business in the 90s. Heck, there was a movie that was about an EMail based romance in the 90s... yet.... people keep making same embarrassing mistakes with stuff like replies. Not sure why. I still see cases in professional environments where people reply to a group EMail, expecting to get to the sender when in most cases it'll just go to the group (or at best an (...)
Dual and half double are sadly not the same
I've been into multi screen for 20+ years. Obviously it started with computers but it extended to laptops (probably a rant in itself) and phones as well. First time I got one was a on-sale LG V50. A very clunky device that was almost exactly what I wanted. I could at last solve the old problem of referring to X while working on Y, as well as monitoring Y while doing X. Sadly after a few years of use the case hinge cracked in a very odd way and I lost the second screen. Case? Yeah. The V50 is (...)
Collective Conversation
It's funny how collections evolve. I've been collecting things for a while, heck as a kid I collected pamphlets. What of? Anything really. In hindsight this must have annoyed many stores. This has led me to think of how you can define a collection. My current thoughts are;
- Starting: You have a few of a certain thing in a certain genre but you don't see it as a collection.
- Acknowledgement: You've decided you have a collection.
- Organisation: You have enough (...)
Employing a fitness strategy
Don't get a job as a professional programmer if you want to stay healthy.
Wow. This one was short. Hmm... maybe I'll expand. (No joke intended, but maybe I shouldn't confess about that.)
Continuing on from my last rant I've had issues with weight management for some time. Having an active job helped with this, but things change and I eventually got a job as a programmer which involved spending 8+ hours a day sitting down. Sometimes we'd work all night. The I did for 12 years (...)
The Sky was the limit
OneDrive... oh how I dislike how it's got. It used to be seen as a drive, like the name, now it's trying to masquerade as a one stop storage and backup stop. Which is a shame, as it's horrible as the latter, but generally useful as the former. I've been using it since it was SkyDrive, and I've got the "SkyDrive Photos" to prove it, so I've been riding this horse for a while.
I was one of the few who got into the Windows Phone thing. I got one of the Windows 7 phones, which I still (...)
Reference? Why the truck?
Don't I have better things to do, I'm sure you are asking. Well I do, but the whole point of the reference is saving time kinda. Take the first Reference page. Space Shuttles. I frequently lose track of what one is what and this page, for one, has increased the chance of me actually remembering it this time, but most of all, it gives me a place to gather and share new information. This will save me time as I do have a bad habit of getting caught up in a research spiral over the same topics. (...)
Shuttles; all of them
US Shuttles
Test Articles
(...)| Designation | Name | ...also known as | Location | Notes |
| Inspiration | Columbia Memorial Space Center | Made by Rockwell. First mockup, made of wood, plastic and paper. More on this in Noteworthy Replicas... | ||
| OV-095 | Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) mockup | Houston | Just a cockpit.... I think. |
New Year, old issue, same solution
My custom site and this site have the current year displayed. Mine is a php element that is used by most pages, this one.... dunno actully. Could be a setting... Need to look into that. Mine is a manual change I do (generally) in early Janurary. But I've often considered making the year auto-update. But there's so many reasons why I don't. For one, the date is based on the server time, which won't align to everyones time so it's going to be at least (...)
Beware the remote desktop password fail
Got my server mostly done now. But one issue has made things complicated; my inability to use Microsoft Remote Desktop on my default profile. To expand, I made my server from the innards of my older desktop to save money. This was the plan before the memory crisis, and by the time I did it, the plan made even more sense. Thus my default profile was active and had on it several years of usage. Stuff I lost unexpectantly when I turned my desktop into the server. It all came out of no where, (...)
