I know. It’s been a few months since my last post. But what’s a few months, in the grand scheme of things?
Stick that in your perspective and smoke it. It’s worth clicking through to the HD version.
Photography
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Dec 07
NSID
A couple years ago, when I still worked for IBM, there came a point – about a week into December – when I realised that I had no more user lab sessions, no more customer travel – that I had no particular reason to keep myself presentable. This was an opportunity not to be ignored.
I tend to shave pretty regularly, and I think people tend to prefer it that way, for the most part. I do too, really. But sometimes you need a chance to stretch your follicles and see what you’d look like if only. And so, NSID was born:
No Shaving In December
I have been delinquent in not introducing the concept sooner, but in truth, the first NSID was not a full month long anyhow, and we keepers of the faith welcome late arrivals in any case. Don’t view it as a contest, or a strict discipline, view it as an opportunity.
If you have to shave early because of some social function – so be it – consider resuming your hobo look afterwards if there’s still time. If you have to shave it because it itches like an unholy FIRE, that’s okay. NSID is not about judgement. It’s about self-actualization which, unless I am sorely mistaken, and I’m not, is right at the tippy-top of the god damned pyramid. It’s the gift you give yourself.
Know too that you are not alone. I am here. Robcee is here. Beltzner and bhearsum and claire are here too. Shaver defied the destiny of his very name to join our motley crew, and mconnor is a member by default.
We have a flickr pool. You know what to do.
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May 07
Unseen Backwards Flying Pigeon Kick
We have returned safely. Pictures are here, for your considered appraisal. On first glance, my personal favourites include this one,
this one,
and this one,
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Jul 06
Photo Linkage
Everyone with a soul needs to go look at this flickr pool. So many great shots.
[Photo credit: dotpolka]
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Jun 06
Enough with the bloody birds already
Taken this weekend up at Barb & Barry’s place, north of Orangeville. At time of shooting this little guy has literally just fledged – he was the last of his sibs to leave the nest, and wasn’t quite smart enough yet to fear me and my camera.
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Jan 06
The Megapixel Myth
Now I’m not saying I know a damned thing about photography. I know what aperture does to your depth of field, I know why high speed film is grainy (even when it’s high speed digital “film”) and I know why a fast 1200mm lens makes an excellent christmas gift, but that’s mostly about technology, not photography. The kids in Born Into Brothels didn’t know any of that stuff and they shot more powerful photos with dollar store 35mm point and clicks than I will likely ever manage with cameras far more spiffy than I will ever buy. Photography is about taking the things that you see in the world and capturing them so that other people (including future instances of yourself) can see them the same way you did. In a sense this is, of course, impossible for a host of reasons but basically you take a photo so that later you can look at the photo and go, oh yeah, remember that?
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Jan 06
Please No Shopping Carts Inside The Restaurant
For those who, according to the BS pop-psych uncalibrated self-tests they had everyone do in 1987, are “visual learners,” or “greens,” or “type IIIs,” or “QNTZs,” or “hippies,” I have finally put something in my flickr account, and provided suitable linkage herefrom. May I present then, without further pomp or ado,
Photos That Please Me – a photoset on Flickr
I believe I was the photographer on every one in which I am not a subject, so hefty derivative cheques come hither. It should be noted that this reexamination of old pictures was greatly facilitated by Picasa2, which you should all go download.
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Jun 08
Hello Vancouver! Briefly!
I had a lot of help from several people, most notably Shaver, in putting this presentation together; my goal is to keep adapting it and ideally get other people giving it as well. Security is something that the Mozilla project has a lot of experience with, and a lot to be proud of. It is important to our mission that we share that expertise. Even when what we’re saying isn’t new (“have unit tests”), the fact that we have achieved the success we have lets us be a proof point for people trying to make change in their own projects (“Mozilla didn’t think code review was too time-intensive.”)
I may not be an official member of the evangelism team, but I will do whatever I can to encourage more people in our community to take their knowledge outbound. We are doing crazy awesome stuff here (how many IT people, on the planet, have dealt with what Justin’s team has?) and we should consider it an obligation to spread that knowledge around. Heck, that’s actually sort of what my talk is about.