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I was flipping through some photos that I took a few days ago, and finally stumbled across a great example of HDR vs. non-HDR pictures.  The first one is non-HDR.  You can see that our model, Havana, is generally lighter colored, and better lit.   In the HDR photo, Havana is darker, but now pay […]

One of many links I kept in Evernote, putting up on my blog for easy reference. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/retirement/050416/8-countries-where-200k-retirement-savings-will-last-30-years.asp

Here’s an interesting article that I was forwarded. It has some examples of how “correctly” visualizing data can save lives in scenarios ranging from a cholera outbreak to the Challenger explosion. A good read!  

Just a quick note – I was struggling with Airplay “suddenly” not working from my desktop iMac 5k to my 4th generation Apple TV.  When I would try to extend my desktop to the Apple TV, the TV would blank out and sound would start coming from the TV.  No video would show at all […]

Visited a web page, and saw this image most of the way down the page:           While it’s important to keep Flash up to date, I recommend you do what I do and disable it!  Nice try Flash, but you get to stay disabled.

I work out of my home, and truly enjoy that.  I also spend a lot of my personal time in my home office, and so I have always had a TV and entertainment stuff in here with me. We recently moved back to our house in Florida, and I started my home office from scratch. […]

Take a look at this video. It’s all good, but starting at about 55 seconds in, you’ll see a perfect shot of two stages separating. Honestly, if you didn’t know it was real, you would have to believe that Hollywood did it with CGI.

As your TFS environment grows, as well as your software stack that’s built within it, it can be easy to overlook some pretty simple things to keep performance where it needs to be. On occasion we had noticed that builds slowed down dramatically, resulting in cranky developers and dev managers.  While space on the build […]

I recently began running into a problem where my iPhone 6 wouldn’t charge reliably.  If I wiggled the cable around it would start charging, then stop again.  I tried diagnosing it by using different cables and different orientations for them, but none of the solutions were reliable. It turns out this would seem to be […]