Monthly Archives: November 2006

How to set up a Blog

So getting this blog set up was fairly easy — here’s what you need if you want to do it and if your site is hosted like mine. (GoDaddy is my domain service, and httpme is my host.) I downloaded WordPress (free blogging software), uncompressed the archive and uploaded it to the /blog/ directory on...

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The 85!

Lately I’ve have a number of people ask me about the lenses I’m using to achieve that weird-yet-cool-can’t-put-your-finger-on-it look in some of my shots. The secret? Canon’s 85mm f/1.2L. The lens itself is like a work of art, and it’s considered by many to be the Holy Grail of bokeh; the background blur it produces...

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How to sync your Google calendar to iCal without delegates

Sorry for getting off topic here — this is a community service post of sorts. I’m posted this in July 2010 but I am purposefully backdating it so it doesn’t clutter the blog — and if you actually FIND this post, it means you were probably intentionally looking for it. Getting on with it. My...

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