Computer Ninja’s Weblog

I’ve been meaning to post this on my blog, but had forgotten to do so as I emailed it out to a handful of friends.

Here is the story:

Someone who works at a University in Eastern Washington was reading the CNN/Money article about the top 100 places to live in 2008.

He went here: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2008/snapshots/PL2672818.html and saw my picture and remembered meeting me and remembered that I worked at WSU. He sent an email to the general financial aid e-mail address asking if anyone knew who the man in the picture was.

Best places to live 2008 - Shelby, MI - from MONEY Magazine

Tags: Benjamin, Best Places to Live 2008, CNN, fishing, Fishing Derby, Shelby Township

I used this the other day when I sent Alex a link. Nice to read about it a few days later!

TinyURL finally adds vanity URLs | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

Tags: custom, Internet, tinyurl, web

Paul Stamatiou points out that his internet connection was actually being maxed out with using 802.11g. He had to upgrade his network to 802.11n to get the full throughput his internet service provider offered.

Maybe Comcast will get us DOCSIS 3.0 pretty soon so we can at least have 30Mbit/s connectivity.

His connection speed:

Read his post, link is below:

My Internet Connection Maxed Out 802.11g - PaulStamatiou.com

Tags: 802.11g, 802.11n, Comcast, DirecPath, DOCSIS 3.0, Internet, ISP, Speedtest.net

Good to see that the folks at Mozilla have made great strides to make Firefox a fantastic browser when it comes to memory management. It used to be that Firefox was a nasty memory pig.

Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison

Tags: Browser, Firefox, Memory Management, Mozilla, web

I have been fascinated by HDR images I’ve seen over there years, and I’ve always wanted to try to create some myself. This one, I took with my handy-dandy Canon SD1000. I just used exposure compensation by putting the camera in manual mode and mapping the print button to the exposure controls. I took (5) images at -2, -1, 0, +1, and +2 EV and used HDR Soft’s Photomatix Pro 2.5.4 on the Mac (PC version exists as well).

One of the tutorials I’ve read is this one, which goes through the process and has some dazzling images to feast your eyes upon as well. Here is another tutorial.

Tags: Canon, HDR, photography, Photomatix Pro, tutorial