I woke up this morning to find that my website – this one – had gone down only a few minutes earlier. The host’s website, Gandi.net, was acting flaky and not letting me log in either, so I figured it was a widespread issue on their end. A few hours later, Gandi.net was working again,… Read more
It’s been a bit over four years since I moved this blog off of the old statically-built site, by iBlog 2, to WordPress. Apparently it’s time for an updated theme. Actually, Suffusion was pissing me off as per usual, and I accidentally applied a new theme when intending only to install it (apparently ‘Activating’ a… Read more
I’m attempting to switch to Lightroom, from Aperture, given lack of better alternatives. I’ve attempted this switch a couple of times before, without success. I’m finding that it’s still kind of annoying. Here’s the start of my laundry list against it: It’s very slow. I am already so very tired of seeing that blasted “Loading…”… Read more
So, I spent all this time & effort evaluating Capture One for its editing capabilities – deeming them the best out there right now, at least amongst the popular candidates – and yet I’m sadly not going to start using it. Why? Well, because it’s not finished. Which I say with some sense of irony,… Read more
This is the feedback I sent to Backblaze shortly before I cancelled my account with them. For the additional context – the restore failure I alluded to was basically that: So, the departing ‘support’ ticket I filed with them (#167833): Maybe this’ll help your future would-be customers. The main reason is that when I tried… Read more
Me: Hey, the D7100 with these particular lenses over-exposes by exactly one stop when not wide open. Nikon’s Support Website: Cool story bro. Got any pics? Me: Sure, here they are… Nikon’s Support Website: Sorry, all attachments have to be 10 MB or less. Me: U wot mate? … Me: Okay, I put them up on… Read more
Grrr. You get a shiny new lens and find out that it’s back-focusing horribly. Luckily it’s an awesome new Sigma lens which lets you adjust the autofocus system, via the handy Sigma USB Dock. Unfortunately, you use USB Overdrive. So when you connect the dock up, attach the lens, and launch Sigma’s “Sigma Optimisation Pro”… Read more