This is a fantastic game if you love spending hours meticulously crafting a beautiful empire, micro-optimising it to a cutting edge, and then having the AI come in and wipe you out instantly. Fun for the whole family. As best I can tell it’s fatally buggy, because it lets the AI essentially cheat, and you… Read more
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 a follow-up to my previous Raw converter comparison – you can see that post for info on things like my motivation, basic processing methods, etc. The goal in this case is just to test how well each raw editor – Aperture 3.6, Capture One 9 Pro, DxO Optics 10, and Lightroom CC 2015.3… Read more
Prelude For better or worse, Aperture is dying. Abandoned by Apple many years ago now, it’s frankly amazing it hasn’t completely broken already, given the steady stream of system updates and such changes since then. Regardless, it has always had rough edges, and on top of all that I’ve grown increasingly disappointed with its image… Read more