In a word: clusterfuck. I really enjoyed Modern Warfare. It’s one of my favourite FPS’s of all time. It was fun, challenging, had an interesting storyline… it was “realistic” but not to the point of losing the whole point of the game – to be a game, a form of entertainment. Alas, Black Ops is… Read more
Marisa & I had booked, nearly two months ago, a campsite in Yosemite for this weekend. We’d been looking forward to it greatly. And then this Hantavirus “outbreak” is announced, and gets worse over the weekend – more deaths, more confirmed cases, more suspect areas of the park – and, well shit. After much consternation,… Read more
Hehe… it’s kind of fun to be reading an article and see an error message you wrote. (or at least think I wrote; I honestly can’t remember now, but it feels like one of mine) ‘Purge’ command not working in OS X 10.8.1 | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews. It’s also laughable that the authors of… Read more
I’ve had a circular polarising filter on my 55-300 since I got it, since it came with one. It also came with a UV filter, which I’ve never used. I also bought a circular polarising filter for my 18-55, on the assumption that the filter made everything unequivocally better. But then I started to pay… Read more
A few weeks back I went on a white-water rafting trip, taking with my Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-TX10. It worked pretty well the whole trip, but at the end of the day I discovered that there was a crack in the case, with a small chunk missing. Well shit. I’d babied it the whole day, being… Read more
I bought some extension tubes from Cameta Camera, via Amazon, about two weeks ago. The product page was titled: Vivitar Professional Metal Macro Automatic Extension Tube Set of 3 for Nikon (13mm, 21mm & 31mm) I suppose I should have caught on that something was wrong by the fact that the description for the same… Read more
Ugh… random tip: the Nikon D3200 will refuse to take a shot, while tethered, unless there is an SD card in the camera. Even if you turn off shutter lock (which does work when not tethering). Also, Live View isn’t available at all while tethering. That’s annoying. The point of tethering is to get precise studio/macro… Read more