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
Marisa & I finally saw Brave tonight. As expected from the boringly predictable Pixar, it was great. The only downside was that it was short. I guess I’m used to three hour movies now.
In addition to the frustrating lack of reliability of Company of Heroes as a software product, I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with some aspects of the gameplay itself. One aspect in particular is the behaviour of units. When you give an order to units in that game, they ostensibly follow it. But oftentimes they don’t, for… Read more