Microsoft Customer Service has lost a loyal customer After his fourth Xbox 360 dies, Eric’s not a happy camper (tags: Xbox360 microsoft) Blind Date: Games Edition Ok, so this post is a bit cheesy. But how many games do you buy without a good demo first… and isn’t that a bit like a blind date? […]
Month: April 2007
Avoiding Photographic Regrets
Jim Goldstein writes in If I Only I Knew Then What I Know Now: The art of improving is by harnessing ones frustration, dissatisfaction and/or curiosity. Pushing oneself to not just practice, but research and experiment is the key to mastering photography… technically in camera or with post-processing. With that in mind the one piece […]
It’s A Beautiful Day
The weather was absolutely beautiful last week in Columbus GA, and Monday afternoon I had some free time, so I took a walk downtown. Here’s a water tower and building under re-construction, right alongside the Chattahoochee River.
links for 2007-04-26
Renting vs. Buying Remind me to check out Gamefly (tags: Xbox360 Videogame) America at a Crossroads | PBS NPR : Bill Moyers, Back on the Beat “Buying the War” Dan Heller on Keywording and the future of stock photography (tags: photography tagging)
Daemon
I just finished reading, upon recommendation from Rick Klau, a techno-thriller called Daemon. Wow. Scary wow. Not Amityville Horror scary or The Shining scary, but Andromeda Strain scary, or Rainbow Six scary – enough “reality” to make you believe that, though the whole story’s an unlikely one, parts of something like this could happen. [much […]
Who’s Carrying Who?
links for 2007-04-21
Forza Motorsport 2: The Car List (So Far!) Cars, cars, cars, and more cars – there are 310 of them to be in Forza 2, scheduled to be shipping soon. (tags: Xbox360 Racing Driving Videogame) Sanders Says: Don’t live on poison Next week will/can/must be a better week. It’s your thought. Brian Oberkirch on reducing […]
Don’t Show the Video
For whatever it’s worth, I completely agree with Tim Sanders’ Don’t make killers rock stars [part 1] & [part 2]. Sports directors have long ago gotten smart enough to not show streakers or other fans who jump onto the field, knowing that the reason they do it is to get attention. Once the TV stations […]
Talk About Value, not Technology
Jon Udell, in Talking to everyone, asks How do you talk to everyone about the transformative benefits of the technologies we’re so excited about, in ways that don’t make people flip the bozo switch and tune you out? How do you tell stories that make the benefits of the technology come alive for people, in […]
On Photo Retouching, a Third Time
Steve Crandall, quoted in 2004: “It may be that independent cooberation of photos (several images taken from different cameras) are required to give a warm feeling of truth.” This week in Toledo, when several pictures of the same event were compared one was different: “Each paper had its own similar Bluffton picture. But The Blade’s […]