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Buy.com has 1gb Kingston CF cards for $29.95 after a $9 rebate. I didn’t know Kingston was even making CF cards, but they’re pretty good as making memory so it should at least be decent.

The creator of the SimpleViewer Flash applet – you’ve seen it even if you didn’t know what it was called – has created another great one called Auto Viewer. It displays images in linear series, much like a film strip. There is an example on his site.

This is an image from last year that I found while going back through my images. The color version was lacking, so I had skipped over it on first pass. But after converting to black & white, I found I really like the image.

Ok, so I’m kind of in a rut. There’s something about black & white trees that really appeal to me. I think it’s the textures.
This one is from Bear Creek Park in Houston.

Pending regulatory review, Micron Technology is going to purchase Lexar in a stock-to-stock merger. According to the press release linked below this is being done to allow Micron to control their production of flash memory devices from design through sales.

Announced March 8, 2006, the merger is expected to end during Q3 of ‘06 and [...]

Warning: This is a blatent plug for another site I’m developing.
I started a tutorial posting on ProPhotoForum – a site I’m a moderator on – on the steps required for building a web site from scratch. I’ve discovered that for most people new to web development, knowing where to start is the [...]

Here’s a quick video on how to create a mini seamless background setup from eBay.

I know this is about 6 months late, but here are some images from when my wife and I decided that we needed to evacuate from Houston to Austin when Hurricane Rita blew through. Turns out there wasn’t even any wind damage to our house. Heck, the rose bushes still had all their leaves. [...]

I suppose it’s a good sign. It must mean my little corner of the internet is at least getting linked to somewhere. Comment spammers have started hitting me pretty hard. Fortunately I moderate all the comments so they won’t show up. But it’s still a pain to deal with them.