Ryan on January 7th, 2011

It’s been almost 2 years since I’ve put up a post here, and that’s just sad. But I got a blogging bug in between my ears over the winter holidays and felt the urge to get this blog going again. So here we are with a new year, a new theme, and hopefully enough motivation [...]

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Ryan on September 28th, 2008

I came across something I wanted to write about here and realized that I haven’t posted since April of 2007.  That’s just sad.  So I’m back with a new theme and a little more motivation to keep this site up and going. I’m still as much of a photo geek as ever, so I’m going [...]

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Ryan on November 2nd, 2006

Canon released a new version of the EOS 30d firmware. It’s available from their site. The new firmware fixes a bug where the camera misreports how many shots are remaining in continuous mode and adds a semi gloss paper option for direct printing.

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Ryan on May 27th, 2006

Well, figure it’s time to drop auto moderation of all the comments. It’s just too much trouble going through 400+ comments to find the 3 that are from real people when Akismet does such a good job.

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Ryan on March 3rd, 2006

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 hardest part. [...]

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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.

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Ryan on February 25th, 2006

As part of the PMA show, Canon announced two new printers in their Pixma line – the Pixma MP800R and the MP830. Both use Canon’s ContrastPLUS ink system and deliver 9600x2400dpi. The MP830 can print up to 30 pages per minute black and white and 24 pages per minute in colo. The MP830 has IRDa [...]

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Ryan on January 13th, 2006

I decided to dump another photography site of mine that was living on a subdomain, but I didn’t want all the postings to go away. So, I’m in process of moving them over to this site.

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