Posts by Fletch

I like iTunes a lot. I've been a WinAmp fan since the beginning, and it took me a long time to accpt iTunes. I thought iTunes was too big on the screen and took up too much memory. I liked that I could get WinAmp down to a minimal space and memory footprint. What did it for me was that iTunes approaches your library as music, while WinAmp approaches it as files.

You have to really look hard to see a file name in iTunes. It treats every files as a song and gives you that information in a well laid out and organized fashion (something WinAmp lacked for a very long time). WinAmp always seemed to be at the mercy of people's poor file labeling and id3 tagging. When I stick in a CD to iTunes, it will rip and file it away without me having to tell it where to put it or how to file it. It starts paying the songs as I rip. Same sort of reverse funcationality with burning. It just works, and it works in a way that I appreciate and my sister can still understand. WinAmp just no longer does it for me. While I still appreciate it's simplicity, it just seems like it lacks refinement. It's great for playing files, but it doesn't do it for me when it comes to overal library management.

And don't get me started on the clusterfuck that is Media Player. If any of you use Media Player to manage your library, you deserve for your computer to catch fire.

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Decided to see how my new camera backpack would hold up to hiking conditions, so I went to the local nature preserve last weekend. The sun started going down so I ended up just playing with light and shadow for the most part.

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I don't think they're trying to replace DVDs, merely provide an alternative. If I was constantly traveling or in situations where I needed a good time killer, I would be on board iPod video so fast. But I don't realy have a need right now. I like my 4th Generation 40GB with photo capability. When it dies, I'll get one of the sexier new ones. 80GB does sound mighty appealing, though.

I'm staying away from Vista as long as humanly possible. I've disagreed with almsot every design decision I've heard of from them. Seems like you get an undodly resource footprint, ridiculously expensive UI, less ability to turn off features you don't like, and more phoning home to Microsoft every 5 seconds.

I'll pass. I loved Win2K, and it took me a long damn time to move to XP Pro (which I still think has too much bloatware to it). I'm not moving until I have a good reason (of which Microsoft has given me none).

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how close can you bring objects with this and is it compatible with my eos350d?

According to the specs, 4 feet, but it's not intended for macro use. And no it won't work with your camera. It's a Nikon lens. Nikon and Cannon don't play nice.

Tell your friend to stop using Mapcore as a way to send important messages.

Finally bit the bullet and ordered a new lens for my camera. I'm happy with my 18-55mm kit lens that came with my D50, but I wanted a nice zoom without having to shell out a thousand bucks. I was going to go for the 18-200mm VR that Nikon put out this year, but those things have become so freaking popular there is a 6 month wait. So I decided to go for Nikon's new 70-300mm VR instead. It's a few hundred cheaper since it is intended to be a zoom lens and not replace the standard 18-70 range lenses, but it still retains all of the sexiness of the 18-200, including the wonderful vibration reducation (VR) feature that should make life better at 300mm without a tripod.

Unfortunately this thing doesn't come out until October, so I can just stare at it's pretty picture.

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that should probably be half checks for both since there won't be nearly enough in the first shipment.

Quote from Taylor

Has Sony managed to get anything right this generation?

The PSP... oh wait...

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slightly redundant: so? if it's not standard-compliant, why even bother considering it?

Because MS is throwing around their considerable market share to get the standards changed in their favor. IE7 will be the new defacto internet browser (downloaded via critical update and bundled with Vista). Sure, it's a dickheaded thing to do, but they're doing it anyway. Big companies can't afford to have their sites be non IE7 compliant.

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Do you have a perm?

pssh, don't even bother with CSS. Microsfot is going to fuck up CSS standards when they put IE7 out.

Damn, sounds like a fun trip. I'm jealous. I love long train rides (especially with booze, women, and guitars).

The first time I was playing a game online (Interstate 76), it asked me for a nickname. I didn't have one. I was listening to the radio and a local DJ was named Fletch.

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You can't rotate a model in Source?

I was about to say "hit the space bar a few times until the rotate widget came up" before I realized what I was saying. Feckin' Unreal hotkeys have taken me over.

I wish I had ADobe Acrobat 7.0

I understand why some people would be offended. It's a 50/50 call on whether they should have changed it. It's not as though you've got the time to reshoot the opening, but they could have started it with Conan walking out of the water and still achieved the joke. It's a tough call. They probably should have at least given the heads up to the affiliates in Kentucky so they could run commercials over it or something.

Went out shooting today trying to confirm a place I found on Google Earth. The good news is that what I was looking for (some abandonned railway bridges) was there. The bad news is a park ranger found my car and interrupted my shooting trip before I got to do anything cool. At least he was nice about telling me to leave, plus he liked my camera. So this is the only good shot from that half-adventure:

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The sun was slowly going down and I felt bummed that I had driven half an hour for virtually nothing, so I decided to stop off at a local park and take some sunset pictures. Sure, it's trite, but they always turn out pretty.

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