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Organizing and preserving 10 years of digital photography 23 Aug 2013 | 05:31 am
In the next month, it will be 10 year since I got my first digital camera, an Olympus C750UZ. Since then I went through a Canon S2 in 2007 and a dSLR Canon 500D/T1i in 2009. In 2008 I also introduced ...
Kids, revisited 13 Aug 2013 | 07:45 am
There is a not-so-visited spot along the river Thames that has majestic views of the Houses of Parliament. You get there by crossing the Westminster bridge right in front of Big Ben, and then, instead...
A Live Birth 5 Aug 2013 | 06:14 am
Three weeks ago we had our twin girls born. I was inside the delivery room for the whole process of natural delivery, which lasted about 20 hours. The final 3 hours that included all the pushing and ...
Switching to OSX 4 Jul 2013 | 08:19 pm
An interesting thing happened the other day. I forgot my MacBook Air 13" inside the aircraft on my flight back from Greece. I was using only Windows 7 in that machine. The laptop was thankfully retr...
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump 3 Jun 2013 | 04:13 am
The are two reasons why I love the above painting by Joseph Wright of Derby from 1768. First, the painting depicts a scientific experiment. These air pump devices were common in the 18th century. Sci...
Game of Thrones and the United States of America 21 May 2013 | 06:53 pm
I started watching Game of Thrones recently. While it is a medieval fantasy world, I cannot avoid thinking that many practices depicted in the series have strong elements of truth from the actual medi...
Science is not a democracy 18 Apr 2013 | 07:49 pm
In my last post I argued that believing in an anthropomorphic God is not a choice, where the two options are of equal value. This is because there is no reliable evidence yet on the presence of an ear...
Apology to theists 12 Apr 2013 | 08:02 am
I am an atheist. I used to think that believing in God or not was a choice. I admired people that didn't, and didn't care about people that did. Not anymore. I have come to think that believing in G...
Ted at the Oscars 25 Feb 2013 | 09:47 pm
fxguide.com on how a digital Ted presented the sound Oscars last night: With five nominees in each category, 10 different outcomes were rendered (Tippett relied on Dell Precision workstations) in a f...
It was the church, stupid 24 Feb 2013 | 08:46 pm
I always wondered why modern astronomy didn't flourish in the sunny, warm climates of the Mediterranean during the renaissance and beyond. The birth of modern astronomy was dominated by Northern Euro...
