Posts Tagged ‘flickr’

Flickrsanity

Monday, June 21st, 2010

You gotta love when a small company gets taken over by a big faceless giant, and you start getting left-hand/right-hand problems where, for example, one group in a company will add a nifty feature to the product that reduces the pain of working with said company tremendously, only to have someone else in the same company make a change that sabotages all the work of the first group.

Someone at Yahoo added a feature to the Flickr Uploader that lets it automatically determine image rotation.

Someone else at Yahoo added a feature to the website that lets it automatically determine image rotation.

No one at Yahoo bothered to see if the two systems work together, so you have situation where the auto-rotation-magic of the Flickr Uploader is wiped out by the auto-rotation-magic of the website’s back end processes.

Morons.

Mac ScreenSaverEngine out of control memory usage

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

I suspect the size of my iPhoto library has something to do with the fact that the ScreenSaverEngine.app process has grown to a 12Gb VSize.    I will have to monitor that, see if it continues to grow.  I’m taking a lot of pictures with the new camera.  I ended up with over 1700 for the Maritime Festival, which totally broke the Flickr Uploadr =(

Seattle Tattoo Convention

Saturday, April 17th, 2010


Skulls on her knees

Originally uploaded by Xymon

Slave to the Needle hosted a tattoo convention in Seattle this weekend, so I thought I’d check it out. Saw lots of nifty pics of tats, lots of people getting tats, and even an iPad out in the wild.

Glitter lamp in the dark

Friday, January 29th, 2010


Glitter lamp in the dark

Originally uploaded by Xymon

My first experiments with light painting gave me more ideas than usable images. I picked up a couple of new light sources while I was working on another project, so hopefully I can make another photo safari this weekend.

Little Girl PC, You Convinced Me

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

If you watch American TV, you’ve probably seen the little girl who stitches some photos together as part of one of the cute “I’m a PC” ads.  Since I love photo-stitching, I wanted to check it out.

It turns out to work much better than my old standby, autostitch.   My first attempt is the Ghandi statue on SF Bay, which autostitch couldn’t handle.  I’m going to do some re-attempts on pano that were successful under autostitch, see what they look like under the MS version (Live Photo Gallery).

schweet flickr news

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Oh yeah, time to get paid for all those flickr-shots.

blood on the wall

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

I’m on my way down the stairs this morning, when this greeted me. I dunno whose it is, or why it happened, but it’s not making me feel good about just renewing my lease for another year.