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Doing

Between home and work, I have various Windows, Linux and Macintosh computers. I centralize my media on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, accessible by all. As you can imagine, I use different media players on all.
My biggest hurdle has been consistency in user experience. I’ve had to run iTunes on the Mac, Winamp, FooBar2000 [...]

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A friend pointed me to this BBC article about tonight’s full moon. It seems that tonight’s full moon event will occur when the Moon is the closest it’s been to the earth (during a full moon) in 15 years.
Well, methinks. A perfect time to get out the photography and telescopy equipment and capture this event.
But [...]

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Usually Google Apps for Business is the last of Googles free online application suites to receive new features, but ever since Google enabled Google Labs within Apps for Business, new features are rolled at the same time.
Today Gmail received a simple Task List manager:

Like many of Google’s enhancements, it’s a very simple implementation — but [...]

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Originally uploaded by bgrier

Today I picked up one tool that my photography kitbag has been missing for a while, a flash slave trigger.
And this one of the first shots taken using it. Beer, of course
Slave was a Vivitar 283 sitting about 60 degrees to the right of the glass, triggered by an on-camera [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I found the following in an email from my webhost:
Your web hosting account for bradgrier.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for
up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
After a quick call to the [...]

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