I played around this evening with pushing my camera in very low light, to get a feel for what my limits are without use of a tripod or flash. I made this photo of my dog:

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me: if you'd like, I'll explain man-in-the-middle attack to you sometime
her: will you explain it naked?
me: yeah we need more naked whiteboard time!
her: more? I didn't think we'd had any
me: that was an additive "more", not a multiplicative one
her: oh ok

As she just posted, braemblerose has left the jungle and is now back in Iquitos. She called me last night, for the first time since she left for the jungle, and this morning we exchanged our first email messages since then. We're rapidly catching up on a backlog of communication, and looking forward to magnitudes more when we're together again this weekend ( Read more... )

I decided to go with option 2 of my previous post and switch to business-class cable for my internet connnection and keep my server in my house. I switched DNS for my server over last night, and then early this morning discovered a loose cable from shifting things around. So last night my email and websites were down, but it's all back online now ( Read more... )

Two weekends ago I volunteered at the Texas Independent Game Conference. I had several good conversations with people about what they're working on and what technologies they're using. At the end of the first day, I realized that the time has come for me to end the project I've been working on for almost ten years and start something new. This ( Read more... )

I recently rediscovered a few photos my dad took of me last fall, and decided to make a new userpic out of one of them. I didn't much care for the color, so I decomposed it into RGB and then selected the blue channel ( Read more... )

I've been having intermittency problems with my internet connection, particularly in the mornings. It's because I'm too far from the central office for DSL, so there's nothing my ISP can do about it. It would just be an inconvenience, except I run my mail server from my house, and also host some web sites. Actually, even just for my own use the ( Read more... )