When my approx. 4-year-old Canon Powershot S1 IS started displaying an image sensor malfunction, I thought I was going to have to drop a cool $400 on a new camera. But Canon's website had a service notice stating that this was a known defect, and that they would repair this for free, including shipping.
What they sent me back was a Canon Powershot S5 IS. Sweet!
Read full entry »As you may be aware, Facebook only provides a way to temporarily deactivate your account, not delete it. Less well-known is an innocuous little form buried deep within their site where you can submit a deletion request. Below I include the link, as well as a sample letter.
Read full entry »Did you know that flickers travel in packs? Me neither! Found about 7 hanging out in the yard this morning.
Actually, this post is just an excuse to play around with my new personal photo gallery website:
I've written a web app that can read my KPhotoAlbum database and build a public gallery out of it. The images are served by Amazon's S3. I'll be releasing the source code under the GPL just as soon as I can get s3sync beaten into submission.
WordPress recently released 2.3.3 as an urgent security fix for 2.3.2. Rather than wiping all non-configured files from my development site, extracting the replacement files from the tarball, and re-uploading said files by FTP, I used the fast and precise approach: Only upload changed files.
Read full entry »While Alex was in town for the weekend, we used my camera's intervalometer to record tracks in my gravel driveway. I'm still playing with the images, but I've got a pretty sweet sample uploaded to BoF Labs.
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