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I recently bought an LG VX6000 (VX-6000, VX 6000) cellphone from Verizon Wireless. This is the only camera phone they offer. I paid $150. While, in this day and age, $150 isn't a lot to pay for a phone, there are certainly other phones that are much cheaper. However, a lot of features come with [...]

Here is this morning's sunrise. I'm just curious as to how well the camera phone will capture it.
Update: Not very well, it seems.

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Saturday night, after a nice round of homemade pizzas at Tony's place, he offered to show me the ropes of studio photography. With Sean as our model (since he needed portraits anyway) we went to work in Tony's dining room converted studio.
I haven't done much photography work with people in general. And I've [...]

The following testimony comes from someone who actually used iTunes and DRM the way it was intended. He purchased music through the system, obeyed all the laws, and did everything the way he was supposed to.
The record companies can be proud that they've so thoroughly screwed things up now that there really isn't even any [...]

In an event that has stumped the scientific world, my desk is clean!

Here's an overly complicated idea. Everytime I sign up for a service, I give a randomly generated ID as my email address. I also register that randomly generated ID with my system and mark who is identified with it. The first time a message comes in to that address, the system takes note of the [...]

Since yesterday afternoon, I've received 127 pieces of SPAM. 115 of them were caught by SpamAssassin. 4 messages were labeled as SPAM, when they actually weren't. This is getting a bit annoying.
I've tried to lessen to blow of dealing with SPAM by dividing my SPAM into two sections. SpamAssassin marks it as SPAM if it [...]

I find myself at odds with my own criticism. I'm critical enough of my own work and abilities to mentally exaggerate my flaws. Yet, at the same time, I realize that my work and my ability to improve is substantially greater than many. This leaves me perpetually in that pivotal position of deciding to try [...]

They made me leave my camera outside. Im not sure why.