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There are numerous detailed articles on HDR (high-dynamic-range photography) out there on the internet, like the Wikipedia article and the HOWTO on instructables.com, so I won't bore you with too many details. What I'm going to do here is give a very brief rundown on what HDR is and how you can do it.

Last night I accompanied Mike to a Toastmasters meeting; this one for the Exodus 4:10 Toastmasters club. Mike drove all the way down from PG to give an impromptu speech on digital photography while I recorded the speech with my digital camera. I even ended up participating in the Table Topics section of the meeting, where I was given a line and had about three seconds to come up with a 2-minute speech. I thought I did rather horribly, but apparently I underestimate myself.

Hmph, yesterday at work my laptop failed to boot. GRUB stopped while loading stage 2.

I most recently had this this weekend, while trying to install Gentoo from a Live CD. Something about the version of GRUB on the AMD64 version of the CD prevented it from installing correctly. I ended up abandoning Gentoo and reinstalling Debian.

Anyway, I've become fairly well versed on this problem as of late, but more important things were taking my attention, so I set aside my freshly-bricked notebook until this morning.

I've had complaints about subscription notifications not being sent out. It looks like my scheduled jobs are not running properly; this would explain why any of you that have subscribed to content suddenly got a smack of emails into your inbox.

I'm still working out what's wrong, in the meantime I apologize for any current or future inconvenience while I work out this problem.

Update 13:36: apparently restarting cron was what was necessary to make the message traffic start flowing again.

My new Canon SX10 IS has a hot shoe; I've been experimenting with a borrowed Nikon SB-22s flash and have posted my experiments in my Experimental Photos albumn.

Last night I went and shot a few panorama photos around town. Today I stitched them together and uploaded them. You can see them in my new Panorama Albumn.

Mad Propz to Hugin. This thing makes stitching together multiple shots into a single panorama about as easy as falling over.

Recently, my camera (a Canon PowerShot S3 IS) began to exhibit some strange behaviour. Sometimes, while zooming, the camera would report "Lens error, restart camera" and then shut down. I began to think about a replacement.

After reading this story on Slashdot, I learned about Mollom, a web service that can be hooked into Drupal to do spam filtering. I didn't activate it immediately, but instead relaxed my draconian permissions on anonymous comment posting and waited to see if I really had a problem worth solving.

My girlfriend and I were sitting at the table having breakfast and we decided to put a cross-country ski trip on our to-do list for the day. And not just an around-the-backyard trip either; we decided to drive out to Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park to use the trails out there.