August 2008 Archives

After such a rocky start to the trip, boy was I happy to check into the Mövenpick in Amsterdam. We arrived a bit before check in time, but after waiting for a while, we finally took up residence in our room. We even got the view I wanted. Read on...

I've travelled a lot in my life and had some interesting experiences along the way. In a half million miles of flying, however, August 20th is a day that will stand out, and not in a good light. Read on...

My Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro has had several scary incidents of late. There's been no concrete verdict on the issue, but it seems like a bad hard drive. After the latest little scare, I took a hint and picked up a 320GB replacement drive. Read on...

The release of Lightroom 2.0 has been great to work with. But, as happens with major releases, sometimes issues make it out into world. For example, the other day while processing thousands of photographs from a recent job, Lightroom stalled out on me with the dreaded spinning beach ball. Read on...

The issue with the Canon 1D Mark III autofocus is well understood as a bright light, fast motion problem. I’ve run into the problem in one other area: lit stage environments. Read on...

Printer ink is expensive stuff. In fact, over the lifetime of any photo printer, you will spend more on ink than you did on the printer in the first place. The problem is that the printer makers don’t make it easy to sort out how much money you’re in for when you buy a particular printer. Read on...

Last week, I had the chance to spend some time with Macworld editor-at-large Rick LePage in the of Printerville testing lab. While there I got to spend some quality time with the large format printers and generally geek out with Rick about the current state of the printer industry. Read on...

In 2006, I bought one of the very first HP B9180s to arrive in the United States. It was a dream printer to use. Best of all, it delivered for a long time on its promise to avoid clogged printheads. But, that was then. Now after two years of use, a couple of major problems have cropped up with my copy. Read on...

While Pınar is away in Europe this summer, I’ve been keeping watch over her orchids. They’ve dealt with a drive up to Portland and my unpracticed efforts to care for them and reciprocated with a flower. A flower! Read on...