I got a copy of Aperture this week, just in time to get to play with the new 1.5 update. I'm really impressed with the application. It blows iPhoto out of the water.I was trying out some of the new features, and thought I'd see if I could tweak one of my favourite photos... »
The UCalgary Flickr Group has really taken to the new Flickr Geotagging feature in a big way. The almost-30 group members have tagged 154 photos of campus already, providing a pretty impressive coverage of the major areas of campus.UCalgary Flickr Group Geotags I've been spending the morning doing mind-numbing copy-and-pastery, so I'm going to... »
I went for a quick walk around campus at lunch, and dragged along the camera to get some shots of the leaves turning colour. Sometimes this campus can be really beautiful. We may not have a rose garden or a nude beach (or any other kind of beach) but it's pretty nice sometimes. Apparently, I'm... »
iUofC.com is a community forum site created by students at UCalgary, offering a central off-campus student-managed place for students to share information about classes. It's currently a rather empty shell, with forums created for every class. As students find out about it, it's starting to slowly grow.iUfoC.com Screenshot The thing that blows me... »
I had the pleasure of attending a presentation/workshop by Craig E. Nelson this morning. The Teaching & Learning Centre hosted the event, which brought faculty members from the various sides of campus together to discuss critical thinking and implications on pedagogy. It was a really interesting session, with Craig telling stories and modelling effective use... »
The U of C's connection to the commercial internet has been packet shaped for years. Back in the Napster days, they added something that makes any file ending in ".mp3" be transferred at about 2 bytes per second. The shaping filters have slowly been added to, winding up with something that basically says "is... »
I've been trying to find an answer to this, but haven't found anything definitive either way. Occasionally, I want to bring my Canon XT DSLR along when riding my bike. I might want to photograph something on campus at work, or along the path. So, the question is - is it safe to pack the... »
Larry Sanger announced his organization's intention to create a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia, with a different community/moderation model. Instead of just letting everyone create and edit pages, there will be a new class of citizens called "experts" who get final say. The rest of us are demoted to "unwashed masses". From Larry Sanger's essay "Toward... »
My brother has a house in Phuket, Thailand, so I've been trying to follow news on this week's coup to see what's going on. I had no idea there was an ongoing corruption scandal of that magnitude. It seems unclear whether this coup was a good or bad thing. Some people say it's bad... »
I passed the 1000 km mark half way into my ride home today. Since I started riding in July, I've now ridden over 1000 km just commuting to and from work, broken into 80 equal 12.54 km trips. That's roughly equivalent to riding from Calgary to Vancouver, even when accounting for vertical climb (92m... »
