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Kayaking on the Conemaugh
Jenny and I decided to have a bit of a kayaking adventure on Saturday. We decided that we wanted to go to do a part of the Conemaugh River, below the Conemaugh Dam. After…
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Book Looker
Book looker in the Strip District on a sunny Saturday. I often enjoy how intently someone looking at books can be. This particular woman was in her own little bubble, ignoring everyone around…
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mdworker FolderManager err=-36 messages in logs under OS X Snow Leopard
I get a little anal about checking logs on my systems. Over the years, I have found lots of nascent problems while doing simple log scans on all sorts of systems. Doing a…
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Pittsburgh Skyline Gigapan, First Take
Jenny and I did the Cystic Fibrosis walk a few weeks ago. It was a sunny Thursday evening, and the light was turning pretty on the buildings down on the North Shore. We…
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Welcome to the new Dryrose blog!
Hi all. So there are a few things changing in the Dryrose world. Some are still in development, but this is the first to really get some wings and come to some sort…
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Photographer for an evening
I got to play photographer for an evening tonight. One of the classes at Duquesne needed quick portraits taken of students in a class. The class was on Photoshop, and the students would…
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Firefighter safety information and the value of storytelling
The Firefighter Near Miss Reporting System has lots of good reports to read through, especially for a new guy like me. There’s lots of safety awareness to be gained simply by reading the experiences…
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SPF Records and YOU
The Domain Name System (commonly known by its acronym, DNS) has been around for a long while. Over the years, it has had enhancements and features added to it. It works based on…
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Poor technical score: Your bits are showing!
Yeah, I broke all kinds of things when I moved the blog around and re-organized things. One of those things was the RSS feed, which is used in news readers and in all…
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New photo toys arrived, and it looks like we’ll have to cover the flowers tonight
My new Induro carbon-fibre monopod arrived today. It matches the material and construction of my tripod, which is awesome in multiple ways. I only have one set of maintenance and setup tools to…