I love seeing how people do things on the edges of what is possible. In this case, how people make a living off being viral/popular on any social network. Most networks don’t have direct mechanisms to pay users, so instead people have to improvise all sorts of other ways to try and make a living …
Category Archives: photos
Moon shots
All the best photos from the Artemis I unmanned mission around the moon are in an album on Flickr here.
Last minute dog costume idea
Yes, this is Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
Fall color
There’s a house down my street with an entire orchard of trees planted in neat little rows and in late October each year, in the late afternoon the setting sun hits them and just glows bright yellow. I took this shot today as it rained and it’s pretty good but I didn’t catch the full …
SEO spammers wearing a printout of my face as their mask
Over the past year, I’ve cut way back on my plethora of wacky domains used on long-lost web projects. I’ve let loads of domains go and only updated the few I still use or need. As a result, most projects have been lost to the ether but there’s a good enough record of them in …
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The Eye-Fi mobi card is the real deal
Back in 2006, I was an avid user of Flickr and was asked to help test a new camera card that was going to offer uploading via WiFi. At the time, this meant you could conceivably skip the step of connecting your camera/card to your computer via USB. It was a bit buggy, but eventually …
Recent photos from rides
Ever since my favorite ride tracking site Strava added the ability to associate Instagram photos with rides, I’ve started taking a few shots on each ride to remember it. Here are some of my favorites over the past couple months
“Waiting for a second chance”
(photo by Marrkus Spiering)
Pacific City Sunset
Giro di Portland
Every summer there are some crit races in downtown Portland and they are a blast. I missed last week’s Twilight Criterium but got to see last evening’s Giro di Portland. The racing was hot and fast, with some surprise results. The Cat 3 race was won by a 13 year old that won a race …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 