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…another “blog”! I have blogs on twitter, tumblr, wordpress and probably a few other places I have forgotten about, so what’s one more? I took a couple hours today to play around with a few projects I have been watching and wanting to try out. The new blog is hosted on github at http://travisj.github.com. Github is [ READ MORE ]
I recently wrote about my troubles trying to buy a new camera lens on eBay and I wanted to tell about the great job ebay’s customer service did handling my problems. I wrote the “seller” – which was really just the production developer testing account – on a Saturday and told them about my mistake in [ READ MORE ]
My new lens arrived last night, but I haven’t had much time to try it out. The picture above was one of the first with my new toy and captures Crusher somewhere he probably shouldn’t be. I have lots to learn with the new lens. The shot is focused more on his body than [ READ MORE ]
I have been using Vim for a few months now and have found a few plugins that I can’t live without. NERD tree makes it super-simple to browse and open files from your filesystem. I’ve mapped the nerd tree toggle command to control-c and then use “j”, “k” and “enter” to find and open the [ READ MORE ]
A few weeks ago I decided to buy a new lens for my camera. I wanted a lens with a larger aperture so I could take pictures with a shorter depth of field. I did my research and settled on the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. It has gotten good reviews around the web, is [ READ MORE ]
I got quite a few great gifts for Christmas this year and it caught me really off guard. I couldn’t think of anything that I wanted so it surprised me so much that my family was able to find perfect gifts. I received many non tech related gifts, but tonight I wanted to write about two [ READ MORE ]