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D300 Geo Test : Here's a quick test of the D300 DSLR with the Dawn Technology (www.dawntech.hk/di-GPS/purchase.htm) N2-diGPS, a very handy and compact GPS unit that connects to the 10-pin remote terminal of the D300 and encodes GPS data in the images. Images all captured as 14-bit NEF files and imported to Adobe Lightroom. A handful of the photos were adjusted, had special effects applied, etc. I know the pictures suck. The idea was to test out the geo encoding. Exported the images as JPGs and then uploaded to Smugmug using Send to Smugmug. Nice.

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Kindle : Hi there - welcome to my review of the new Kindle eBook from Amazon.com. The first two pictures are kind of interesting - one is a copy of the Amazon.com page showing that I did in fact have a Kindle on the way, the second was the UPS tracking data. How come I included those pictures? Because I happened to glace at eBay today while at work and saw that people were paying $800, $900, $1000, and even $1100 for Kindles. Wow. I thought to myself, "Self, you oughta go put your Kindle on eBay and garner a grand or so. You can always get a Kindle in January or February." I actually went ahead and posted a Buy It Now auction on eBay for $1000. A few hours later I checked on the eBay site and discovered that my eBay password no longer worked. Oh oh, I thought. I have other eBay auctions taking place (anybody want to buy a Sony SZ370 laptop? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320192177027&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D320192177027%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1)... hmmm, I wondered, what's up? I changed the password and then, about the same time, got an email from eBay saying somebody had hacked my account. Hmmm... I wonder if it was because I posted a WTS ad from an IP address that I don't typically use? No idea. I'm still waiting for an email from them to tell me whether it was a coincidence or whether they thought my Kindle auction was fraudulent? Who knows. I was gonna run right home and setup another auction. I mean, a grand is a grand, right? But of course I had to open the box and then I thought, "hey, this is pretty cool. i think i'll keep it..." You could still talk me into it, btw. Send me an email if you're willing to part with a grand and I'll package it up and send it your way via overnight service. danbrew@hotmail.com. :) Well… like I said, it didn’t work out that way. I got home and decided to take a peek at it. Figured I might as well take some photos. Then I wanted to experiment – I’d already bought about 20 books. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to download them to the device. The UI could be a tad bit more intuitive. I’m a few chapters into the Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell and have decided I’ll probably keep it. I’ve been holding off on buying traditional books as I had loaded the Kindle account up over the last few weeks (ordered on 11/23) and I’m out of fresh books. Most of this photo library is just photos at this point – I’ll flesh out my comments as I spend more time with the device. It’s definitely a version 1.0 device. And white? Come on, what’s up with that? We’re gonna have a black president and we can’t have a black Kindle? Pleeeeeaaaaassssseeee. The white one is gonna be hard to keep clean. Click on any picture to make picture. Click on that picture to make even bigger. :) ------------------ UPDATED: 12/30/07 I have my Kindle for a few weeks now and have read six or seven books on it so far - I'd typically have burned through a few more books in this amount of time, but it has been crazy busy at work. I've updated comments on some of the pics below - and added top line comments below. First and foremost, it's absolutely a 1.0 device. I'm not going to talk much about the software as I think that can be fixed with a firmware release (have no idea if Amazon is gonna do that - but they should)... The whispernet delivery system is pretty cool - although there needs to be a solution for people who are outside of coverage areas. I can easily see that folks might live/work outside the US - I get that the content is only licensed for use in the US. The online store works pretty well - it could be a bit easier. I really like the idea of a personalized list of recommendations for me based upon my purchases... of course that list is populated based upon my Amazon/Kindle purchases - it would be nice if I could upload a list of other books so that the recommendation list would be more complete. Ok, on to specifics - comments below. :)

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Hi there - welcome to my review of the new Kindle eBook from Amazon.co ...

Updated: Dec 10, 2007 4:26pm PST

Oakland Cemetery : Confederate Memorial Grounds This section is the final resting place for approximately 6,900 Confederate soldiers including 3,000 unknowns. Through much of the Civil War, Atlanta hospitals overflowed with men wounded in battles to the north. The largest cluster of wartime hospitals was within half a mile of the cemetery. As fighting moved closer to Atlanta and deaths mounted. Land adjacent to the Cemetery was secured as a Confederate burial ground. After the war, several thousand soldiers who had fallen in the Atlanta campaign were moved from battlefield graves to Oakland. Approaching this area from the main gate, the Confederate Obelisk provides an orienting landmark. The 65-foot monument, made of Stone Mountain granite, was dedicated in 1874 as a project of the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association. For years it was the tallest structure in the city. Marked military graves occupy a large central rectangle south of the Obelisk. Included are the headstones of 16 Union soldiers who died in local hospitals. Another area of marked Confederate graves lies along Oakland’s southern wall. Northeast of the Obelisk, the unknowns are guarded by the “Lion of Atlanta.” Modeled after the Swiss “Lion of Lucerne.” The Lion was carved in 1894 from the largest block of marble quarried in Georgia up to that time. For the nameless soldiers, the dying lion rests on the flag they followed and “guards their dust,” in the words of a commemorative poem. To the northwest of the obelisk, three Confederate generals are buried: John Brown Gordon; Alfred Iverson, Jr.; Clement Anselm Evans. Generals Lucius Gartrell and William Stephen Walker are buried on family plots. An annual memorial service takes place in this section on Confederate Memorial Day, April 26th.

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Updated: Aug 10, 2008 9:08am PST

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Kindle 2 : Hi, welcome to my very brief Kindle 2 page. You may recall that I posted photos, comments, and observations of my first Kindle here: http://danbrew.smugmug.com/gallery/3972874_f8VkL. I ordered the Kindle 2 on the day that it was announced and received it via overnight services (UPS) today. It was actually supposed to show up tomorrow, but they shipped it a day early and I received it today. Just happened to be home... phwew! Of course like everything, I didn't read the "read me first doc" until later, but it appears that you might be able to do something automagically to suck over all your content. Honest, I'm not really sure. I have had my Kindle 1 for about 15 months and it has traveled all over the world with me. At first glance, they've fixed the things that bugged me - no buttons on the bottom, the buttons on the side appear to not be able to be accidentally pushed when you read in bed (although I'm lounging at the moment, I'm not yet ready to snooze and read for an hour or so - so we'll see how well that part works...!). I'm not going to bother with much of a critical review since I know so many other folks are squawking about the pros/cons on the net, so I'll abstain. I do have a few comments, though... first and foremost, dude? white? we can't get a black kindle? What's up with that? Second? My favorite shortcut no longer seems to work - on the Kindle 1 if you roll the pointer all the way to the top of the page and press the button, it bookmarks the page. I found that by accident on the K1 - it no longer seems to work on the K2. Damn. I've got about 100 books on it that I've purchased over the last 15 months. I intentionally downloaded all 100 books to the K2 just to see how much space it would take. I still have about 1.3 gigs remaining. Nice. I can't possibly imagine ever filling it. I believe the user space is about 1.4 gigs - not bad. I do wish there were a better grouping/index system on the content manager, though. The on/off switch is now a single switch on top of the unit. You need to turn the wireless off via a software setting - it's easy to accidentally leave it on. I liked the second switch to turn off the radio - bet that I forget and drain the battery by leaving the radio on. My first "what the hell were they thinking?" comment? The stupid (*&)(*^@# at Amazon shipped a USB cable with a funky connector on the end. It may very well be a "standard" (micro-B connector), but, man, almost everything else I have is a mini-USB connector. Do we really need to carry yet another custom cable around? Please. I do like the way the USB cable plugs into a 110v wall socket connector, but I don't like the micro-B connector. There seems to be plenty of room on the device to have used a mini-USB. Anyway, those are my first impressions. Pictures below. More comments later.

Kindle 2

Hi, welcome to my very brief Kindle 2 page. You may recall that I pos ...

Updated: Feb 24, 2009 7:09pm PST