After publishing my writeup on Digital Image Color Spaces four months ago, I got into a discussion on color spaces and photo-hosting sites with one Chris MacAskill on a forum at Digital Photograph Review. I didn't realize it until today, but it turns out that this Chris MacAskill guy is the president of the popular SmugMug photo-hosting site.

Fast-forward a few months to earlier this week, and Chris posted his own comments on the Mac/OSX aspects of the issue. In just a few days, his post got over 100 comments, including some from the main players in this arena. [...]
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Yesterday we went to some very old, semi-famous mochi shops in north-west Kyoto, near the Imamiya Shrine. We took the opportunity to walk around the shrine a bit, and in doing so, found a plum (I think) tree just starting to blossom. This was especially surprising because this part of the city is known to be generally colder than the main areas, by a non-trivial amount, so I would have expected it to be later than our area.

In any case, my first blossom-related post is quite a bit earlier this year than last year (April 8th) or the year [...]

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I've been crushed with work as of late, which is why I haven't been posting much. I've recently started doing some consulting on a high-pressure project, and have continued working with new builds of Adobe Lightroom as it rolls toward its public release in a couple of weeks. Despite being a just 1.x release, it nevertheless offers some interesting ways to customize it, and I've been working on some tools that will help with that, and I want to have them ready for release along with Lightroom.

Still, I feel bad not posting something worthwhile, so I went into my [...]

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Politicians the world around often put on the most brazen displays of stupidity in what they say, and those in Japan are no exception.

Today's example from Japanese politics, long a juicy source for mind-numbingly stupid political speech, is from a talk given the other day by the Japanese Minister of Health, Hakuo Yanagisawa, about Japan's long-declining birthrate:

It's bad enough that a person would even consider referring to women as devices like this, but it might not be unexpected from a 71-year-old pig like this man apparently is, but it's so shocking that someone that's risen to the [...]

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