文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for April, 2007We awoke this morning to find that Anthony had built an elevated-highway construction site on the kitchen table. Yes, I'm easily impressed by my own kid, but geez, just look at the detail. Cones and barriers in the proper spots, ladders leading from level to level.... the only thing not true to life is that the workers aren't eating lunch. This is certainly a step up from the airport security gate from last week, and the street sweeper from six months ago. However, he's been doing research on the subject for a long time. 
View full post » When a digital camera produces a standard JPG image file, it does so after internally processing its sensor's raw data. This processing includes the mathematical application of various settings for exposure, white balance, sharpness, color saturation, and other algorithms that massage the image data in an attempt to achieve a particular look. Many cameras offer "scene" settings that can impact how this processing is done. For example, a "portrait" setting may reduce the amount of sharpening applied. Raw When shooting in a raw format, this processing is taken out of the camera, and left to your image-processing software. I [...] 
View full post » One of the tenets in designing large multiuser systems like Yahoo! Messenger is that one user should not be able to overly disrupt another, or force another to take some action. Yahoo! Messenger generally does a good job with this, but has long had one failing that really bothers me. For whatever reason, I seem to be a popular target for random people wanting to add me to their "friends list." I wake up in the morning to find a Yahoo! Messenger dialog on my screen that looks like this: 99% of the time, I have no idea who the [...] 
View full post » During our trip to Ise (pictures here, here, and here) a few months ago, we found ourselves at a beach around sunset. There was a little trickle of a stream running off from the mountains, down onto the beach. There wasn't much water at the time, but where the flow finally decided to dive into the sand, it left behind a deposit of the sand it was carrying. Over the course of a second or two, this sand would build up enough that it would become a little wall, diverting the water to one side or another. The result was [...] 
View full post » I finally solved a problem I was having with Japanese input into emacs, and thought I'd report it for the benefit of others that might be searching for a solution. A month or so ago, emacs stopped accepting kanji in Japanese input, and stopped displaying kanji in files. Hiragana and katakana continued to input/display fine, but kanji no longer worked at all. I spent a month testing all kinds of things (including some printf-debugging of the emacs source code!), but to make a long story short, it seems that all I needed to do was to add to my .emacs [...]
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