Lost in Translation

I’m watching Lost in Translation, and Sofia Coppola is MUCH better behind the camera than in front of it.
I’d forgotten what a beautifully filmed movie LiT was.

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Back to Dead Tech…

Add T-Mobile to the list of cellular carriers who can’t provide decent cell coverage in my neighborhood. The “can’t list” is long, the only provider in the “can list” is Verizon.
I’m on-call at work, and was hoping to switch to a Blackberry to consolidate telephone and email requests into one device, and have [...]

Mobile Phone carriers suck…

(Every one except Verizon, that is…)
How come Verizon is the only carrier who can manage to get coverage in my neighborhood? I’m no more than 20 minutes away from San Francisco in Oakland, and yet TMobile and Cingular/ATT can’t manage to get enough cell towers around here to provide service.
Because of a outage notification glitch [...]

Merry Freakin’ Xmas!

<img src=http://www.kataan.org/albums/city/tree.sized.jpg>
Here’s the test shot. I should go back and try it again, but spot-meter on the tree instead of using matrix metering. I could have lined it up a little better, too, but my reflection was in the shot…&nbsp;

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Chased away

I went to shoot some rainy day lunchtime photos this afternoon. Saw a wonderful shot, an ornate wrought iron door framing a christmas tree in a small law firm office.
Standing in the middle of an alleyway, I had time for one shot before the receptionist opened the door and said “May I help you?” in [...]

Life is good when you have JUICE

My new Nikon D70 batteries seem to have done the trick - my camera used to die after one day of shooting and sitting overnight. I haven’t charged my camera since before christmas eve, I have 80 shots on the card and the battery is still showing good.
I seem to have fixed my Palm [...]

Paradox

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