Week of 04/20/2008 - 00:00 to 04/26/2008 - 23:59

In photography, when you're trying to add flash and want it 'off-camera' there's a few options. Off-camera flash is important, because let's be honest, on-camera flash looks harsh and just plain bad. So we have to move the flash away from the camera. Sometimes it's to the right, sometimes left, sometimes up. Other times you might add more than one flash to light the frame.

One way is to use a sync cable. This involves the possibility of adapters, and stretching a long cable between you and the flash. My camera doesn't have a sync socket, so I'd need an adapter.

Another way is to use an optical flash. This is a flash that is triggered any time it sees any other flash light up the scene. I have one of these, and it's great until there's other people in the same area with flash cameras. Then it gets flashed for them instead of me.

Buzz Aldrin, as he's verbally attacked by some moron claiming we never made it to the moon.

Buzz doesn't take that crap. He's my hero (sorry, Chuck!)

I placed an order with Puget Systems (www.pugetsystems.com) at 1:24 PM today.

The products, two heatsinks for a Socket-F CPU, did not specify the size in their website. I learned moments later that model fit the larger 4.1' mounting and I need the 3.5' mounting.

At 1:27 PM (3 minutes later) I sent a message through their system requesting a cancellation of the order, and explained what product I really need.

At 2:17 PM I received the following e-mail:

Hello Sir,

Well, I've talked about it for a while, but I just took the plunge.

I just migrated my OSS Ramblings blog to the new domain and moved all the old posts into the new Drupal engine. I really like Drupal, and I'm thrilled that I was able to save all my old posts from my Nucleus CMS site.

I'm sure there'll be a few issues with the old import, but at least the text is here. Any that had images uploaded along with the post probably will be lacking the images.

My prediction? Exxon might just have this guy assasinated:

Please note: This software will currently not download content from LDS.org due to changes at that site.

I've been lucky enough to have the LDS scripture set (KJV Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine And Covenants, Pearl of Great Price) on my handheld device for years. I've had it since I used an old Handspring, and upgraded my application to the PocketPC version when I got my Dell Axim, and continued to use it on my iPaq.