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Eric Mesa | August 31, 2009
A while back I unveiled a web utility for telling when it was time to move a photo from one flickr views group to another. It got tons of hits. Then I switched my server and it all stopped working. Beej had gone to a new framework for traversing the XML and had some problems [...]
Eric Mesa | August 23, 2009
I first mentioned my participation in the 365 project back in May. Ever since then I’ve gone back and forth between filler photos and some of my best creative work. I’ve been trying as much as possible to explore different techniques and try to be as creative as possible. Here are my best shots since [...]
Eric Mesa | August 21, 2009
While looking up driving directions on Google Maps from Barcelona, Spain to Madrid, Spain, I clicked the option for “walking” directions out of curiosity’s sake. This is the quickest route they gave me for walking. I don’t think that’s the most efficient way to go. First of all, I can’t walk on water. Second, why [...]
Eric Mesa | August 19, 2009
I don’t even remember what I was going to search for in Google, but here’s what came up when I typed “why”.
This is becoming a huge “sport” on the net – to see what Google gives you when you type something into the search. It’s the first time I got something fun.
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Eric Mesa | August 18, 2009
A few weeks ago I did an update to Fedora 11 using preupgrade. Nothing really broke other than iPods. My shuffle doesn’t work as well, but I’m working on fixing that. I also think that the updates are less annoying-looking and are more informative.
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Eric Mesa | August 17, 2009
I finally finished Final Fantasy IX. Took me a little over 30 hours. I didn’t do all the side quests, but that’s more of Dan’s thing. The characters I played with the most ended up at about level 52 – if that tells you anything. Except for a little bit when I was trying to [...]
Eric Mesa | August 13, 2009
Just like Dina, Daniel has a great smile. This is pretty easy to capture because he’s almost always laughing. He has a great attitude towards life and you can’t help but smile when you’re around Daniel.
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Eric Mesa | August 12, 2009
While finishing up my photographic bio, I was copying and adapting my introduction from my flickr Top 40 book. So I decided to see how the top ten photos in my flickr Top 40 have changed in the past three years.
2006
Original Rank: 1
Current Rank: 5
Original Views: 455
Current Views: 1881
Camera: Kodak DX3600
Original Rank: 2
Current Rank: [...]
Eric Mesa | August 8, 2009
I think it’s pretty interesting that my eyes can see without seeing. For example, when I’m walking through the hallways at work, my eyes often end up in collision-avoidance mode. That is, I don’t see through my eyes because I’m busy seeing something else in my mind’s eye. So my eyes become visible-spectrum sonar and [...]
Eric Mesa | August 7, 2009
My blog has always contained some degree of introspection. It has varied based on my interests at the time. While it’s not impossible to include some self-examination in a Linux review, it’s certainly not par for the course. But, recently, reading Min and Kailyn’s blogs recently has inspired me to try and include some more [...]
Eric Mesa | August 5, 2009
After playing Final Fantasy 9 for a few days, here are my first impressions.
the graphics are a little distracting – it’s kinda like an uncanny valley thing. It’s not quite as nice as the new stuff, but better than the SNES graphics. But there are a lot of closeups because it was state of the [...]
Eric Mesa | August 4, 2009
My most used tag on flickr – portrait.
And my most interesting photos continue to shuffle around! Here’s the latest top 10. You’ll see that this photo, which had become my 2nd most interesting photo at one time, is now off the top 10.
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Eric Mesa | August 3, 2009
I have a lot of love for Squaresoft (well, now they’re SquareEnix), despite the fact that I’ve played relatively few of their games. I think Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 (originally released as Final Fantasy 3 in the US) are the pinnacle of their jRPG work. I’ve also played Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy [...]
Eric Mesa | August 2, 2009
All good things come to an end. In this specific case I’ve decided to end my tenure reviewing Linux distros. Being a home owner consumes a lot more of my time than being a renter. Doing a quality distro review takes a lot of time – usually at least 2 – 4 hours. And so [...]
Eric Mesa | August 1, 2009
note: I started writing this months ago when I did the installation and now I am finishing up by looking at the installed distro.
PCLinuxOS started as an extra set of packages for Mandriva. Interesting because Mandriva originally started as a KDE version of Red Hat. Eventually, it became its own distro. It became very, [...]
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