If you are interested in the P2P music sharing debate, I encourage you to read Barry Ritholtz’s post on the subject. In a nutshell, Ritholtz suggests that by authorizing Napster To Go and Rhapsody subscription services, the maximum loss that the industry can claim per person is a mere $1000 per decade. He makes many other points that I’ve made on this blog for years — the musicians make their money from concerts not CDs, that much of the music downloaded would never have been purchased anyway, etc. It’s worth the read.
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Some Pictures from Ft. Lauderdale
The family recently took a small vacation to the Ft. Lauderdale area. I shot the following pictures in the Everglades at Sawgrass Recreational Park. These images were all shot at ISO 100 in Program mode on my Canon Digital Rebel. I used my usual Sigma 24-135 lens to do the work.
This first image was taken before boarding the airboat. It worked out to be 1/320 at f7.1. The meta-data says that the focal length was 108mm. I never really looked at that number too hard, but it’s interesting that it notes it.
This next image of an alligator catching some rays was also at 1/320s and f7.1, but a maximum zoom of 135mm.
This final image was taken at 1/30s at f3.5 with a focal length of 42mm. My hands must not have been shaking that much when the shutter fired.
As always, the originals for each of these images are available if you e-mail me.
About Blogging
A very funny commentary about blogging posted on Kuro5hin. If you blog, you know.
Google Maps
I think we now know why Google hired the lead Firefox developer. Take a look at Google Maps to get an appreciation for what Google is accomplishing in the web browser. This is not your average MapQuest or Yahoo! Maps. This is a real step ahead.
Google Maps supports dragging and is incredibly fast. The ability to interactively move a map around on a screen without waiting for a page refresh makes this tool a pleasure to use. I’d like to see the addition of a waypoint feature, where I could map a route and click to add waypoints. That’d be great for supporting my motorcycling habit — it’d be a big help for designing routes for group rides.