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Peter Phun on March 26th, 2009

The last time I checked I had at least 10 hard drives of various capacities.
They are just chocked full of images, some I’ve shot, others from friends and students.
The packrat in me doesn’t allow me to throw anything away.
Well, not exactly. I just wonder if there’s any photographer out there who claims to have his [...]

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Peter Phun on September 29th, 2008

We all know there’s a lot of pretty lame content on youTube. It’s free after all and it’s the biggest portal for sharing video.

The video above is by Glenda Watson Hyatt–a blogger who uses Wordpress.
I’m excited that my proposal to teach this blogging platform has been accepted by UC Riverside’s Extension Center. More about [...]

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Peter Phun on August 13th, 2008

I’m probably one of those who write more than I should in an email. I probably think I have more to say.
Number 1 on my list of pet peeves as it relates to email is the number of forwarded jokes where the sender hasn’t taken the trouble to delete the number of recipients. Now every [...]

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I couldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes. The Los Angeles Times actually ran a photograph on its A-1 cover from a dubious source.
And I thought only Malaysian newspapers were capable of such questionable standards in judgement.. So it appears newspapers in this country are not incapable of horrible [...]

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