Technology

Peter Phun on September 13th, 2009

The Phuns did their part to stimulate the economy.
My favorite Fedex courier pulled up this morning to deliver our our 24″ iMac.
And it is was about time too.
I was getting a little tired of being asked, “Where is the computer, Dad?”

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Peter Phun on April 9th, 2009

A couple posts back I mentioned how my hard drives were filling up fast.
So who’s responsible for chewing up that all that capacity?
One of my students is shooting with a Canon 5D Mark II. Luckily I don’t think he’s set his camera to shoot at Large jpeg settings.
Another who uses the Nikon D300 sends files [...]

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Peter Phun on February 26th, 2009

Wireless phone service always comes with a whole string of gotchas. As we approach the month of April when I’ll be finally rid of Sprint, they are all of a sudden playing nice once again.
I just got a friendly email from them touting the various upgrades to a smartphone and other plans.
That’s not the [...]

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Peter Phun on February 24th, 2009

This portrait of my aunt, her grandson, her two sons and their wives was made near a seaside on the island of Penang, Malaysia where I was born. Conditions weren’t exactly ideal. See the original picture. The one speed light I had with me was insufficient to light this group but I was on vacation [...]

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