For 25 years, I’ve always had a laser printer at my disposal. I got my first one, the original Hewlett-Packard LaserJet, in 1984. I was handling the technical integration between Rolm and IBM at the time, and I was writing a lot of memos. I used an IBM PC and Microsoft Word for that. Rather… [Read More]
Archives for 2011
The big lighting giveaway
In my last post, I talked about some really bad lighting in a couple of movies from the 60s. Lighting has improved a lot since then, but there’s one place where, even today, almost nobody gets it right. Picture a scene. The hero and heroine are sitting by a window. He’s telling her some terrible… [Read More]
Bad Lighting
We photographers are consumed with lighting and light. It’s right up there with where to stand, where to point the camera, and when to release the shutter. In the last two days, I’ve watched two movies with unrealistic lighting – lighting so bad that it shatters the willing suspension of disbelief necessary to enjoy a… [Read More]
I’ve been cropped!
A few months ago, woman who is starting a magazine (a courageous woman, given the state of the print publishing industry) asked me if she could run some pictures from This Green Growing Land, my series on farm workers. I asked her about context. She said that the publication, Edible Monterey Bay, was a regional… [Read More]
VoIP — part 8
The new PBX is not fully shaken down, but I’m far enough along that I can offer some (provisionally) final thoughts. Having an IP internal phone network and analog trunks is probably not optimum. To get all the advantages of VoIP, you want IP trunks. However, there are advantages to an IP local voice network:… [Read More]
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