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Google App Engine Bulkloader Refreshing due to a 401 Loop
Developing apps on Google App Engine can be difficult when your production servers have a dataset that is hard to reproduce on your local development servers. Thankfully Google App Engine includes a very useful tool to do bulkloading. To download your data from production: appcfg.py download_data [...]
Light Bulb Temperatures
So I got bored one day and happen to have an infrared thermometer. I thought it would be interesting to know just how much heat comes off light bulbs. Its more than you would think. But keep in mind, this is an IR thermometer being pointed directly at a light source that could throw off extra IR emissions. The numbers might not be the [...]
Inside a Canon 50mm Prime Len f1.8
In case you are wondering what the inside of your Canon 50mm Prime Len looks like, I wouldn’t recommend doing what I did. Accidentally tipping a tripod over and landing the camera on its lens. Click on the image for the full-size.
ColorVision Spyder vs Pantone Huey Pro Monitor Calibration Review
If you are in the market for a monitor color calibrator, you probably know the two major prosumer brand devices – Pantone Huey and ColorVision Sypder. After going back and forth I settled on getting the Huey Pro. First Experience Now I’ve used ColorVision Spyder Express to calibrate a lab of computers before. It works ok but [...]
Welcome
For those that know me, they would never thought to see the day I would change my personal website over to WordPress. I won’t lie, I’m not a fan of WordPress. In fact, I spent a summer at a web design firm writing a new CMS solution to use instead of WordPress. Even now that I use it, I don’t like it. So why am I using [...]