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I tend to buy stuff from the iTunes Store. I’ll bet that a lot of you do as well. I like iTunes’ backup ability, but I don’t need a backup of all of my music nor do I want to burn a stack of DVDs when I just purchased a couple of albums.

Hence this script.
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Thanks to diligent photographer Will Taylor for discovering a key piece to successfully geotagging images in Aperture post-import: it only ’sticks’ for exported images if your masters are stored outside of the Aperture Library ie they are Referenced Masters.

http://brettgrossphotography.com/2008/05/04/how-to-geocode-with-aperture-houdahgeo

Thanks Will!

I think it’s great that I can be sitting in a camp chair in my yard and watching our new puppy while blogging at the same time. Before you accuse me of ignoring her let me tell you that she’s currently napping in the shade.

And the WordPress app for the iPhone supports using the built-in camera!

We certainly didn’t need another dog. Hera is a great dog and aside from some minor craziness she has been a joy to have with us. Seeing how much she loves being with other dogs we thought that a packmate would be good for her.

With that in mind we went out to find a puppy. We found some great looking puppies using PetFinder and spoke with someone at a local no-kill shelter and they confirmed that they would have some puppies at our local Petco.

All fine so far…

Then we got to Petco and walked past all of the shelter’s adult dogs. Hera was an adult when we adopted her and we’d actually be out looking for a puppy. I think we were both determined to actually come home with a puppy this time.

We hadn’t counted on meeting Domino.

So, we’d decided to take Domino home, but what about our plans for a puppy? Well, how could we not bring this one home?

So, yes we now have 3 black and white dogs.

Yesterday we went out to see the puppies at a local no-kill animal shelter. I should have known better.

We ended up bringing 2 more dogs home. That makes 3 and I’m really sure that’s all. I really hope so.

Pics later - we’re busy at the moment.

I’m not done with the series yet, but I am enjoying Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series. I know they’re kids’ books but so are the Harry Potter books and I am pretty sure that the Belgariad by David Eddings is as well. The Ranger's Apprentice series is definitely aimed at the younger crowd but they books are pretty good and they make great summer reading.

Hey, I like light reading.

Of course I sometimes have to break up my summer reading with something less funny and light so last week I listened my way through The Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It is the sequel to The Relic and I don’t think that it is quite as good. It was an enjoyable listen and cleansed my palate so that I can get back to an Artemis Fowl book.

I really wish that Audible had the Repairman Jack series.

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I’m playing with HDR rendering and exposure blending. Here is an example of what I did with 2 exposures using exposure blending in Photoshop CS3.

Now I need to do a comparison between this exposure blend and HDR renders…

What do you think?

I wonder how many other WordPress blogs have similarly worthless posts from authors who just installed the native iPhone client?

When flying from Pittsburgh to Austin recently I discovered that I forgot to pack a book. An emergency trip to a book seller in the Pittsburgh International Airport I found Clive Cussler’s The Navigator.

Cussler still can’t write dialog to save his life (he is much better than his 70’s and 80’s Dirk Pitt novels) the book was the usual fun romp across the world. I enjoy Cussler’s novels because they’re typically pretty light and always action-packed. They are pretty much all good summer reading.

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Well, out trip into Arizona’s famous sandstone formation ‘The Wave’ is now safely in the past. We have made it out to Arizona, back into the Coyote Buttes wilderness and eventually back to Pennsylvania safe and sound.

Here are my thoughts on hiking The Wave.
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