Various topics both uselessly general and mind-numbingly specific.

Olympic Mountain School of Photography

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Olympic Mountain School of Photography.

OMSP hosts workshops, mainly dealing with outdoor and nature photography, and some dealing with business organization.

EPIC

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Be a forensic photographer:

Evidence Photographers International Council

Only if I get to work for Grissom. That other guy in Miami drives a Hummer, and I hate Hummers.

:-)

The Zeltsman Approach to Traditional Classic Portraiture

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The Zeltsman Approach to Traditional Classic Portraiture

About a zillion other useful things linked from there, too.

Pentax (Petnax?) DSLR Web Site

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Pentax has a new web site promoting their DSLRs, with all the marketing stuff you'd expect.

It's called Digiichi.

And it has a really funny typo.

How Does Multi-Metering Work On Olympus C-5050Z Cameras?

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Just how does multi-metering work on Olympus C-5050 cameras?

Find out!

In unrelated news...

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... my Xangectomy has begun, and my new site has gone live. Feel free to drop in and say hi. :-)

Lloyd Erlick

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Lloyd Erlick rules.

See especially here and here.

Birdwatching and Link-Hunting

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Yesterday, I went to Juanita Bay Park to shoot some pictures. Like, for instance:

[img_assist|fid=53|thumb=1|alt=Juanita Bay Birds Feeding]

While I was there I met a man.

Daily Dose Of Exploits

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Today I learned about a new thing: Referrer spam.

The idea is that you get your referrer URL put into as many web sites' logs as possible, since those logs are sometimes visible to web spiders. The referers are usually presented as links, so, say, googlebot will pick them up and rank the referrer page as being linked from many sources.

Tricky, insidious, wasteful, and kinda clever. :-)

Solutions include modifying .htaccess and/or adding a rule to mod_security.

There's also the Awstats vulnerability, which someone with a North Korean IP is trying to sniff out on my server. Good thing I don't use Awstats.