Weekly Twitter Digest: 2012-01-23
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Tweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-01-23. (read more »)
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Weekly Twitter Digest: 2012-01-23:: Tags: TwitterTweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-01-23. (read more ») Weekly Twitter Digest: 2012-01-16:: Tags: TwitterTweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-01-16. (read more ») Weekly Twitter Digest: 2012-01-09:: Tags: TwitterTweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-01-09. (read more ») Wordpress stats from 2001-2011:: Tags: HistoryThis online journal has been running since September of 1999. I refuse to call it a “blog” because it was around long before blogs were On December 8, 2001, I set up Greymatter and started using it to post online journal entries. On February 9, 2003, I migrated to Cafelog b2, which apparently made me quite happy. On January 18, 2006, I migrated from b2 to Wordpress, which was quite a bit of work. Here is a table showing posting and commenting activity:1
In the last couple of years, Twitter and Facebook (and now, Google+) have caused me to post here less and less frequently. I think I’m going to redesign echeng.com to be more of a hub for my photography work sometime during this coming year. This particular design here at echeng.com has been in place since February of 2003—I can’t believe it has lasted this long!
My Lytro photowalk with Robert Scoble:: Tags: Light Field, Lytro, PhotoI went on a fun photowalk with Robert Scoble last Tuesday, where we gave him a chance to play with a pre-production Lytro Light Field Camera. Scoble posted a thoughtful summary of the photowalk and included a video interview of me, which you can see here in this post. Weekly Twitter Digest: 2012-01-02:: Tags: TwitterTweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-01-02. (read more ») Weekly Twitter Digest: 2011-12-26:: Tags: TwitterTweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2011-12-26. (read more ») My most popular picture has been used a lot:: Tags: Fraud, PhotoMy most-published picture is a picture of a juvenile loggerhead turtle being released into the wild just off of Palm Beach, Florida. It is commonly referred to as “the screaming turtle“. According to Google, it is being used online in about 21,200 locations. One day, I will unleash an IP attorney to hunt down all unauthorized commercial use. I don’t care about the personal use, as long as people attribute me and leave my watermark on the picture (which many do not). Hint: to see where your pictures are used, go to Google Images and drag a JPG into the search field! Weekly Twitter Digest: 2011-12-19:: Tags: TwitterTweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2011-12-19. (read more ») Rampant credit card fraud in downtown Mountain View restaurants:: Tags: FraudLast month (November, 2011), 11 people at our office in downtown Mountain View were hit with credit card fraud. Most of us eat at the same group of restaurants on and around Castro Street in Mountain View. I was out of town, and was thus spared being a victim. However, I returned in late November and resumed using my credit card for lunch in downtown Mountain View. A couple weeks later, my American Express was shut down for fraudulent activity. It had been used at two Home Depot locations: one in Pennsylvania, and one in New York. One charge was for over $700, and the other for $450. That makes 12 credit card fraud victims at our company—a significant percentage. The logical conclusion is that a someone who works at a restaurant in downtown Mountain View is stealing credit cards. If you’re headed to Castro Street to eat, it may be prudent to either 1) go somewhere else, or 2) pay in cash. Weekly Twitter Digest: 2011-12-12:: Tags: TwitterTweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2011-12-12. (read more ») Weekly Twitter Digest: 2011-12-05:: Tags: Twitter
Did Siri stop working on your Verizon iPhone 4S? Here’s how I fixed mine.:: Tags: iphone, Mobile, SiriI have an iPhone 4S on Verizon. Last week, I asked Siri a question, and she responded, “I’m really sorry, but I can’t take any requests right now.” After 24 hours, it was clear that Siri was broken. I looked only, and there were dozens of support webpages offering various tips on how to get the service working again; apparently, it is pretty common for Siri, clearly labeled a beta product by Apple, not to work. This is unfortunate because the iPhone itself is clear NOT a beta product. For any Apple-branded service not to work taints the entire iPhone experience. Here’s how I finally managed to get Siri to work again:
I hate wasting time trying to get services to work properly. One of the reasons I have an iPhone is that I just want things to work, and all of the effort expended to figure out a way to get Siri to work was not fun. If I wanted to endlessly tweak my devices, I’d still be on Android! Anyway, I hope this post helps folks out there to get Siri working again on their Verizon iPhones. Underwater Indonesia: Alor and Komodo, November 2011:: Tags: marine life, Travel, Underwater, VideoUnderwater footage from a 26-day Wetpixel underwater photography expedition to Alor and Komodo, Indonesia. Footage taken by me, with Canon EOS 7D, Tokina 10-17mm fisheye zoom lens and Canon 100mm macro lens. Macro footage was lit with dual Light & Motion SOLA 1200 video lights. Additional footage captured with GoPro HERO cameras in modified Eye of Mine underwater 3D housings. Weekly Twitter Digest: 2011-11-28:: Tags: Twitter
Final Cut Pro X missing media problem:: Tags: Computers, Video, Video EditingI used Final Cut Pro X, Apple’s controversial new “professional” video editing program to cut the trip video during my latest Wetpixel expedition to Indonesia. These slideshows have become a tradition for guests and combine video, stills, and music into something people can take home to show their friends and family. Using Final Cut Pro X was, for the most part, fantastic. It is really more like an “iMovie Pro” and includes one-click video stabilization, color balancing, and look filters, which were all features I used extensively. Aside from dealing with small bugs, I was able to produce a 30-minute video fairly easily, without being impeded by any critical issues. However, I am back home, and am now in the process of trying to migrate my slideshow project and event files to my main Mac Pro from my MacBook Pro. This is proving to be impossible. Two excellent threads provide work-arounds for reconnecting missing media, but upon following the instructions outlined within those threads, this is what happened:
Put quite simply, there is no way to move a complicated project and its associated event media from one machine to another. The fragility of the media storage system in FCPx is shameful—it’s like the product was never tested in the real world. I will, in this case, essentially lose this project and never be able to edit it again. I suppose I’ll archive the events and projects in case FCPx improves its media handling capabilities. One significant side effect: if I upgrade my machine or need to reinstall, I’ll effectively lose all of my FCPx projects. Until there is serious improvement in media management, I can’t see myself using Final Cut Pro X again. Weekly Twitter Digest: 2011-11-21:: Tags: Twitter
Commensal Periclimenaeus storchi shrimp inside tunicate:: Tags: marine life, Photo![]() Commensal Periclimenaeus storchi shrimp inside tunicate, originally uploaded by echeng. This bright green Periclimenaeus storchi shrimp lives inside a large Didemnum molle tunicate. I can’t find it any of the critter ID books I own, so maybe someone out there can help me get an ID. We did a night dive in Alor, and many of the Didemnum molle tunicates contained critters living inside of them (I saw 2 different shrimps and an amphipod). All of the critters fled from lights, and getting this picture took over half an hour of careful planning and execution. Photo by Eric Cheng, taken with Canon 7D, 100mm macro lens, Nauticam underwater housing, Light & Motion Sola 600 focus light, 2 x Ikelite DS-125 strobes. Update: this shrimp has been identified as a Periclimenaeus storchi. It isn’t a true snapping shrimp. More info on this shrimp: Weekly Twitter Digest: 2011-11-07:: Tags: Twitter
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