Yosemite ‘Fire Waterfall’

Posted on November 8, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

A friend of mine sent me an email with a link to these pictures and story of “Fire Water” at Yosemite. First I thought the pictures cool… man, how did they do that… then it got better when I read the story to learn that this is a naturally occurring phenomenon and how rarely happens […]... Read More

Removing Duplicates in a DropDownList

Posted on October 20, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

In a recent project enhancing some functionality to an existing .Net v2.x web application I had the need to remove duplicate entries in a DropDownList. As with most challenges I haven’ had the pleasure of resolving before, I took it to Google. Of course I got a plethora of suggestions to eliminate the duplicates in […]... Read More

Dance Recital Pictures

Posted on October 14, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Back in May, my daughter was in another dance recital. I brought along my Nikon D50 with 18-200mm zoom lens and mono-pod. I set the shutter speed at 1/100 sec and ISO at 1600. I turned off focus assist light and the review display screen so it would not distract and annoy others watching the […]... Read More

Apathetic USA

Posted on July 22, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

My dad sent me an email today with a link to a site with a political video. I think I have seen this video before, but can not say for sure. But it is good. I hope and pray our country is not as bad off as the video portrays it to be. So, I […]... Read More

My First YouTube video

Posted on July 21, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Toda…. my very first YouTube video. It isn’t much, quite short, quality all the way to 720p which is real clear and sharp. Of course it didn’t hurt any that the pictures I took were crisp and in focus. I made this video using ProShow Producer from PhotoDex. ProShow Gold and Producer are quite nice […]... Read More

Manual mode on your digital camera

Posted on July 20, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 2 Comments

Most people take pictures using Auto mode, especially on point and shoot cameras. While there is certainly nothing wrong with that, it is a good idea to understand the basics of using Manual mode. Essentially, all Auto mode does is set the Manual mode settings automatically. But, sometimes Auto mode gets it wrong, and if […]... Read More

Good bye WebHost4Life

Posted on July 20, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Good by WebHost4Life and hello Arvixe. WebHost4Life has been my hosting company for nearly 7 years… since August 2003. Back in the day, things were great, web sites were responsive and support was knowledgeable and relatively quick. Time went by and servers and service got upgraded, more storage, more SQL DB’s, better email web client […]... Read More

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