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From the gadgets-R-us department:
Awright! 50th post!!!1! I’ve been writing this crap for months now! And to the best of my knowledge, no human reader has keeled over and died, nor experienced their stomach hurling violently, nor had their eyes roll back into their heads nor jump right out of their sockets in […]

From the teh-w33K3nd department:
PHOTOGRAPHY STUFF
I pretty much blew the whole weekend being obsessed with, and failing to properly finish, a 360° panoramic photo of my living room.
*** WARNING WARNING WARNING ***
Extreme photo-geekspeak ahead. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Control points / stitching / nodal point / tripod / exposure / […]

From the interactive-office department:
This is too cool for words. Normally you have to pay for stuff like this, but I found a free version, made by the same guy who made PanoTools (the also kick-ass panorama stitching software I use).
If you haven’t seen it before, go have a look at my last post, where […]

From the mom-dont-read-this department:
*** WARNING WARNING WARNING ***
This is *so* not safe for work. As in, you open this URL at work and ten big red siren lights all go off in your admin’s office.
http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/croatian.htm
But DAMN, we are so lame at swearing compared to these guys! They’re so good bad funny I have […]

From the shutter-up department:
My camera came back to me today. I was so excited I took some pics of my office and (very poorly) stitched them together. Note that this is a +90° panoramic, so things are highly warped. You’ll have to put your imagination to use to envision my office as […]

From the catz-R-us department:
I wrote some stuff about my cats today that I thought I’d share with you:
My cats: I have a brother (Paddington) and sister (Fluffernutter). They’re Persians of the “I ran into a wall and now my face looks like this” variety (although I think they’re incredibly cute). I adopted them […]

From the geeky-GPS-project department:
… but first, what else is new?
Winter is coming, and Team Norm has been putting off a few things:
* Get winter tires, now that I drive ~70km to work and back everyday, on the Queensway which is full of crazy drivers;
* Get wiper blades;
* Get new winter boots;
* Fill some holes […]

From the is-it-Friday-yet department:
It seems that the ‘office weather’ has been following along with the true atmospheric weather. So far this week it’s been rainy and snowy and windy outside, and the job has been similarly dismal. A new release coming soon, a bunch of new stuff I need to learn, and a […]

From the pedal-power department:
Blogging is still as infrequent as ever, but my excuse for the time being is my geeky GPS route study project, which is proceeding well on the website front (lots of diagrams and thinking about waypoints and decision flowcharts and stuff), and on the taking up all my free time front, but […]

From the geeky-GPS-project department:
I haven’t been ’round to blog lately, because all my spare time is being taken up by a new project. Here’s it’s tagline: “Have you ever wondered which way home is the fastest? So have I.”
You can read more about the project from my last blog posting, or you can […]