Great post today on CrunchGear about how resolution has nothing to do with image quality. Has an excellent in-depth walk-through of how light enters a lens and ultimately gets written out to memory and everything that can turn the image to garbage in-between. I vaguely knew this process; the post really goes into great depth [...]
I met someone who is in the satellite business and works with SES Astra. I asked a bunch of questions since it’s not often you get a chance to learn about the business of satellites. I wondered if bandwidth on satellites would be a shrinking business as more and more of the world gets wired [...]
I recently learned about the “Nodal Point” in the photography context. If you rotate a lens around this point while taking multi-image panoramic pictures, you will not get any parallax error. It turns out that there’s actually a tripod specifically designed for this use: the Nodal Ninja. I did a quick search on Wikipedia to [...]
Spent some time looking at DataXu today and MediaMath yesterday, both demand-side platforms for display advertising. Having spent so much time on search-related marketing and advertising, it’s good to look at the state-of-the-art in the display world. Stepping back though, my observation has been that the innovation is mostly around scale and performance as opposed [...]
Stainless is a fast, lightweight, pre-beta browser for the Mac that allows you to: render a web page with multiple cores (it’s fast) run each tab as a separate process (it’s more stable) open independent sessions in each tab so that session cookies are not shared The big differentiator relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox [...]
I’ve neglected my professional, topic-oriented blog for some time now. I hope to occasionally start posting to that blog again soon. In the mean time, I started this more heterogeneous multi-topic blog with less of a professional bent and more of a personal one. My goal with this blog is to, every day, post one [...]