Well, I just got done adding Google AdSense banners to all static pages on nuxx.net.
While they aren’t especially obtrusive, they do look a bit odd on the main page. That’s probably okay, though, because most of my hits come into various pages which actually contain information.
Despite their not looking too bad, I can’t help but feel like a bit of a whore. I’ll have to keep an eye on how much it brings in… If it’s not much, I’ll just pull the ads.
For any of you who may have a Canon EOS body (Digital Rebel, XT, 20D, 5D, whatever) and wear glasses, I suggest that you check out the Canon EP-EX15 Eyepiece Extender. I picked one up today for $14.99 from Camera Mart in Pontiac, and after putting it on my camera, all I can say is “wow”.
While the camera is great to use without glasses, one has to press the glasses a bit closer to their eye in order to see the whole viewfinder. With the EP-EX15 installed, the image size is reduced by 30% and moved out from the body by 15mm. This has the effect of both allowing one to keep the viewfinder a little further from the eye (glasses-length away) and it keeps one’s nose from pressing against the screen of the camera.
I will have to see how it works out in the long run, but for now it seems like it was definitely worth adding on to the camera. Especially for only $15.
I still would like to get the Canon Angle Finder C because I’d rather gotten in the habit of taking waist-level photos using the flip-out screen on my Coolpix 5400, but at $179.95 it’ll have to wait a while.
Upon sitting down at my desk just now it appeared that I had email from an eBay user named ‘yuki668’ asking simply “Hello,do you accept PayPal?”. This seemed a bit fishy, so I decided to dig into it a little bit.
Come to find out, it’s the best made phishing scheme that I’d not yet seen. It appears to look like valid email from eBay, takes you to a look-alike login page, allows one to compose a reply, and even appears to send the message, then offering to redirect the user to My eBay and various other pages.
Here are some screenshots of this message and the hosted false pages:
· Original email from ‘yuki668’ asking a ‘question’.
· Fake eBay login page.
· Fake message composition page.
· Fake sent message confirmation.
I have to say, with my actively selling something on eBay, this almost fooled me. The way I knew it not to be right, is the original email message was sent, it didn’t say that it was a question about a particular item…
Anyway, here is the full header if the email, if you are curious: Clicky Clicky
Mmm… Pummelo!
That’s part of my snack from tonight. Within 45 seconds of taking this image I grabbed this piece and popped it into my mouth. Mmm… It’s almost like a mild grapefruit.
Also, it seems I’m not the only one who has taken an interesting picture of a pummelo: http://justinsomnia.org/images/pummelo.jpg
That one has a bit more squick to it, and my pummelo wasn’t nearly as fleshy-colored. But I still like my photo….
Although I did screw up and leave the ISO at 400, resulting in a loss of a good bit of detail. Ah well. I still think it came out okay…
This homemade ring light is a nifty idea, but it’s a pretty poor execution. I think I might have to make up something like this, though… I imagine I can use a UV filter as a base. Or, just make something which mounts around the front of the camera.
Then again, a true ring ling would probably be best.
Movable Type is pretty nifty once you get past the hurdles of getting the damn thing installed. It’s poorly documented and requires a lot of CPAN modules.
Ah well, at least it’s working. (No, not for me, although I may start to use it at some point.)
Also, I wish whoever was working on the AdSense module for Gallery 2.0 would finish it. I’d love to be able to allow people to add banners there. It might also finally prompt me to caption my photos properly and with keywords and such.
That’s a good part of tonight’s dinner. Here is all of it. Yes, roasted crimini mushrooms on a baguette with extra sharp cheddar, Downey’s Potato Chips (made in Waterford!), and Bell’s Wheat Love Ale.
Here are some of the mushrooms before they were roasted.
Uhh, my beer is also coming along nicely. And I don’t feel like writing much tonight.
I did take this cool split-second photo of a bubble racing through the airlock when playing around with my macro lens and the camera, though.
Hmm, should I add caffeine to my Java Stout?
I found this source of USP caffeine. I’d just need to add 10g to the beer in secondary… Then carefully test a bottle.
I’d also need to borrow a beam balance from somewhere…
Hmm…
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So, what did today hold? Well, upon waking up I found out that
While waiting for her to arrive I did my best to prep ingredients as needed. While I should have started the mash at that time, it still worked out all right… Within a few hours the partial mash (and protein rest) were complete, and it was time to heat the wort for boiling.
Despite working out in the snow and ~20 MPH winds, boiling went pretty well. I had a couple of boilovers, but nothing too bad. I’m not sure why these happened, although it seemed that it may have been tied to whenever the wind would die down. The boilovers did result in some wort getting on the burner but hopefully this won’t be too hard (or necessary) to clean off.
The wort came out with a density (OG) of 1.073 which should make for about a 8% beer or so if my figuring is correct. It is now sitting on a milk crate in my bathtub and producing a bubble of CO2 through the airlock every 30 seconds or so, which for yeast pitching plus ~2 hours isn’t bad. Although that may be because I had made a nicely active 32oz starter….
Anyway, that’s today’s brewing activity, and hopefully while moving it into secondary in a week or so I’ll also add 15 fluid ounces or so of very strongly brewed Zingerman’s In-The-House Blend made in my recently acquired Aerobie AeroPress.
With any luck, people will like it as much as they did the Vanilla Stout (photo gallery retired).
(Hmm, I guess I don’t know if there is any Java beans in the blend, so I can’t rightly call it a Java Stout… May have to change that… Hmm…)
Yes! My article is finally being published!
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