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I start a week of nighttime upgrades tonight. My schedule looks like this:
Sun: 2100-0200
Mon: 2359-0700
Tue: 1900-0700
Wed: 1900-0200
Thu: 1900-0200
Every night until Friday is overnight work.
It’s just the luck of the draw, and this one is gonna suck.

Corinne and I randomly decided to head to NY this weekend. We just finished getting a place to stay and tickets.
If you’re in the area and might want to see us for a drink or meal, give me a ring.

My NAS arrived today and after some poor documentation and frustration, it’s set up and running fine. I’m currently copying over about 400G to it — which is taking quite a while. I’m sure it’ll be running well past the time I head to bed.
That aside, I’m definitely seeing a lot of junk that I [...]

I shot this last night while on a harbor cruise in Boston harbor. It’s shot at ISO 6400, which explains the noise. I did a few things to try to remove some noise, but even at 6400, the 5D2 does a great job.
Click for larger.

I have a Windows XP host that’s been serving network storage via a RAID array serviced by a Promise FastTrak RAID card. This has been the way of things for a bunch of years now and it’s been pretty good for a while. There’s been the usual Windows issues, but it hasn’t been “bad”.
I try [...]