Sean’s Blog

Pictures From The Caribbean (Underwater)

I’m still slowly getting my pictures put together from my last trip to Puerto Rico. This week I have put up underwater pictures I took during that trip. All were taken off the beach behind Mimi’s Guesthouse in Guarnica, PR.

This is the first time I used my underwater housing for the Canon Powershot SD900. It worked great, but the viewscreen was almost impossible to see if the sun was reflecting off of it since the housing isn’t anti-glare like the actual camera view screen.

Here is the link to the gallery

Tags: caribbean, guanica, Photography, puerto rico, Sean Lavelle, underwater

My Must Have Firefox Extensions

One of the really great things about the Firefox web browser is just how extensible it is.  Using extensions has really allowed me to make my browsing a much better experience.  With all these free extensions available, I am still shocked by how many people don’t actually use extensions.  I thought I would list some of the plugins that I really like and use all the time as well as a couple that i haven’t used that frequently, but are just really great ideas.

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Tags: addons, firefox, Web

Moon pictures through a telescope (take 2)

Earlier this year, I took a bunch of pictures of the moon through my fiance’s telescope. All I did was to hold the my digital camera up to the eyepiece and snap away. A little while ago I did it again. I learned a couple things from that experiences.

First off, the light coming through the telescope on a clear night is BRIGHT! I had to dial back the exposure some and I didn’t didn’t need to set the ISO high at all. A tripod was impractical as well, as the lens had to almost be pressed against the telescope’s eyepiece.

All that said, I think the pictures came out pretty well. The ones that are up have not been processed at all and I think they look pretty good.

Here’s the link to the gallery

In case you missed it

 

The sunrise.  Not bad for a 2mp camera phone (Blackberry Curve).

Back and sick

I’ve made it back, but after 110+ degree temps, all night drinking binges, and Vegas buffet food, my immune system apparently shutdown on the plane and a picked up a nice bit of sickness, so I am working on my pictures and will hopefully get this stuff all together this weekend or earlier next week, but right now my plans consist of working and then going home and sleeping…

Another Blog?!?!?

Why start another blog? I have both Digital Pincushion and 4% Bloc, but as much as I like computer security, it is exhausting to write about constantly and to provide fresh content for. Same if not doubly so for 4% politics, so I thought I would start one that is not focus so heavily and it would let me write as I wanted on whatever I felt like, and if I have more thoughts on those issues, then I can update them at my leisure. So that is as far as I am going to go about that…