WordPress vs. Drupal

November 14, 2007 – 7:25 am

I’m a WordPress Partisan, so I agree with Mark Ghosh’s criticism of this Wordpress vs Drupal Report. Still, it reminds me that I should point out XXLmag, SLAM Online, and Ford among the very non-bloggy sites built on WordPress.

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Panorama Stitchers: Calico vs. DoubleTake

October 28, 2007 – 8:21 pm

I’ve been using DoubleTake to stitch panoramas for a while, but when I discovered p0ps Harlow’s photos and learned he was using Calico Panorama, I figured it was worth taking a look.
DoubleTake has done a great job for a number of my photos (Mt. Moriah, San Francisco Motorcycles, Mt. Mondadnock), and when the automatic [...]

By Casey | Posted in Photoblog, Technology | Comments (0)

Apple iPhone vs. Internet Tablets

June 27, 2007 – 8:35 pm

Sure, the iPhone is a sweet phone (even at $600), but how does it compare to the less definable internet tablet category?
I’ve actually used a Pepper Pad and held an OLPC in my hands (yes, they exist), but what I know about the Nokia n800 (the successor to the n770) is limited to [...]

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Q: Why Do Some Things Suck?

May 4, 2006 – 4:54 pm

A: Because we compare them to the wrong things.
I’m in training today for a piece of software used in libraries. It’s the second of three days of training and things aren’t going well. Some stuff doesn’t work, some things don’t work the first (second, third…ninth) time, and other things just don’t make sense. At [...]

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Nature Concludes Wikipedia Not Bad

December 14, 2005 – 3:38 pm

Fresh from Nature: a peer reveiw comparison of Wikipedia’s science coverage against Encyclopaedia Britannica:
One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. This radical and rapidly growing publication, which includes close to 4 million entries, is now a much-used resource. But it is [...]

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