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Sunday
May022010

Repairing a Lumix GH1 strap lug

One evening I opened my bag to pull out my Lumix GH1 and much to my horror, I found the camera strap lying at the bottom of the case! Inspecting the body more closely, I discovered that the camera strap lug had somehow fallen off the camera body. I picked up the camera, gave it a quick shake and lo and behold, there was a rattle inside. Alarmed, I did some emergency surgery.

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Sunday
Jan102010

Fixing audio problems in "Dragon Age: Origins" (PS3)

Over the weekend I picked up a copy of BioWare's “Dragon Age: Origins” and I've found it to be a great way to watch time fly by (good thing on the entertainment front, bad thing on the trying-to-get-stuff-done one). I'm enjoying the character design, cinematic narrative (with surprisingly good humor), engaging combat, and for the most part, a great soundtrack. I say for the most part because one of the things the frustrates me has been choppy audio playback.

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Monday
Dec212009

Made Aperture work again in Snow Leopard

So I went to launch Aperture 2.1.4 in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.2) today and much to my surprise, it crashed. It bounced once and tossed up the error dialogue. I did the usual things — pulled out the plug-ins from all library folders, removed the preferences, reinstalled Aperture, reinstalled the update, reinstalled 10.6.2 — and nothing worked. I resorted to the Internet and Google…

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