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Jan 9, 2012, 8:36 pm
Here are three time lapses of roads in Portland. Times are from two seconds to 8 seconds.
Burnside Bridge
Highway 26 and 217 Interchange
Same as above, but from a different angle
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Jan 8, 2012, 7:16 pm
Playing with the new lens today. Was quite fun, and will easily become my Prime lens from now on.
These wetlands are located in Beaverton Oregon, right off of Murray Blvd. The Tualatin Hills Nature Park is just north of this set of wetlands. While not part of the park, they are linked to it via wal... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 2011, 3:47 pm
The Internet is so big now, and the average person has more bandwidth at home then existed in the entire world in 1980, that the biggest slow down in web surfing has become the initial DNS or Domain Name Service look up. DNS is the service that translates the human readable Domain Name of 1nova.com Comment - Like
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Dec 17, 2011, 3:33 pm
Kerby is a Class E6 ghost town.
This former gold mining town is on US 199, five miles south of Selma, and just north of Cave Junction. Kerby was established around 1850 after a mule carrying a pool table collapsed and died here. Not being able to get paid for the failed delivery of the pool table t... Comment - Like
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Dec 17, 2011, 12:18 pm
Taken in Crescent City, California in September 2011.
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Dec 17, 2011, 12:11 pm
Prints of this photo are available on Zazzle.com
Copies of this print are available at Zazzle.com!
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Dec 6, 2011, 9:35 am
Vista AntiVirus 2012, also known as Windows XP Home Security 2012 is one of the viruses/malware programs running around that masquerades as an anti-virus program.
Unfortunately it’s not. It uses various browser holes to install itself and then pretty much disables the computer until the user puts ... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2011, 11:41 pm
Lone Fir Cemetery is one of Portland’s most historic (and haunted apparently,) locations.
As such is full of gorgeous head stones, and one beautiful mausoleum.
And of course, a statue dedicated to Veterans of the Civil War, the Revolution, the Spanish-American War, and the Rogue Indian Wars.
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Nov 20, 2011, 11:30 pm
The line outside of the newly expanded Voodoo Doughnut shop in downtown Portland. It’s not always busy like this. Frequently the line is much longer.
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Nov 20, 2011, 11:00 pm
One of the great things about Portland is the number of nice gardens people have.
Makes me jealous.
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Oct 21, 2011, 2:56 pm
From the command line:
sudo mdutil -E /
sudo mdutil -i on /
The amount of time this will take depends on how many files are on your hard drive. Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2011, 2:24 pm
Sometimes OS X’s time and date gets out of sync with the real world, and using the option “Set date and time automatically:” doesn’t always work.
You can use this command in terminal to update it manually:
ntpdate -u
The server address can be any of the Apple Servers such as time.apple.co... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2011, 5:28 pm
If you need a driver for HP Printers on Apple OS X Lion, you can download it from here:
Apple HP Printer Pacakge
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Oct 4, 2011, 9:16 pm
I had a little bit of a weird issue – Thunderbird would not delete emails from the Gmail server even though it was being told to do so. To make things even more confusing, one account worked fine, while three other’s didn’t.
I found out that the accounts need to be setup for POP access not Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2011, 9:28 pm
Sometimes, commuting to work is actually a joy.
Yesterday’s sunrise was more spectacular then usual due to the number of forest fires polluting the air.
But what makes it really good, is being able to take an early morning stroll through the Rose Gardens.
Even if it was a little wet.
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Sep 12, 2011, 7:00 pm
These directions look a little weird, but trust me, they do work.
1.) Power camera on
2.) Open the CF door (trust me!)
3.) Press “play”+”OK” at same time. If that doesn’t work, try “menu” + “OK”
4.) Press the following buttons in order: “Up” “Down” “Left” “Right... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 1:19 pm
Every year there is a huge flower display of some sort in Pioneer Square. Some artists take potted plants and arrange them into patterns across the middle of the Square. They stay there for a few days, and then the plants are sold off cheap and the money donated to charity. This year the design was ... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 1:09 pm
This is a closeup of the face of the “Umbrella Man” who stands in Pioneer Square everyday.
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Sep 11, 2011, 12:10 pm
Taken from the top of Larch Mountain. The air is a bit smokey due to forest fires on the other side of the Mountain. I was hoping to be able see the fires, but that wasn’t possible.
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Sep 5, 2011, 6:54 pm
Fort Stevens, the name itself invokes history. Although little important happened here, other then a few random bombs during WWII, the park still attracts many visitors.
On Memorial Day weekend, re-enactors wander around. Dressed in either Civil War Era costumes, or WWII Era Costumes. If you look a... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2011, 6:24 pm
At the beach. A sunny day.
Behold, what do we see. The poor remains of the gallant Peter Iredale.
A better, closer look. You can buy a poster or print of this picture here.
How she got here;
And why she’s important. (Not really, but any piece of education we can give is something.)
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Sep 4, 2011, 2:00 pm
Located on the trail up to Multnomah Falls. These are just before you get to the bridge over the upper pond.
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Sep 4, 2011, 12:53 pm
There isn’t much history behind Palmer Oregon. It’s about three miles up the hill from Bridal Veil. It was built at about the same time as Bridal Veil by the Bridal Veil Lumber Company. Before the saw mill was built, logs were sent down a log flume to Bridal Veil to be cut. After the saw mill wa... Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2011, 9:45 am
Brownsmead was never a large important city like many other Oregon ghost towns such as Sumpter, Greenhorn or Shaniko.
The area was first settled by Finnish immigrants in the 1870 to 1880 time frame and perhaps even earlier. An exact date is not known, but a town named Brody was created. The Finnish... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2011, 5:32 pm
The Crooked River Petroglyph is located in The Cove Palisades State Park just outside of Madras Oregon.
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Aug 16, 2011, 11:03 pm
Modern day Idanha is little more then a collection of houses and a gas station and quick stop market in the middle of nowhere these days.
Yet, if not for the political maneuverings of Portland railroad interests in the late 1800s, the town would have much more prominence then it does now.
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Aug 16, 2011, 10:43 pm
As best as I can tell, Geneva was a very short lived town. It sits south of Grandview and is just as isolated. Perhaps a building or two still exists behind trees or under brush. During the years of heavy rains before WWI, the area actually looked like it would support farms. Homesteaders still reli... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2011, 9:50 pm
Grandview is yet another town that only remains in name.
Remains of the town were visible up until about 1974, but everything except the cemetery seems to be long gone. But based on it’s location, it’s not hard to imagine why. Twenty miles or more north of Sisters, and about fifteen south west... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2011, 7:55 pm
Lamonta gained a post office September, 7th, 1898, and was plated April 1905. The Post Office closed in April 1918. The town was apparently named by Miss Kate Helfrich and is supposed to refer to nearby Grizzly Mountain. But in which language, is unknown. The town was built to serve the needs of are... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2011, 9:13 pm
Unfortunately it’s on private property and you can’t drive over it. But this bridge is located on a farm just outside of Mitchell, Oregon
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Aug 11, 2011, 8:51 pm
This is the second time I’ve been “through” Waldron. Luckily this time I was able to stop and get a couple of better pictures of the school house. Even then the road is quite dangerous to stop in as there are no turn out, and you’ll need to be on the look out for cars.
This building is mis... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2011, 12:11 am
Located about 15 miles north east of Mitchell, or 25 miles driving, Richmond is another town that is a shadow of it’s former self. Unlike most other Oregon Ghost Towns, it neither celebrates it’s heritage, nor seems to care about preservation. All the buildings in town look to be actively used, ... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2011, 9:58 pm
The Ghost Town of Winlock Oregon is named after Winlock W. Steiwer, who’s decedents still live in the area. His nephew was a United States Senator, while he served in the Oregon Senate. Winlock got a post office in 1888 due to his influence and was named after him. Unfortunately he became part the... Comment - Like
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Aug 2, 2011, 11:54 am
Most users don’t need to use this command, but it’s very helpful for web developers and network admins to troubleshoot issues with web sites.
This command is run via terminal.
On Leopard (10.6) and Snow Leopard (10.7):
(as root or admin user) dscacheutil -flushcache
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Jul 30, 2011, 6:51 pm
There isn’t much history that I’m able to find about Hamilton, Oregon. Oregon Geographic Names states that the town was named for J.H. Hamilton, a pioneer stockman who first settled here in 1874 and lived there until his death in 1909. It also mentioned that a lot of settlers visited the area to... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2011, 9:29 pm
The town of Ritter Oregon was built around McDuffee Hot Springs, later to be renamed to Ritter Hot Springs.
From “The Blue Mt. Eagle Nov. 23, 1772″
“William Neal McDuffee, an early packer between Umatilla and the John Day Valley mines, discovered the hot springs, named for him, on the Middl... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2011, 10:24 pm
You have to go out of your way to get to Galena. It’s not on any of the main roads, but it is one gorgeous drive.
This is the first “old” building you see coming in to Galena from the south side.
An old house there in Galena. Didn’t get a better picture as the owner was coming around the f... Comment - Like
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Jul 26, 2011, 11:52 pm
Another stop along the Sumpter Valley Railway, Austin was a major supply depot for other gold towns. At it’s height it had three saw mills, a large jail, and several stores and office buildings.
The white building in the trees is called “Austin House,” it was a long established hotel and sta... Comment - Like
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Jul 26, 2011, 9:50 pm
Tipton Station Historical Marker
“The war against winter snow was fought here with a wedge plow pushed by several engines. Rails had to be kept open to move logs to the sawmills.
Rails were laid into Tipton Summit from Baker by June 1904. The Agent at this full sized depot handled supplies and g... Comment - Like
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Jul 25, 2011, 11:09 pm
Greenhorn is Oregon’s smallest incorporated city, and also the highest at 6,300 feet. It has a full time mayor, but no “full time” residents. The town first appeared in the 1860′s but seems to haven’t to have been incorporated in 1891, nor a Post Office installed until 1902.
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Jul 18, 2011, 12:07 pm
One of the issues being reported with the Apple iPad is that it looses it’s wireless network connection and then has a very hard time reconnecting.
I ran across this bug in the field where I had 6 iPads scattered around a football field, and two (or more) Apple Airport Extremes connected in WDS mo... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 10:59 pm
One of the biggest pains in deploying MS Office to OS X in a business or education environment is making sure that the serial number deploys too.
To do this, you need to also deploy the following files:
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist
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Jul 11, 2011, 12:09 am
Mosier is a town of about 420 people between Hood River and The Dalles. The town is larger by far then it was in the mid-1800′s, but in many ways, it’s importance to Wasco County and Oregon in general is much less.
Jan Leininger did a great job of compiling the history of Mosier on The Wasco Co... Comment - Like
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Jul 9, 2011, 6:11 pm
Here is my complete list of Oregon Ghost Towns. I’m still adding to the list all the time. Please email rick@hamell.net if you’ve got updates for me.
Google Earth:Google Earth Oregon Ghost Towns (right click and save as)
Google Map: Google Map Oregon Ghost Towns
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Jul 1, 2011, 10:01 pm
DSL:
888-321-2375
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866-915-6188
DSL Tier2:
888-722-9337 x924
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Jun 22, 2011, 1:28 pm
Quick Look in OS X is an awesome feature. I’m constantly using it to check out PDF files without needing to open them.
But in some environments, it doesn’t make sense or causes a huge amount of issues.
At the terminal type; (as root or admin user)
defaults write “$3/System/Library/LaunchAgen... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2011, 10:27 pm
Equation Editor in Office 2008 should be installed by a default install of Office. If for some reason it is not, you’ll need to find your Office Disc and reinstall Office 2008 for Macintosh.
To check if Equation Editor is already installed, look in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office , the ... Comment - Like
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