Curious how I spend my days at work? Well, my new article Two New Functions for Converting Datatypes and Changing Byte Order pretty much sums it all up. Create small applications in MATLAB and C to access file formats. Write tools to make working with those files easier. Write the occasional […]

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I just finished printing a set of images for the twelfth annual juried exhibition at the Griffin Museum. One or two other adventurous souls from the club are also submitting work. It would be a real coup to get into this show or the PRC’s member show. Meanwhile, as long as I […]

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From the PRC Boston’s survey on where we find information on photography and where we go to see or make it:
Afterimage
Artist Foundation Listserv
Art New England
Arts Media
Big Red & Shiny
boston.com
Boston Common
boston.citysearch.com
Boston Globe
Boston Herald
Boston Magazine
Boston Metro
Boston Phoenix
Boston University listings
Concierge
Gallery Guide
Improper Bostonian
Museums Boston
Panorama
Photograph
Providence Journal
Stuff@Night
WBUR
The Weekly Dig

AIPAD
American Photo
American Society of Media Photographers
Arlington Center for Arts
Art Institute of Boston
Association of […]

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So much to share . . .
Outsourcing: Finally an elected Democrat steps up to the plate on offshoring in the form of Max Baucus (D-MT) — from Top Outsourcing Info.

U.S. Senator Max Baucus, the top Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, said Friday he supports outsourcing white-collar jobs to […]

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In the spirit of kaizen (continuous improvement) and eliminating muda (waste), here is a mini failure analysis of the attack on my web site.
The effective cause of the failure was a SQL injection attack on my site, most likely caused by a worm/virus that I encountered on a public computer while using the Movable Type […]

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I just finished cleaning up some nefarious content from my web server, and I’m putting this post out there as a warning and an antiseptic for anyone who runs into a similar problem.
Parts of my site got hijacked, apparently by the same SQL injection attack that a machine in Delhi introduced. One prong of […]

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Today’s word of the day is medicolegal. Yesterday’s word: emo.

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I really admire those people who are willing to put their research (and by extension, their reputations) out there as they are working on it. I don’t get the chance to do much academic research these days, but I am preparing a presentation on contemporary photography for my little camera club. I’ll keep […]

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Lisa has been reading the new series in The New York Times on diabetes: Bad Blood. She has always taken an active interest in my chronic disease, but seeing the potential for (tragic) complications spelled out seems to be making her a little nervous for me. What a sweet girl.
As for myself, I’ve […]

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Cliopatria has chosen what they feel are the best history blogs in 2005.

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You can just bet your ass I’m going to get my hands on the new beta of Adobe Lightroom (

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Yesterday evening Lisa and I attended the opening of the Newton Camera Club’s “juried” exhibit at the West Newton Cinema. Go check it out if you can.
Update: Marshall posted some images of the show being hung. Two of my prints are in the foreground of one of his images.
Here are three of my […]

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Make some room on your busy social calendars (and on your sofa) tonight for David Sutherland’s new film Country Boys. Sutherland previously made The Farmer’s Wife, which is probably the most compelling documentary I’ve ever seen.
It’s been eight years since he presented us a view of contemporary rural America, and I’m fascinated to see […]

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“Just tell them you’re doing research for a book. That’s what we say in academia when we find ourselves getting more fixated on a topic than we probably ought.”
Leslie’s suggestion seemed just credible enough to work. But I’m not going to be writing any books on India. Maybe one day my memoirs […]

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The power went out in Milford ’round midnight, setting off loud sirens from security alarms thoughout the neighborhood and vaporizing a goodly portion of my forthcoming “Orientalism” post.
I was also fixing to mention in passing the new Amur Link highway, the recently-dedicated-but-yet-to-be-finished Russian link between St. Petersburg and Vladivostok that someday will beckon me. […]

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