Adam Fields (weblog)

This blog is largely deprecated, but is being preserved here for historical interest. Check out my index page at adamfields.com for more up to date info. My main trade is technology strategy, process/project management, and performance optimization consulting, with a focus on enterprise and open source CMS and related technologies. More information. I write periodic long pieces here, shorter stuff goes on twitter or app.net.

12/25/2004

In praise of game sequels

Filed under: — adam @ 10:50 am

I keep hearing about how most of the good video games this year were sequels — Prince of Persia 2, Halo 2, Jak 3, Ratchet & Clank 3, Doom 3, GTA 5, Half-life 2, Viewtiful Joe 2 … the list just keeps going on. Even the ones that weren’t strictly sequels were franchise continuations instead of new worlds — World of Warcraft, every Star Wars game, the Bard’s Tale remake, a few LOTR games.

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Good firefox tweaking reference

Filed under: — adam @ 12:34 am

Some of these have shown up elsewhere, but this is a good, concise reference for lots of preferences you can change to speed up firefox.

http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/tweaks/firefoxtweak/4.html

Digital photo noise reduction by calibration

Filed under: — adam @ 12:32 am

The core of this technique is to take a black frame (with the lens cap or a dark towel over the lens) at exactly the same ISO and exposure time settings, then subtract that frame from your image. This should give you a much clearer image with much less noise. This technique has been floating around for a while, but this is a very clear description of the process, plus a very strong background explanation of why it works and what kinds of noise it doesn’t fix.

http://www.photo.net/learn/dark_noise/

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