Day: February 25, 2008

Photography

Tea Light Holders

Shelly

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This was taken indoors, on a table in front of the window. With onboard flash. Please to notice that the lovely back-lighting was not swallowed up by the aforementioned flash, nor is the foreground washed out. It’s not a great photo, but for illustrative purposes, it’s just about perfect.

The point? Somewhere, I came a cross a link to DIY Photography. There’s an article there on how to use a business card as a flash bouncer. I used one of those fake cardstock credit cards, because I didn’t have a business card handy. Any piece of heavy, white, stiff paper that’s roughly business card size will work.

You can use the same basic principle with any point-and-shoot camera, but you’ll have to either hold the card at an angle with your hand or use Scotch tape. Just don’t get it too close to a high-powered flash, especially if the paper has a plastic coating, because it might start to burn. Trust me on that one!

Crankypantsing

It’s Comcastic

Shelly

Our local cable provider sold out to Comcast. The switchover was at the beginning of January, and seems to have been pretty much a non-issue. Except! Now, I cannot log in to pay my bill online. My last cable bill (which is way overdue), was printed on Insight letterhead. It has my old Insight account number and contact information for, of course, Insight. None of which is valid for Comcast. I tried setting up an online account with Comcast, but their system doesn’t recognize my Insight account number.

WTF? I guess I’ll have to wait until I get home, and call Comcast. I have a very bad feeling that it will involve a voice response system that requires the inputting of an account number that I already know is not valid.

Comcast People, you really shouldn’t make it difficult for me to give you money.