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• Vivian Maier

  By GrumpyTechie on January 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  I just discovered this blog, which posts old photographs taken by Vivian Maier from the 1950’s to the 1990’s. Well worth checking out.

• Extreme Photography – Part 4 – Eyes

  By GrumpyTechie on January 2, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Every kid with a Canon seems to be taking closely cropped photos of their eyes these days, but these are something else.

• Extreme Photography – Part 3 – Chernobyl

  By GrumpyTechie on December 31, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I just keep stumbling on these articles, although this one doesn’t have the same entertaining tone as the other ones preceding it.

• Extreme Photography – Part 2

  By GrumpyTechie on December 30, 2010 • ( 0 )

  From the guys at the Brooklyn Space Program, I give you this video.

• Extreme Photography – Part 1

  By GrumpyTechie on December 29, 2010 • ( 1 )

  Now that I’m getting more into photography again after a one year break, I constantly find myself looking for more extreme techniques. This one has to count as the extremest one yet.

• Interesting New Work

  By GrumpyTechie on November 21, 2010 • ( 0 )

  It’s interesting to just lean back and watch what kind of curve balls life throws you. About a month ago, I was sitting in my office, minding my own business and idly configuring a couple of IP-based video cameras. Suddenly,… Read More ›

• The Unified RFID Theory

  By GrumpyTechie on October 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Yesterday, while sitting on the bus late for school, I had an epiphany.  It came to me as I was watching people use the RFID bus card system that’s in place on all public transport in the greater Helsinki area…. Read More ›

• Professional Rack Installation = 8 Hours of Labeling

  By GrumpyTechie on February 24, 2010 • ( 0 )

  DELL Server im Rack Originally uploaded by BlaM4c Last week I spent close to 8 hours printing and applying labels to different cables in a packed and live rack. And it didn’t help that the rack runs our virtual servers,… Read More ›

• More Bloody Printers

  By GrumpyTechie on December 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Today I got into another argument with a network printer. I installed a new computer at a remote location, and they had their own Samsung network printer that I had to connect manually. Most people that aren’t familiar with Samsungs… Read More ›

• The Magical “No HTTP-traffic” CAT5 Cable

  By GrumpyTechie on December 2, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Now I’m really starting to doubt myself. For 2 weeks have I been troubleshooting a Vista machine that just got connected to the network. I’ll start to from the beginning; 2 weeks ago we had a contractor add a double… Read More ›