http://basepath.com Digital photography, computers, politics, and anything else that comes up. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:04:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://basepath.com/?p=10 I wrote this article 10 years ago, when I turned 50. (Yes, that makes me more than 50 now.) It's very widely read, and was even reprinted in the Singapore Business Times. Back then I was in the middle of what I call my wristwatch phase. Others call it a disease: WAS ("wristwatch ... http://basepath.com/?p=9 My title is a play on Why Johnny Can't Read, a 1955 book by Rudolf Flesch that argued that schoolchildren should be taught to read with phonics instead of look-say or whole language. (Here's a review of the book. It's priced at $3, but only if you go back in ... http://basepath.com/?p=8 (Article updated 8-May-2008 to reflect version 1.1 of the app: The Lighten checkbox makes images even lighter, and there's a new demosaicing method, explained below.) Most raw files contain data from a sensor arranged to record the image in a Bayer mosaic: Each pixel is a value of either red, green, ... http://basepath.com/?p=7 This is my new blog site, now running WordPress instead of my own software. The RSS feed should now work correctly, there's a search feature, and you can now leave comments. At the top is a picture-of-the-week, changed when I get around to it, that has nothing to do with any of the blog ... http://basepath.com/?p=6 This is a review of some digital photography web sites. I'll update it periodically. This is not a list of my favorite sites, although all of my favorite sites will eventually be on it—some of my reviews are negative. A few of the best sites are listed first, but other than that they're in ... http://basepath.com/?p=5