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Yesterday a colleague and I were able to squeeze in a few minutes on the convention floor of Photoshop World. There were some interesting booths. I almost purchased a Lens Baby, but decided even the convention special was a little expensive for a toy lens. Most booths had a presenter wearing a microphone and talking about various products or techniques. The end result was the inability to hear anything. We squeezed close enough to hear some discussions about black and white conversions, Lightroom, and DNG. Joe McNally was demonstrating shooting techniques.

A friend of mine suggested I needed to watch the following video of Joe. What fun.

Since I don't watch much TV, I have to rely on other sources and the Internet to find out when new interesting ads are running. So tonight I was delighted to read about UPS' new campaign called “Whiteboard”.

This video from Common Craft does a great job at explaining RSS. It is so simple with just a camera and some hand props. No acting involved.

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PHPture is a free web-based viewer of your Aperture library. Looks like you just upload your entire library and it can be viewed online via PHPture. Now I just need a camera worthy of using Aperture with!

When I feel that my 6 or so domain names are expensive to renew or that my employers 300+ names are hard to manage, imagine what it must be like for Kevin Ham. Ham is the owner of many domain names, some, like 'greeting.com' that he paid a mere $350,000 for. That's right. That is no typo. He started buying domain names while he was in medical school and soon abandoned that to become a domain name tycoon. With over 300,000 domains, he seems to be succeeding. Most of these names are only placeholder pages for ads served up that are mildly relevant to the URL.

Apparently after harping on it's readers to make sure to backup, Business 2.0 magazine forgot to check theirs:

On the night of Monday, April 23, the magazine's editorial system crashed, wiping out all the work that had been done for its June issue. The backup server failed to back up.

I've learned it once or twice myself but a backup is only as good as the recovery. Go, back thyself up!