Thursday, April 10, 2008

Who uses my Creative Commons Flickr Photos?

Over 130 websites are using some of the photos I released under a Creative Commons license and are hosted on Flickr

Sites include:

huffingtonpost.com
wired.com
nerve.com
NHPR
motherjones.com
prospect.org
TheAtlantic
wikipedia.org

As well as a bunch of smaller, mostly political blogs.

The most popular photos are those of Hillary Clinton and John McCain from when there were campaigning for the NH Primary.

I keep a complete list of sites here:
Complete list of Who Uses My Creative Commons Flickr Photos

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Trevor's Pbars routine





Trevor's Pbars routine

Originally uploaded by marcn



Now that Flickr has added video support, here is Trevor's parallel bar routine from last weekend's NH Championships, Level 6

See his high bar routine here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/2400001976/

Thursday, April 3, 2008

How to connect a Samsung Flipshot U900 to Ubuntu/Linux

First purchase a USB cable that works with the Samsung Flipshot U900 -- I ordered one from 3GCables.com for $8.95 (and $6.95 s/h)

The default setting for the phone was to ask how it should present itself when connected via USB. The options are "Ask on Plug", "Copy To/From Card", "Sync Music" or "Modem"
Since I'm always going to use it like a usb-storage device, I changed it to always use "Copy To/From Card".


  • 5. Settings & Tools

  • 8. USB Auto Detection

  • Change to "Copy From/To Card'.



Now you can copy files to /media/disk. My top level directory looks like this:


$ ls /media/disk/
my_files my_flix my_music my_pix my_sounds

Monday, March 24, 2008

Comparing the Samsung Flipshot U900 with a DSLR

This weekend I upgraded my phone to a Samsung Flipshot U900 which has a 3 megapixel camera. Now I have no excuse not to have a camera with me at all times...

Here is a comparison, as you can see the DSLR is much nicer, but the U900 takes a reasonable photo.

Souhegan River upriver from Wildcat Falls (samsung flipshot phone)

Souhegan River upriver from Wildcat Falls (Sony DSLR Alpha-100)

Turkey tracks



Turkey tracks

Originally uploaded by marcn




Griffin, Trevor and I were hiking over on the other side of Wildcat Falls and found these turkey tracks down by the Souhegan River.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Lunar Eclipse



Lunar Eclipse

Originally uploaded by marcn



From Merrimack, NH using a Sony A-100 DSLR and a 75-300mm Minolta lens.

Sunday, February 3, 2008