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wow, you talk big from someone who programmed a text scroller.

Thanks for the plug! You're right, I did in fact author a very popular text scrolling applet almost a decade ago. In fact, I've written all kinds of applications, both big and small. How exactly is that supposed to be a bad thing?

and it looks like your photoshop skills are at about the same level as your programming skills.

Thanks again! Considering that I'm an accomplished programmer, I'll take that as a compliment. The vast majority of my Photoshop work, however, goes unnoticed. One of my hobbies is photography (you left out that link: my photography gallery), and I edit virtually all of my photos in Photoshop. It's usually just minor tweaks, such as re-cropping, rotating slightly to level a horizon, maybe adjusting the levels, saturation, contrast, applying a slight hue adjustment, maybe a mask her or there. Occassionally cloning or healing to remove a zit or freckle. I do very little "pure" Photoshop artwork, such as the example on the page you linked to, or of course, the graphics of my website itself.

But then again, you're an Anonymous Coward, so I don't know why I'm wasting my time with you.

wow, you talk big from someone who programmed a text scroller.
http://kombat.org/Programming/index.html

and it looks like your photoshop skills are at about the same level as your programming skills.
http://kombat.org/Photoshop/index.html

That's $25 _Canadian_ - I think that's like $1.75 US.

That joke would be funny, if the Canadian dollar weren't so close to actually passing the US dollar in terms of valuation. Check out this graph. When it reaches the top (1), they'll be equal. You can thank the US's outrageously irresponsible and uncontrollable borrowing and spending for causing such catastrophic devaluation of the US dollar.

Here's the link I think everyone wants. There are several more pictures of her in the "click NEXT" direction, but that link is the first and closest look at her in the series.

Cute, but ....ahhh.... probably a wee bit on the young side for most Slashdotters to be getting in line asking for dates. Chuckle.

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I'm just not sure if it would be legal here, as a defense of "the cop who pulled me over wrote 90 km/h on the ticket. Why are you charging me with 100 km/h?". Perhaps make the penalty to discourage challenging be part of the law instead of a workaround?

Both speeds are on the ticket. The officer documents what he actually saw, then has the discretion of charging you with whatever he wants. Here's a scan of one of my speeding tickets, with the two different speeds highlighted. He radared me actually going 107 km/h in an 80 zone (The code "R 107" highlighted in section "B"), but he only charged me for going 95 km/h (Section "A"). If I'd chosen to fight it, they'd have charged me with the original speed instead, and I'd probably have lost anyway. As it was, it was a relatively small fine, and no demerit points on my license.

I have done a fair amount of slow shutter stuff with my 300D and I don't see any problems with the results.

I have some photos on my site that I took with a borrowed Nikon D100, a top-of-the-line Digital SLR. You can see the gallery I'm talking about here. Virtually all of the nighttime photos had to be retouched in Photoshop, because they had tiny specks of color in the dark areas. I thought there was something wrong with the camera, or maybe just dust on the lens, but after talking to other digital photographers, I learned that this is a common symptom of long shutter speeds (I'm talking on the order of several seconds here) with digital cameras.

The specs are not visible in the images on my site because (a) I Photoshopped them out, and (b) they were probably too tiny to be seen when the images are scaled down so small. However, in the original, full-size versions of those photos, the specs are clearly visible. They look like stars, but they appear over top of dark areas where stars shouldn't be, like bushes or behind buildings.

You can see her in the photo, entering the house, presumeably to hide from the helicopter. I've highlighted the specific area of the picture and enlarged it a bit. See it here.

Does this change the legality of the photograph? Does this bolster the argument that it is an invasion of privacy?

I have a major problem with things like scrolling text java applets.

You mean like this one? :)

The problem is I see it too much.

What can I say - I wrote a popular applet. :)

It also says "geek." It was meant to convey that I strive for an effective balance of both. I'm curious what you think of my own site. It's primary goal is to showcase photography. Do you believe that the mechanism I use to achieve this (namely iframes) is efficient and effective, or is it overly gimmicky at the expense of usability? Do the graphics on my site detract from it's overall usability?

My point in asking this is that I believe that my site demonstrates an effective balance of both form and function, and that the two are not mutually exclusive. I strive to prove that content-rich sites needn't be boring and stuffy, and that flashiness isn't an automatic warning of a site devoid of content. What do you think? I'm sincerely interested in your opinion. At the risk of these posts being modded "off-topic," please feel free to email me at kombat@kombat.org.

It also says "geek." It was meant to convey that I strive for an effective balance of both. I'm curious what you think of my own site. It's primary goal is to showcase photography. Do you believe that the mechanism I use to achieve this (namely iframes) is efficient and effective, or is it overly gimmicky at the expense of usability? Do the graphics on my site detract from it's overall usability?

My point in asking this is that I believe that my site demonstrates an effective balance of both form and function, and that the two are not mutually exclusive. I strive to prove that content-rich sites needn't be boring and stuffy, and that flashiness isn't an automatic warning of a site devoid of content. What do you think? I'm sincerely interested in your opinion. At the risk of these posts being modded "off-topic," please feel free to email me at kombat@kombat.org.