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Continue reading →: COBA Meeting Location in 2009
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at our final COBA meeting of 2008. Tomorrow night’s presentations by Oliver and Edward are going to be great; plus, it’s our end-of-the-year Holiday party! Longtime COBA members will remember we had to change locations in 2006 after the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center changed…
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Continue reading →: Backup Strategy
2010-12-29: I’ve updated my backup strategy post here. I’ve been making backups since I started using computers back in the early 1980s. Software at the time came on cassette tape and 5 1/4-inch floppy disks before transitioning to 3 1/2 inch floppies and CD-ROMs. When my love affair with the…
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Continue reading →: COBA Holiday Party Reminder
This is a reminder that the final meeting of the year and holiday party for COBA will be held this Wednesday. Bring snacks, food, and drink and learn about bird photography from Oliver Klink and dance photography calendars from Edward Casati.
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Continue reading →: Palm Content and Access Reunion Party
As is traditional this time of year, the former gang from Palm’s Content and Access division got together for its annual holiday party. Big thanks go out to Fanny for continuing to round up the troops. This year, we had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in Palo Alto. We had…
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Continue reading →: Bird Photography, Creating a Dance Calendar, and COBA Holiday Party
The Holiday Party and final meeting of 2008 for the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, December 10, 2008, in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm. Bird Photography Why photograph birds? Birds are beautiful creatures. They are also interesting.…
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Continue reading →: Hold the Noise: Hands on with the Canon 5D Mark II
At last night’s COBA meeting, Jim Rose brought with him a production Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the hotly anticipated replacement for the original 5D. I was very interested in seeing the high ISO noise characteristics of the new camera, and it did not disappoint. Jim asked that I not…
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Continue reading →: 5D Mark II with Jim Rose, Political Photography Part II: Jared Polis, and What Would You Invent?
The November meeting for the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm. Canon 5D Mark II with Jim Rose Jim Rose from Canon U.S.A. has received his sample EOS 5D…
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Continue reading →: Election Night with Jared Polis
On Tuesday, Jared, his staff, friends, and family, finally saw the ultimate result of their hard work and sacrifices for the past year and a half as he was elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives next year. Jared won by a convincing margin, 60% to 36%,…
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Continue reading →: Election Day Morning and Afternoon
Today is finally election day! For Jared, it’s been one and half years of hard campaigning. Today, he did his final Honk and Wave in Boulder before heading to Longmont, Colorado, to help out with Betsy Markey’s campaign. Heading down to downtown Denver for the Democratic Election Party. So, without…
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Continue reading →: Final Hours Before Election
Here’s a random set of photos from the last day before Election 2008. It’s been a long campaign and everyone is ready to move on with the next project. For Jared, hopefully that will be a Congressional Seat in Colorado’s District 2. For me, it’ll be back to the Bay…
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