The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny

Aesop Fable:

A Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the Lamb himself his right to eat him. He then addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf: "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf: "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." On which the Wolf seized him, and ate him up, saying:
"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.

Another New Toy - Chumby

It's an "Internet Player". That means it will display widgets written in Flash-Lite.

They allow you to embed HTML in a web page (such as a blog) that represents what widgets you have on the physical Chumby, creating a virtual Chumby.

www.chumby.com

Untitled

I'm writing a test post in Zoho.  This is an application suite that uses Google Gears for offline web apps.

Back From China

3 weeks
35 pounds of camera gear
in a sling backpack
100 degree weather
100% humidity

resulting in

lost 3 pounds
~3800 photos
24 gigabytes

See Flickr for the shots as they trickle through my workflow.

Color Enhancement & Sharpening - Part 3

Part 3 covers the use of curves and shows a different type of curve fot the color enhancement.

This one is hosted on Google videos since Youtube has a 10 minute length limit. Sorry to those who have subscribed to my Youtube channel. I'll try to figure something out.