Tilt shift, a Flickr phenomenon 2006 03 01

I read an article on Boing Boing the other day about a technique called "tilt shift", it's basically a method for creating a lens blur to mock depth of field on an image that wouldn't normally have it. For instance, this photo has a strong depth of f

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How to talk to Flickr using ColdFusion 2006 02 28

We all know about Flickr, or at least we all should and if you don't, it's time to catch up. Flickr is an incredible photo sharing and community tool created by the minds of Ludicorp. Luckily, they decided to share this great tool with us in the form

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How I built the front-end to this mess 2006 02 26

So as my first real post here I figured I would explain how I put this site together. To start, I'll talk about the elements that I integrated from work others have done. I wasn't interested in using many graphics, but still wanted to give the illus

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A new look to Nicora.net! 2006 02 24

This is a placeholder blog post until I get all the bugs on here worked out. Feel free to look around while I tidy up. The blog section will feature all new posts, but the music section still has the same songs, and I hope to update more often. The p

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