New Cameras

In March of 2002 I bought a Nikon D100 6.1 megapixel Digital SLR camera and lens as an uber cool 18th birthday present to myself. In nearly seven years, I've collected 11,828 digital photos with my D100. The math equates to about $0.25 per shot.

I did not know it while shooting, but on December 28, 2008 at 5:50:55 PM, I used my D100 for the last time to take a very fitting photograph of trailing car lights and a fading sunset over Cook Inlet.

On January 15, 2009, I took the very first photos with my new Nikon D90 12 megapixel Digital SLR camera and Nikon 18mm - 200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR-II Wide Angle Telephoto Zoom-Nikkor lens. Together, the ensemble sings sonnets that make me wonder why I waited so long to upgrade. Moments later, those initial shots were followed by the first of many with a new Canon PowerShot SD 880 IS 10 megapixel digital sub-compact camera.

The two new cameras with extra batteries, a Hoya 77mm Super HMC UV(0) filter, a Nikon Speedlight SB-800 flash, and a Nikon ML-L3 wireless remote were altogether only 2/3 of the cost of my D100 setup. I send a special thanks to photographer Ken Rockwell for his insightful reviews of these products.

I'm super excited to capture many more great photos with my new equipment. One particular scene I've been developing in my mind for years came to fruition this evening on Home Depot hill in Wasilla, overlooking the Parks and Palmer-Wasilla highway intersection. The other shot in this series, at Trunk Road overlooking the Parks Highway and Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, is available in my photo gallery.

Disable case-sensitive find in Firefox for Mac

It seems that Firefox 3 for Mac shipped with at least one annoyance: a case-sensitive Quick Find setting turned ON by default.

I searched the about:config advanced Firefox settings for a fix; these steps disable the annoyance and return the find feature to its proper, case-insensitive state:

1. Open a new tab in Firefox, type about:config into the address bar, and press return on the keyboard.
2. Type case into the filter field.
3. Double click on the preference accessibility.typeaheadfind.casesensitive.
4. Change the value from 1 to 0 and choose OK.
5. Close the about:config tab and test your newly improved case-insensitive Quick Find on any page.

Click the screen shot thumbnail above to see the appropriate final setting.

[EDIT]
My incredibly intelligent brother recommends disabling the case sensitivity by pressing Command+F and un-checking the obvious "Match case" box.