Bungie will be setting up Ranked Matchmaking in Halo3 for Halloween, the gory details (pun intended) can be found on the Bungie Forums and it looks to be a great time.

I have some work piling up, but I hope to get a few hours in, hope to see everyone, Zombies beware.. its fraggin’ time.

Add me as a friend if ya like: mkeefe (I know, real original)

To celebrate the gustatory tendencies of the walking dead and to acknowledge All Hallows Eve, we’re launching a spooktacular, eerie-otic and cryptmongous playlist for 27 horror-filled hours, starting on October 31^st at 12:01am and ending at 3:00am on November 1^st because we love Hawaii Halloween too (Chicken skin kine). It is infection and it is the playlist of the Living Dead.

Earlier today I stumbled upon a post by Mike Chambers talking about Mozilla Prism and the fact Mozilla is referring to AIR as different and proprietary. Being an AIR developer myself I have to take offense to Mozilla, they are completely false by saying:

Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we’re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web.

It is very odd for Mozilla to strike Adobe down and say they are not building a cross-platform tool or even worse put them in the same box as Microsoft Silverlight. Not to mention how much Adobe has done for the open source community, Tamarin comes to mind.

I guess we will have to see how much pull Prism will have and maybe they will smarten up and not state false accusations of a tool that is doing exactly what Prism will.

Back to Mikes post though as insightful as it really is, the comments sort of prove that Adobe has left a lot of people confused with what Adobe AIR in fact is and how it is a very awesome technology.

Note: Adobe AIR is still in beta though, so I wouldn’t expect a huge media blitz just yet, but certainly when 1.0 is upon us these misconceptions will be cleared up.

The Nikon Coolpix Digital Field Guide is a wonderful companion for any Nikon Coolpix camera owner. In just a few minutes of reading I learned about settings on my camera that I didn’t even know existed. I liked the fact that in Chapter 1 the author compared various Coolpix cameras and I am sure others would think this could be annoying since you already own one. However I on the other hand found it nice to know what else was available. This book is so in depth the author even takes you through each screen and menu while explaining what they all do. This chapter alone proved to be more useful to me than the entire manual that came with the camera. Call me crazy, but being a photographer I prefer visual learning over long paragraphs of text.

No book about photography should be without a guide on composition and this book is no exception, the author explains the various rules you as the photographer should follow and adapt to. To me chapter 6 goes right along with the composition steps to include overall best practices of photography. Of course now that you have shot all these great photos it is safe to say you want them on your computer, well if that is the case than chapter 7 has all the information you need. The book ends off with a glossary of common photography terms that you will hear in various shooting locations.

Overall I have found this book to be very beneficial for not only Nikon Coolpix owners, but any photographers. You can take the concepts thoroughly explained within this book and adapt them to your own shooting habits, which in the end will make you a better photographer. I highly recommend this book and already have to my friends.