Back in the Saddle

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After the disastrous incident with my old digital camera a few months ago, I've been planning my return to the world of photography. Thanks to the generous holiday assistance of several people, I'm now gladly back in the game with a new camera.

Because my deceased camera still had living batteries and I still had a few (now very clean) accessories, and because I had been quite pleased with the quality of my old Dimage Xi, I decided to buy the next incarnation of the same camera. The newer Dimage Xt is very similar, but with a few nice upgrades. I'll write a review and comparison when I've had a chance to properly compare the two.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the new camera via Christmas gifts and let the hilarious jokes concerning my new camera and washing devices of all kinds begin.

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filmgoerjuan -

http://blog.filmgoerjuan.com/index.php

Congratulations on returning to the world of digital photography!

(and remember, *cameras* are "point and shoot", *clothing* is "wash and wear"...it's very easy to get the two confused)

Nick Burka -

http://gallery.whitelands.com

And now if he'd only turn off the dog-barking/cat-meowing sounds whenever it focuses or takes a picture.

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My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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