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Upsampling Pictures

One of my co-workers yesterday, Henry, messaged me regarding the post about not being able to print 11×14’s, and suggested resampling.
Resampling can be crudely explained by taking one pixel and increasing the space it takes (example: 1 pixel will become 4).
A real world example is taking a picture from a cameraphone, which, when printed, [...]

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I’ve been assembling my 2007 Linisus Annual (a personal yearbook), and while planning it out with Blurb’s Bookmaker, I’ve come to a rather depressing realization:
I can’t print the bigger photobook that I wanted to this year.
Now, its not impossible, in any sense, to make the 13×11 photo book (fyi reference: a sheet of paper [...]

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VBA, meet your replacement, VSTO

As a former TA for Mgtsc 471 (Decision Support Systems), I can tell you that doing coding under Visual Basic of Applications (VBA) was probably one of the most practical tools I learned and taught during my University career. VBA is one of the few reasons why the Microsoft Office suite is so powerful and [...]

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[Digg it] 
There was an article posted on Monday July 17 on Computerworld that, in summary, stated that “The IT worker of 2010 won’t be a technology guru but rather a ‘versatilist.’” - more involvement with the finer points of presentation and people skills.
Talk about huge applause and backlash! Once this article was slashdotted and dugg, [...]

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iPhoto book review

[Photo] Even the box is nice!
My iPhoto book arrived by FedEx, inside some classic Apple packaging! In short, it is a high quality printed book. The book pretty expensive at $46 (Cdn) for 22 pages, but it is good looking and unique keepsake. Keep reading if you want to see the insides, and especially if [...]

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The Tea Place

Part of the offspring of the plentiful amount of specialty tea shops, The Tea Place is another great place to break out, relax and socialize. And since it is one of the only tea shops in the North-West side of the city, and it is also not another Cargo And James, we decided to pay [...]

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Crumpler Formal Lounge

EDIT (August 2nd, 2005): I happen to have an extra Crumpler Formal Lounge in Blue colour available for sale for $100 + actual cost of shipping. E-mail me if you are interested at jon_lin [a@] linisus [bot] com.

My Crumpler Formal Lounge arrived today, and I quickly abandoned my priorities to stuff it up full.
I was [...]

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