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How many photos have I taken with my camera?

How many photos have I taken with my camera?

Cameras wear out eventually, but a quality lens is a lifetime investment. This is an important concept to remember, the next time you’re tempted to buy an expensive lens. Go for it, it’s an investment! One of the things that wears out on your camera is the shutter.

Letter to Vid Kidz, 1982

Letter to Vid Kidz, 1982

The images below are a letter I sent to video game designers Larry Demar and Eugene Jarvis (aka Vid Kidz) back in 1982. It was written in WordStar on a homemade Heath H-89 computer running CP/M, and printed on an Epson MX-80 dot-matrix printer. Thanks to Larry for being

SCS-Draw: teaching the Kaypro to draw

Second City Software

SCS-Draw: teaching the Kaypro to draw

Most folks these days probably find it hard to imagine computers without graphics. But back in January of 1984, when Apple unveiled the original Macintosh in an unforgettable Super Bowl ad, most computers (of all sizes) only displayed characters on the screen, and the MacPaint program in the Mac was

Sightseeing around Seattle

Sightseeing around Seattle

I’ve had several people ask me recently for some suggestions about where to go sightseeing in the Seattle area. After going through the options a few times, I thought I’d write them down here for future reference, and I’ve included a few favorite photos I’ve taken

Power of Two

I’ve spent much of the last two days going through old photos, music and other materials, preparing for my brother Brad’s memorial service [http://mahugh.com/brad] this Friday. He died much too young, and quite unexpectedly, but the exercise of reviewing the artifacts of his life is

Shooting from a plane

Shooting from a plane

Back in 2006-2008, I was traveling a lot on business. During that time period, I traveled to 28 different countries (including repeat trips to many of them) in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, and I got into the habit of shooting photos out the window to

My Backup Process

My Backup Process

A few people have asked me about the backup process I use, so this post covers how I manage my backups. Two things to note: * This post is rather long and boring, unless you’re into this sort of thing. * I’m generally happy with my approach, but I have

Defender: The Last Word

Defender: The Last Word

This evening, I’ve checked an item off my to-do list that was over 30 years old: publish Defender book. Check. Done. Here it is: DEFENDER: THE LAST WORD * Introduction [https://www.dougmahugh.com/defender-introduction/] * Chapter 1: Getting Started [https://www.dougmahugh.com/defender-chapter01/] * Chapter 2: The Controls [https://www.

Kingo

This is the story of my first dog, a Collie named Kingo. It's from notes I took in my early 20s while Kingo was fresh in my mind, and I wrote it up years later for Mom and others who remember him. I finally finished this and posted

Lens lust in abeyance

Lens lust in abeyance

Ever since I got my first modern SLR, a Nikon N90s in 1998, I’ve been constantly lusting after more lenses. I’ve always known of one or two lenses that I was planning to rush out and buy the next time I had some cash burning a hole in

An Open XML Memoir

An Open XML Memoir

Working on the Open XML campaign was an amazing experience. I joined Microsoft in late 2005, thinking I was going to work as a SharePoint technical evangelist, but in my first month I found myself thrust into a role I never knew existed before, which had nothing to do with

Dough!

OK, this is something I’ve wanted to complain about many times. Today’s the day. Finally. My rhetorical question is very simple: why the hell do so many people call me “Dough”? Not out loud, mind you. Only once, in a Chicago courtroom long ago (don’t ask), can

Vista Includes Debug!

Vista Includes Debug!

<friday evening rant while waiting for traffic to die down> I have a favorite utility program, a piece of software that has been included with every shipping Microsoft operating system since the earliest versions of DOS. I'm talking about Debug, of course, the DDT of MS-DOS.

Programming in Structured English

Programming in Structured English

It’s a gray Saturday here in Seattle. We get quite a few of those. I was planning to take a hike today, but my goal wasn’t really the exercise. Hikes, like many things I do, are just excuses to go take some cool pictures. And on a cloudy

Creating a DOCX out of thin air

Creating a DOCX out of thin air

Suppose you were stranded on a desert island, and you wanted to create a document. A “Hello World!” document, just to let the world know you’re out there. And let’s say you’re going to send it to a bunch of people back at the office who are

Hurricane Katrina (part 2)

Hurricane Katrina (part 2)

This blog post contains photos I took when Megan and I returned to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in late September 2005. Our trip to the area two weeks earlier is covered in Hurricane Katrina (part 1). On our first trip to Gulfport right after the hurricane, we were mostly focused

Hurricane Katrina (part 1)

Hurricane Katrina (part 1)

This blog post contains photos I took while Megan and I were on the Mississippi Gulf Coast September 3-8, 2005, to help relatives who had lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. Our return trip two weeks later is covered in Hurricane Katrina (part 2). I wrote many long blog posts

The Ramsey Flying Bathtub

The Ramsey Flying Bathtub

This post is something I had on my website in 2005, which my Uncle Irv put together for helping to sell the "flying bathtub" aircraft that he had built. I've recently recovered it from my backups and restored it here for posterity. This unique and unusual

Fun With Math

This post is something I wrote in 1996 for my niece Madeline, who was 9 years old at the time. It was an attempt to convey to her some of the things I found interesting about numbers and arithmetic when I was her age. BIG Numbers There are big numbers,