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As it stands the Drupal FeedBurner module is not yet ready for the 6.x series. A simple workaround is to redirect Drupal feed requests (default: /rss.xml) to FeedBurner based on the useragent using Apache's mod_rewrite. The trick is to redirect all requests for the feed, with the exception of those made by the FeedBurner bot, to the Burned feed. You can repeat this for as many feeds as is necessary. Thanks to ckdake for the tip.

Example .htaccess snippet:

# Rewrite feed URL to FeedBurner
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner [NC]
RewriteRule rss\.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/johndbritton [L]

The Gallery team has announced the selected students for the 2008 Summer of Code on GMC (gallery.menalto.com). I am one of two lucky students to be selected. The other student, Paul Hinze, will be working on Facebook/Flickr Style Image Region Based Tagging.

My application to Google's 2008 Summer of Code program has been accepted, see below:

I recently purchased a Canon PowerShot G9 digital camera. It has quite a few more features than my previous camera (Canon SD300) at the cost of a somewhat larger size. Features worth mentioning: RAW support, jog dial interface, quick startup time, 12.1MP, RAW+JPG shooting mode, and auto-bracketing. So far I've only come across one minor drawback, you can't save RAW images in AUTO mode.

Over the weekend Olivia and I took a walk up to Prospect Park to enjoy the beautiful weather and take a first stab at High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging. I'm not a digital photography expert, but after some research I had an idea of what to do.

Using the auto-bracketing feature on my shiny new G9 I took three shots in succession at different shutter speeds:

After a little Photoshop magic:

Overall I'm satisfied with the outcome of my attempt. If you view the high-res version you will notice that the photo is quite blurry. This is most definitely because I shot it without a tripod.

Not too long ago I attended Drupalcon Boston. While I was there I realized that as an internet professional I needed to revamp my online image. My meek homepage has remained fairly unchanged since 2005, serving only as a contact reference. I've been working on quite a few projects that may be of interest to some of you, so keep an eye out here. I make no promise as to the frequency of updates but I will be sure to produce quality content when I do decide to share.