Firefly’s been gone since last Friday on a course or seminar or something, so I’ve had to amuse myself the last few days. Somehow in the last 4 days I’ve ended up for three of them in the municipal pool down the street. Today I managed 11 laps of the 25 meter pool (that’d be […]
Adventures in a Pool Read Post »
A while back we had been thinking that a trip down the Oregon coast would be nice…. I remember going to the beach on a holiday trip with my parents ages ago and it being great fun. A couple of nice places to visit if I ever do end up going are Silver Falls State
Places to go in Oregon Read Post »
Found an interesting looking Black and White Conversions courtesy of Matt Greer.
Black and White Conversion Technique Read Post »
UFies.org is currently down due to co-lo provider issues. Nothing I can do 🙁 When it’s up, it’s up. Probably another rogue backhoe. Update 12:00 – Back up now…
UFies.org Down due to network Issues (And Now Back Up) Read Post »
Thanks to a post by Sema regarding the List of updated groups not appearing in Firefox 2.0.0.4 when using Google Reader. The fix is to add an exception rule “@@|http://www.google.com/reader/api/*” into AdBlock Plus (if you have it installed) as one of it’s default rules stops the google reader from running it’s javascript. I was pulling
Google RSS Reader Issues Solved Read Post »
Great quote found at Mask Photo: Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph. If it was, they would have more to say. -Anonymous
Grrr….. while I appreciate that Apache 1.x is old and busted and it’s long past due to have converted to the new hotness of Apache 2.x, it really sucks to have your server’s OS distribution simply deprecate the package and disable the ability to build it as well as anything that depends on it. About
Stupid Gentoo Linux and Deprecation of Apache 1.x Read Post »
Today after the tire changing incident, I wanted to do some “studio” work with a nice flower Firefly got from my parents over the weekend. I have wanted to do the classic style still life because I could see it in my head, and wanted to see how hard it would be to create that
Still Life Black and White Experiment Read Post »
Mondays are a drag to begin with, especially after a weekend after a 3 day week. Monday mornings are super-extra-double draggy when you start driving off to the train and hear an odd “wappa-wappa-wappa” noise coming from the car. Pull over (about 50 feet from the driveway is as far as I got) and found
Monday Flat Tire Fun Read Post »
Now this is brand commitment… this guy got a tattoo of the optical layout of the Pentax 71mm Limited Edition Prime Lens. Yowza. I like cameras too, but I don’t have quite that much love for them 🙂 Course, at least this isn’t a big logo or something 🙂
Pentax Commitment in Tattoo Form Read Post »