Category Archives: News

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Film at Eleven

Back in the day when the News used to be on really late they’d say, “Film at Eleven.” Now the news is on all the time and they have the guy on the 4:30 news briefly tell you about what the 5:00 anchor person is going to tell you. Of course he or she will innevitably tell you about the 5:30 and 6:00 newscasters will be filling you in on. Apparently their news is unimportant to me now, but will matter in some time.

However, this post is not abou that, it instead is about camera film. This morning my friend Mike gave me an SLR camera. Not only that but it has a telephoto lens, which rocks my world. I’m stoked and can’t wait to use it. My only problem now is that I don’t have film. My only other problem besides that is that I need to re-learn how to use it. My only other only problem is that I can’t fix mistakes on a film camera like I can on a digital camera. This means that I’ve got one other problem: I’m going to spend a lot more money on film, developing and other expenses associated with film cameras. I’m looking forward to it because this could be a whole new side to camera work.

Oh, and the telephoto lens apparently also has some sort of macro focus length, the only problem is that you have to be about 3 feet away or more to get the macro to focus. I guess I’ll have to learn how to use that, too.

It’s a Pentax K1000, in case you care 🙂

A New Site is Coming

I’m bound and determined to update the look of this site after the turn of this year. I’ve come up with a good site prototype, but I had another idea just earlier that I’ll try to implement. We’ll see 🙂

In other news, pray for the folks who have been absolutely devastated by the earthquake and tsunamis. Right now.

OK.

Amen.

My Small Part

If you haven’t heard about the Tsunami in Indonesia and effecting large parts of the Indian Ocean, you can get an overview here. Nick Bradbury is offering 100% of profits until the end of the year to help relief. If you want to help support other ways, my buddy Tony and I have started givetwice.org [UPDATE: The server is down! Try using this link to order, temporarily], which will take the portion of the money that Amazon.com gives in revenue to site owners that are part of their associates program to several humanitarian organizations. It’s small, but my partner and I have talked and we want to get this up and running to help others out!

Google Favelet

Favelets are links that only contain javascript that manipulate the content of a page or might possibly do other cool things. You can find a good explanation and some other useful favelets at http://tantek.com/favelets/ However, I just created one that should hopefully be pretty useful. This one should insert the link count in Google for results. Yahoo! adds rank numbers into the HTML, but Google, for whatever reason does not. Hopefully this is useful:
Drag this link into your toolbar or favorites.

Please report any problems with this in the comments.

Windows Rehab

So, I’ve been using the iBook for all of my non-Windows required development. It’s painful. Well, no OS-X isn’t painful, it’s Windows that’ is painful. I keep hitting the crazy Alt key while I’m trying to do things. Why? Because the Apple key is right there on the iBook. The real problem is that I’ve developed new habits and now I’m starting to feel the consequences of my actions. I’m reminded of a statement Jesus once made: You can’t serve two masters. So, I’m having to try to straddle the fence, but it feels like it’s a bad plan. If only they made some sort of Microsoft Visual Source Safe plugin for OS-X (if they do, please post a comment).

Successful Christmas

Flickr Photo

Jessica and Abby

Today was a good day, lots of Presents were exchanged, but most importantly we had a good time with family and friends and enjoyed having Jesus’ birthday party 🙂 This is Jessica helping Abby with her first present in her stocking. More pictures to come.

Super Duper Good News

God, being the great, awesome wonderful God that He is delivered my Nikon 5700 today, the day before Christmas. It’s in GREAT working order and I’ll be pleased to upload more pictures soon to the site. This is the best Christmas Eve present I think I’ve ever gotten!

OK, I’m too excited to blog any more so I’ll go do something more constructive 🙂

Update: Here’s Abby!
Abby In the Tub