I now take a break from the day job to tell you about the night “job”.  I decided (and may regret later) to break-out some of the earliest code I ever wrote and play with it a bit…  Clearly bored and in need of some coding (waiting for contracts to be signed in day job, so no coding allowed yet).  When wife’s head hit the pillow at around 10:30pm last night, I started hacking…   The result (after about 3 hours of trying to understand HTML and CSS again) is a slight revival of the original crusty old Textual Abuse Page, and yes, of course, an iPhone version.  Same old ugly javascript code, updated slightly and a little less ugly through magic of CSS (and the nice open source iUI CSS and JS code on the iPhone version).   Will improve more on next sleepless night - betterworse language and better UI needed.

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Found him (dead) on a walk through the neighborhood…  Love those wings.

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I just uploaded a new gallery, Fauna, comprised of various images from 2007 of fish, insects and other animals.  My personal favorite is this one…

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Advertised as “first spring flowers” (in freaking January) at the local grocery store…

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More from the playground…

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We spend 45 minutes at the playground today.  I took these… 

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I admit it. I’ve looked at the Circuit City and Best Buy ads and considered the $699 laptops and other PC’s and thought that maybe that would be the way to go for my next computer. My Powerbook is aging (3 years) and the HP nc6400 that I do my paid work on is admittedly speedy (and as a 2.33Ghz Core2 Duo it should be). But I can’t do it. I’ll buy another Mac even if it means waiting until I can afford it.Tonight was just one more episode that showed why. Not that I needed another, especially after slowing myself down with Vista (new software project, gotta have it) and suffering through it’s idiotic and never ending User Account Control dialogs (”A program needs your permission to continue…”). Nonetheless…
I’m out of town staying at Mom’s/Grandma’s with my daughter and she and I just want to watch a bedtime movie. I eye the 12″ Powerbook or the 15.5″ widescreen display of the HP. Obviously X-Men 2 will look better on the big screen so we go with it. Put in the DVD, nothing happens. Ok, no problem, I go to the DVD in My Computer and launch from there. The preloaded DVD player from HP comes up and we wait for a a bit until we get the first error message. Then the next error message (same message, DLL xxx failed to initialize), then the next. [Read more →]

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10 hours spread over three days and at last the year-end purge is over.  I started with ~4450 photos of varying subjects, quality and likeability from the year 2007.  In the end (at least for now) I am down to ~1700 that I wanted to keep for one reason or another.  Now to actually sort, rank and organize…  ugh.  This was the first picture of the year (first that was kept at least)… … And this was the last of 2007 that was inexplicably deemed worthy.

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More cleaning…  This one from late July.  Now weeding through 68 different shots of the same bug in the earlier post today.

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