The Deed, It Has Been Done

After much wrestling with self and encouragement from friends (do you have to push a guy who is already about to jump?), I have decided to buy the Nikon D90 with 18-105mm lens. I ordered it last night from Amazon.com. It is on its way here now via UPS Next Day service. I feel that […]

Obsessing over Nikon D90

Remember a blog entry a few weeks ago, one in which I mention that there is certain criteria for getting an upgraded body? Well, I haven’t met that criteria, but it doesn’t stop me from wanting to upgrade. I have had several situations in which having the different body would have helped me get a […]

RT: Password Length

If you have a password that is so long that you sometimes lose your place and have to start over, the password may be too long or too complex.

Birth In The Internet Age

About 7 minutes ago my step sister gave birth to a baby. The interesting thing about this is that with the empowerment of a BlackBerry, all of her friends and family have been kept in the loop on the events of the day since about 4am, when she happily announced that contractions suck, but epidurals […]

Titling Photographic Works

One of the most difficult things I have found is giving titles to photographic work. When I upload to Flickr I tend to do it all as a batch in a rather unpolished kind of way. I don’t tag and I don’t title. It’s just there, for the taking. Some of my photographs I have […]

Difficulty In Taking a Family Portrait

I believe portrait photography to be the hardest form of photography there is, now imagine applying that principle to 21 people, plus one dog. First of all, in this situation, I find that the more legs a subject has, the more cooperative they are. There are many things to consider when taking a portrait, the […]

Inconvenient All-in-one Distance Education Platforms

I am beginning to hate Blackboard for many things. First of all, most courses are based on these things called “due dates”, which I can only assume were never used before distance education, since Blackboard doesn’t seem to support them. Nowhere on an assignment in Blackboard is there a listing of a due date, or […]

Florida Predatory Stink Bug

We have an ID. It is a Florida Predatory Stink Bug. Copyright © 2006 Charles Weber http://www.entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/e_floridanus.htm http://bugguide.net/node/view/2716