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  

Family Social Networking Awkwardness

I really don’t like that my family has started venturing to the realm of the Internet. It was more than ok with they found their way to Amazon.com to spend $1000s per year on books and other crap they don’t really need, and it was even ok when they began e-mailing me (once they figured […]

RT: Frustration of the Imagination

It is really annoying when you try to think of something new and realize that you can’t conceive anything outside of what has been created before and then you feel certain that there is nothing new an interesting in the world, only to have the rational components of self to tell you that there must […]

Bug Bothers

I am trying to figure out what this particular creature is. There was a group of about 10 or so on a grape leaf in the yard. They do not fly, swarm or even move particularly quickly. When in confinement, they do not look for a way out, they become really still, but once out, […]