Now that I have this fancy smancy camera

Chad

I need to learn how to use the features of it.

I admit, it takes a pretty darn good picture in Auto mode, but I really want to explore the more creative side of picture taking.

So I’m looking for some sites that offer good resources for digital photography. Doing a search on the topic seems to bring up an endless list of sites that just sell equipment. If anyone knows of some site please post them in the comments.

Also, I’m looking for a different RAW converter. The software that came with the camera, just doen’t seem to be very good. I found BreezeBrowser, and that looks promising, but would like to hear any other suggestions.

And finally, I created a new album where I’ll post some digital photos, if anyone’s interested in seeing them.

I don’t understand grocery stores

Chad

When it comes to grocery shopping, I usually go between 9 and 10 at night. That’s the way I like it. It’s very seldom busy, and I can get in and out with ease. One of the only downfalls sometimes can be that they will only have one checkout lane open, which can really be the pits. Also at night they never have baggers, which is fine, cause I always like to pack my own groceries anyways. Alrght, on with the point.

We went grocery shopping this morning, during normal hours. For starters, it was much busier than I’m used to. So I’m already not liking it very much. Then they got people doing inventory with big stupid carts that take up 3/4 of the isle, which made navigation through the store a chore. Then to top it off, they had about 6 or 7 lanes open all with baggers, even the self-serve isles. So we had to tell the guy to back off and let us pack them ourself. Crazy I tell you!

Never again will I go during the day.

‘MYblog’ is coming along nicely

Chad

Again, it’s very slow at work, so I was able to spend a good amount of time on the code. I’ve done quite a bit of clean up already, but there’s still alot to go.

I’ve added a few new features also. One is called ‘Save As Draft’, which saves a partial or whole entry that won’t get displayed, allowing the user to come back and work on the entry and a later time, and publishing it when they wish.

There’s still quite a bit of work left before a release will be made, but I hope to be able to provide a demo username and password so everyone can see the backend features.

The current demo is available here: http://myblog.phpmp.com

Well, not yet

Chad

It’s Sunday morning, and the twins still haven’t arrived yet. I guess it was a false alarm. They say everything is different with while pregnant with twins. I guess they’re right! Which is OK. It’s given me some more time to prepare. And yes, I got the camera, I even got the one I really wanted, the Canon Powershot G3.

Will it ever end?

Chad

So I was going through the mail Saturday, when I come across a piece that looks like a card. When I opened it, 2 crispy one dollar bills came falling out of it. Well, that was interesting. That made me a little interested in reading what the card hard to say. To sum it up, basically it stated, The sometime within the next week I’m going to be contacted via phone to participate in a survey, and the money was an early thank you for helping them out. There was no description as to what the survey would be about.

Well, I say to you, thanks for 2 bucks, but I’m still not going to accept your call.

Strange timings

Chad

My Saturday got off to a rough start. Like my usual weekend morning geek sesssions, I had a nice big cup of coffee sitting on my small and cramped desk. As I’m picking it up to take a sip, I bumped the side of my monitor and spill about a quarter cup of coffee on my keyboard and mouse. This was a first for me. So after I finished cussing out my cramped workspace, I cleaned it all up, and proceded on with my day.

Once cleaned and still functioning I started my ‘blog surfing and while reading Scott’s site, read about how he experienced a similar disaster just a day earlier.

Must be something in the air, Scott!!!