Archive for June, 2006

RasberryLeaf and another car crash

Friday, June 30th, 2006

My old friend rasberryleaf has a long running blog over at Hot Air. But she’s a bit down after a recent car crash, and I can totally sympathize (I’ve been in too many myself). But the odd thing is that one of the last times I saw her, we were driving between a wedding and [...]

A blogging proposition

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

I’m curious about how many of the people who pass through here actually even look at the posts. So, I have a proposition: leave me a comment, include a bit about what your blog is about, and I’ll swing by your blog, read at least one post, and if I have something nice to say [...]

Shooting in Raw

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

You should use your digital camera’s raw shooting mode. It’s a simple statement, but many don’t use raw mode while making photographs. Their primary excuse seems to be that using JPEG mode requires less space on (expensive) flash memory cards. But the simple fact of the matter is that unless you’re shooting in raw you’re [...]

Outage

Monday, June 26th, 2006

I apologize to anyone who had problems accessing the blog and related sites today.  Heavy rains in the area knocked out our Internet connection for about 6 hours.  We’re back up for now, but the rains are expected to continue, so please bear with us.