General news and updates

Posted on June 27th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: General.

This Weekend
Dawn & I got back in last night from a 3 day weekend in Dallas. Dawn had a bell ringing seminar/thingie there, so I tagged along just for the heck of it. She appeared to have a bit of fun ringing bells in a new tower.

While I was there I went to a photo class/safari at the Dallas Zoo. This was a 4.5 hour class led by the zoo photographer on how to photograph animals in the zoo, and special access to some of the animals. Here’s an Album of Pics

Sam
Sam the cat, as many of you know, has not had the best of luck with his health. A couple of years ago he went under chemo/radio-therapy for his messed up thyroid. The condition also messed up his heart, liver, and other organs. He’s been on a steady diet of meds and special foods since then. Last week Dawn brought him in for a checkup, since his belly has become distended. Basically they said he’s retaining fluids in the gut and that he is starting to experience organ failure. He’s not in distress or pain right now, just very mellow and laid back. They said we could expect him to pass on anywhere from 2-6 weeks. (But they’ve given him a year before for other things, and that was many years ago). We’ll see. We are just babying him right now and making him comfortable.

Camera
I sold a couple of my camera lenses to fund the purchase of a newer better lens. I now have a Sigma 70-200/2.8 EX. Heavy and bulky, but sharp. All the zoo pictures I took this weekend were with this lens.

Work
Dawn’s been working like a demon at the church getting used to her new job and getting the choir office resituated after the move during the construction going on. She seems alot happier at the new job then her old one.
Hopefully I will have some news in the near future about my job also. Good news. We are keeping our fingers crossed.

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Album Testing

Posted on June 20th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: Website Updates, Trips.

I’m testing and learning a new way of putting pictures online.

Here’s the first mini-album, basically a repost of the Italy- Pont De Angelo pics:

New Album

Second mini-album, pictures from Ely, UK in 2003:
Ely Day 1

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It’s coming together

Posted on June 16th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: Website Updates.

As you can see, the blog/site has a new format and is coming together.
With the new software and setup, I have the site arranged with about 6 different “looks”, which I will switch between occassionally to keep everyone from getting bored.

I’m organizing things and still tweaking a bit here and there. (adding pages, etc).

Also, this site might not look right on some older browsers (mainly older versions of Internet Explorer from 2000 or earlier). But that’s the way progress is. I am mostly (95% in my personal use, and about 40% in my business use) using Firefox now (free from Mozilla). It’s better than IE when it comes to viruses, spyware, security, and ease of use (tabbed browsing is the best!).

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New Blog Update

Posted on June 13th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: General, Website Updates.

I updated the blog software and am doing some other things behind the scenes to hopefully kill the spammer.

I’ll update the layout of this blog in the near future to something less generic and more pleasing to the eye.

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Comments Off

Posted on June 7th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: General, Website Updates.

I’ve temporarily turned off comments to the blog. I have to figure out a way to stop a comment/trackback spammer from using this blog. So far he’s been trying to get through with about 50-60 messages a day.

UPDATE: Comments are back on (hopefully). I’ve done some creative editing to block the spamming robot and it seems to be working. We’ll see.

UPDATE 2: Nope, the things I tried did not work. Got about 60-70 more spams since then.
I’ll be redoing the site sometime this week (or weekend) with a newer version of WP (the blogging software), and hopefully that will help.

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Dawn’s New Bird

Posted on June 6th, 2005 by Brian.
Categories: General, Personal Junk.

Dawn has a new bird. It’s a bird Tattoo.

Dawn's new tattoo
Click here for a larger version

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