Anna and I have received several invitations to parties with free booze and food. Phone calls, emails, coupons, and trinkets in the mail. We are being courted. The gravy train that was so enviable these last 5 years is starting to grind to a halt. Fighting over scraps, cards are offered at the slightest provocation. …
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With my new toys, I’ve been producing a lot more photos. This isn’t a problem at home – I’ve got plenty of storage & backup space, desktop hard drives are huge and cheap. But they don’t help me much two weeks into a trip. I’ve got a few options: Laptop route I’ve been thinking about …
I upgraded to Gallery 2.1 R2 and implemented the RSS feeds. The old feed address (http://www.chrisnelson.ca/photos/rss.php) should work by forwarding to the new feed (http://chrisnelson.ca/photos/main.php?g2_view=rss.SimpleRender&g2_itemId=7). If you have any troubles with it, please let me know.
(photos can be found here) As mentioned before, I ordered a new camera & lens. I wanted something of decent optical quality, small (in relative terms), cheap (again, relative), and flexible. I think have come pretty close to these goals with this camera (Canon Rebel XT aka 350D) and lens (Canon 17-85 IS USM lens) …
Holy crap: Andrea Suastegui had been suffering flulike symptoms Saturday when she and her husband drove to the FruterÃa El Palsa Market on 25th Street near Broadway and purchased prescription medicine without a prescription… After the drug was administered with a syringe, the woman almost immediately went into medical distress. Police and paramedics were called …